West Ham are plotting the sweetest £20m revenge mission on Arsenal with Yunus Musah move after coach’s deep regret.
After months of incessant speculation Arsenal look set to get their hands on West Ham’s beloved captain Declan Rice.
In the end it seems the Gunners will be forced to pay the £100m plus West Ham have always demanded, despite some late and thoroughly unconvincing brinkmanship.
Arsenal fans are taking great delight in relieving the Hammers of their crown jewels.
And focus at West Ham has already turned to replacing Rice with two different midfielders such is his unique, hybrid talent.
It stings for West Ham fans to see Rice joining a London rival.
West Ham plotting sweetest £20m revenge mission on Arsenal with Yunus Musah move after coach’s deep regret
West Ham play in a bigger stadium in front of – by the player’s own admission – the best fans around.
The Hammers even won a trophy Rice so desired. But Champions League football, remaining in London and playing for a progressive manager who can develop his game were the midfielder’s top priorities.
Unfortunately for the Hammers, Arsenal are the only club that tick those boxes.
But West Ham are plotting the sweetest £20m revenge mission on Arsenal with a Yunus Musah move after coach’s deep regret.
David Moyes wants 20-year-old all-action Valencia and USA star Musah as one of Rice’s replacements.
Gunners were desperate to keep Musah and now he could end up at West Ham
According to a report from Estadio Deportivo, the midfielder is keen to move to the London Stadium this summer. And better still West Ham can get him for just £20m – a fifth of the price of Rice.
The powerful, pacy, technically excellent Musah really is just what West Ham need when Rice leaves. Fans will remember him shining for the US at the World Cup despite his tender age.
There are two big surprises when it comes to Musah. The fact he has already played over 100 games for Valencia and 25 for his country.
And that Arsenal somehow let this outrageous central midfield monster talent leave as a 16-year-old.
He is so quick, so powerful and so good on the ball it is actually shocking to think a club like Arsenal – who are so desperate for a young star with that talent they are paying West Ham £100m for theirs – let him leave.
Coach’s regret says it all – the perfect Rice revenge for Hammers
But that was a decision taken by the player as he sought first team football at the earliest possible opportunity and, it should be noted, before Mikel Arteta was appointed manager.
Ironically it was ex West Ham academy coach Trevor Bumstead, now of Arsenal, who admits deep regret at seeing Musah leave the Gunners for Valencia (The Athletic).
“I think his style is suited to the Premier League, so it wouldn’t be a shock if he returns at some point,” Bumstead told The Athletic.
“You never know, if he has a good World Cup, I’m sure there’ll be a clamour of teams looking to sign him.”
Oh the sweet irony.
As West Ham sell their prodigious talent to Arsenal for £100m, the Hammers replace him – in part – with their one of their former starlets they were desperate to cling on to but couldn’t. And for a fifth of the price.
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