Sometimes there’s a conflict when putting pen to paper to report on ‘West Ham Transfer Rumours’ even once they have been verified and confirmed. They simply don’t appear plausible because of the profile of the player involved: Such was the case with N’Golo Kante who seemed both old and expensive.
Indeed, sometimes the forthcoming response when reading a report in an overseas newspaper concerning ‘Hammers interest’ begs the question ‘Why would West Ham be interested in this player?’
Another young, left footed right winger on the radar for The Irons? Surely we have enough cover in that department and have other priorities. However.. Yes this one can apparently play across the front line. So, we will just highlight the possibility, anyway, and ‘watch this space’. Stranger things have happened than signing three players for the same position.
According to Italian newspaper Tuttosport West Ham United are about to become the third club bidding for the services of Argentine highly rated forward Matius Soulé this week: Roma and Leicester have been underbidding to try and secure the player on the cheap (sounds familiar!) but The Hammers are set to leap in with a bid worth £35 million to place themselves in pole position.
Doesn’t sound like a traditional West Ham United bidding strategy either. Fans are used to a slower style of negotiations, trying to prise players away for the lowest price regardless of the risk of losing them to a competitor in the process.
However, 21 years old and an Argentinian international would be the right demographic for our rebuild. We have reported on rumoured interest before for Soulé, so if a bid is forthcoming (I doubt it) we will all hear about it this week according to Tuttosport: I remain puzzled as to how the young forward would fit into our plans but that is a problem for Steiden and Lopetegui.