Andre Ayew Becomes West Ham Record Signing

 

West Ham have completed the signing of Andre Ayew from Swansea for a club record fee. The Ghana forward has signed a three-year deal with a two-year option and becomes the club's ninth summer signing.

The fee is £20.5m, according to West Ham's co-chairman David Gold, eclipsing the £15m the club paid Liverpool for Andy Carroll. Ayew spent just one season at Swansea following a move from Marseille, where Hammers star Dimitri Payet was among his team-mates.

Ayew said “I am very proud and happy to be at this magnificent club. I am happy to be playing for these fans and I hope to make the people very happy here. The club have a lot of ambition and have a great manager. They want to become a bigger club every year and with the new stadium and a new training ground you can feel they are moving onto another level and I want to be part of this project. I want to train hard, do my job and show that I deserve to play for West Ham United. I want to give back to the manager and the fans the confidence they are showing me.”