Nayef Aguerd - signed (30m)

[Coffee]

"OS West Ham United complete Nayef Aguerd transfer West Ham United are delighted to announce the signing of Morocco international defender Nayef Aguerd. The 26-year-old joins the Hammers from French Ligue 1 club Rennes on a five-year contract and adds further quality and depth to David Moyes‚Äô squad. He will wear the No27 shirt. Aguerd has enjoyed two impressive seasons with Rennes, enhancing the reputation he established at FUS Rabat, Dijon and with the Moroccan national team. Now, the left-sided player will continue his career in the English Premier League, where his combination of talents will see him provide strong competition for Craig Dawson, Issa Diop, Angelo Ogbonna and Kurt Zouma. ‚ÄúI was really excited when I heard about West Ham United's interest,‚Äù said Aguerd, an impressive individual who speaks fluent French, English, Arabic and Spanish. ‚ÄúWhen I heard about it, I knew I needed to go to the Premier League, because it‚Äôs a dream for every player. ‚ÄúWest Ham is a historic Club. I saw a few of their games this year, and I saw the fans and the atmosphere were fantastic, with the bubbles! ‚ÄúI talked with the manager and he showed me that he was very interested, so it was easy to choose to come to West Ham.‚Äù Aguerd was born in the city of K?©nitra in the north of Morocco into a footballing family. His father played in the Moroccan top-flight, while his uncle Abdelmajid Bouyboud was capped 34 times and appeared at the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals ‚Äì an achievement his nephew could emulate in Qatar later this year. As a boy, Aguerd represented local club KAC of K?©nitra before being scouted and recruited to the national Mohammed VI Football Academy in the capital city of Rabat, where he spent four years playing alongside the likes of Sevilla striker Youssef En-Nesyri. In 2014, aged 18, he joined leading club Rabat FUS, making 12 appearances in his debut season and attracting the attention of a host of leading Spanish clubs. After bulking up and working hard on his game, Aguerd then inspired FUS to their first-ever Moroccan Championship in May 2016, scoring a vital goal against Ittihad Tanger that all but clinched the title. After scoring in the 2017 CAF Champions League and impressing regularly for FUS over the next two seasons, Aguerd joined French Ligue 1 club Dijon in 2018. Two encouraging seasons for Les Rouges led to a transfer to Rennes, where he started the club‚Äôs first-ever UEFA Champions League match at home to Russian side Krasnodar and featured in four of six group-stage fixtures in the autumn of 2020. Aguerd has thrived at Roazhon Park, making 66 Ligue 1 appearances and helping Rennes qualify for Europe in each of the last two seasons. He scored twice in seven UEFA Europa Conference League appearances and started 31 Ligue 1 games as Rennes finished fourth last term. At international level, the defender was capped at U20 and U23 level before making his senior debut against Albania in August 2016. Two years later, he helped Morocco win the African Nations Championship on home turf. He is now a regular in the Atlas Lions‚Äô starting XI with 25 senior caps and was an ever-present in Morocco‚Äôs successful 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign and run to the 2021 CAF Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals. Everyone at West Ham United would like to welcome Nayef to London Stadium and wish him all the best for his career in Claret and Blue."

[Norflundon]

"Other than a better range of passing there is absolutely no difference between this lad and Diop. Both can look good for 80+ minutes of a game but he can’t stop making ridiculous mistakes. He made 2/3 against Bournemouth we just got away with them, he got sent off against Chelsea with a ridiculous challenge, he made a couple against Luton that we got away with. If you drop howlers against Man City they will punish you and they did. I personally wouldn’t have him anywhere near the team at the mo and I would bite the hand off any Saudis that want to sign him for anything near what we paid. I know it’s not fashionable to say this but Maguire is miles better than Aguerdin fact it’s not even close"

[Nick QQQ]

He is shit positionally though.

[Manuel]

"COYI - You are one creepy, oddball cսnt, not to mention having a complete lack of self awareness since you never get anything right, yet here you are again. Why don't you just fuck off."

[Manuel]

"COYI - You are one creepy, oddball cսnt, not to mention having a complete lack of self awareness since you never get anything right, yet here you are again. Why don't you just fuck off."

[Iron Duke]

It seems to have become fashionable to blame Aguerd for everything. In reality it was a great piece of skill by Alvarez. But both Ward-Prowse and Benrahma had a chance to close him down but didn’t.

