The 25-year-old joins the Bundesliga side after a difficult season with Hamburg in which he scored just three goals in total <\/p>\n
Hannover 96 has confirmed the arrival of American forward Bobby Wood from Hamburg on a season-long loan with a purchase option.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wood endured a difficult 2017-18\u00a0with Hamburg, scoring just two league goals in 24 appearances as the club was relegated to the 2.Bundesliga.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the 25-year-old will now continue in the German top flight, landing with Hannover after two seasons with HSV.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n \u201cI had very good conversations with the coach and I know what the club want to achieve, what kind of football they want to play and what my role can be,” Wood told Hannover’s official website.<\/p>\n “This is the perfect move for me. Hannover played some exciting football last season and I\u2019m confident my style fits with how the team plays.\u201d<\/p>\n Wood has been capped 39 times by the U.S. national team, scoring 12 goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prior to his spell at Hamburg, Wood played for several teams in the German second division, scoring 17 goals with Union Berlin in the 2015-16 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Bobby Wood has exactly the striker profile we’ve defined, a highly talented player who has already proven his potential, and is a great fit for us because of his extremely team-friendly playing style and his great willingness to run,”\u00a0Hannover manager Horst Heldt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n “He’s had a difficult time recently, but not long ago half the league was after him, so we’re very happy he made the transfer to us.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 25-year-old joins the Bundesliga side after a difficult season with Hamburg in which he scored just three goals in total Hannover 96 has confirmed the arrival of American forward Bobby Wood from Hamburg on a season-long loan with a purchase option.\u00a0 Wood endured a difficult 2017-18\u00a0with Hamburg, scoring just two league goals in 24…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n