[Come On You Irons]

"You only have to look down a few threads to see me praising JWP on his thread, you fool."

[twoleftfeet]

You are always quick to complain COYI yet we never hear from you when he plays well. I think you are a bit of a cսnt.

[Come On You Irons]

It's time Aguerd was dropped after yet another howler gifted Man City their second goal today. I have never known a defender to be so overrated by so many of our supporters. The player is a complete disaster positionally. Time for Mavrapanos.

[Eerie Descent]

"If you read below, feet, you'll see that a load of people were making excuses for his many, many bad games as being because of the manager. I know you're the thickest, most useless cսnt on here, but I'm here to help."

[twoleftfeet]

What the fuck has Moyes management got to do with Aguerd having a below par game? Fuck me this site is full of retards.

[Vexed]

"I don't even want to think about another season with this fucking useless cսnt in charge. Even if we win this Europe thing, which we won't, he should fucking fuck the fuck off, the fucking cսnt. I can't do another season of Moyes."

[Eerie Descent]

"If Moyes doesn't leave in the summer, what on earth do we do about this lad? He clearly ain't going to be able to play consistently well under this manager and style of play. Never in a million years."

[Eerie Descent]

"I'm not hanging him out to dry, I'm saying I was expecting a lot more for £35mil. Hopefully he starts showing it soon. Right, I'm off out. Enjoy the weather."

[Side of Ham]

"Never said you couldn't ED just saying there's a certain individual who's now managing incompetent international footballers, and recent history has shown us that most of them revert back to competent internationals when asked to play football rather than anti-football. Focus should be concentrated on the cause not the outcome.....for all you know the new blokes may be having a deliberate mare due to not taking to the set up here.....his set up breeds a lack of confidence they may be confidence players.....how do you expect them to gain confidence when they are not having much of the ball? You want to hang out to dry players who are being asked to give the ball up to fit his way of playing, a set up we all fucking detest......if you are professional in anything you want to do things the correct way Moyes is asking them to be unprofessional by asking them not to worry about having the ball......it's criminal to the game...."

[Eerie Descent]

"The manager is shit, but you could have driven a fucking oil tanker between our centre backs the other night, are you telling me two £30mil+ international centre halfs in their prime cannot organise that between themselves? And why the fuck can we not call out individual players for diabolical performances? Everyone was talking about him like the Moroccan Bobby Moore after 2 games against shit opposition. Any time the level has gone up, he's looked pony, and he needs to drastically improve."

[Side of Ham]

You tell us ED seeing as you are putting it across you are a man of action….the point is….there are bigger fish to fry and they are very likely the main reason he’s fucking up….that need the constant digging out so they may fuck off finally….

[Eerie Descent]

"£35mil, probably £90k wages per week, 27 years old, getting the basics wrong. It's ok to point that out, because it's what's happening. Yes, let's hope he improves under a new manager. But we might not get one, so what happens then?"

[Side of Ham]

If you are being coached to play anti football and are new to this league it is THE best league to rip you a new one…..is all some are saying….examples of players that found it hard because of shit coaching are Winston Reid & Angelo DOGbonna as he was kindly nicknamed on here…..turn on the coaching of shit non possession football before writing off players…..there’s the right order to do things and this ain’t it…..

[Manuel]

"It truly is embarrassing, I look forward to them suddenly becoming great players from August, lol. The other one on here is that is Moyes's fault Paquetta and Soucek can't pass the ball 5 yards to a team mate."

[GoalLazio]

Funny how its only West Ham signings that take a long time to adjust to the Premier league…..I think they’ve had fucking long enough. What a stupid saying.

[Gaffer58]

"Think he will prove a good buy, along with Emerson, Paqueta , Scamacca when they get used to the pace and physical side of the premiership. So hopefully we’re still in the premiership next season they will be more adjusted."

[goose]

the entire back 4 + keeper look a bag of nerves whenever we are being attacked. or with the ball at their feet. i cannot believe that Ogbonna or Coufal would not do a better job.

[BRANDED]

"""there's no way we'd look this poor defending with Dawson in the side"" I kept thinking this last night. Defend the FUCKING goal YOU MASSIVE bellends"

[northbankboy68]

How long is Andy Scamacca out?

[northbankboy68]

How long is Andy Scamacca out?