French club Lille have told West Ham how much they want for brilliant striker Jonathan David and it’s not unreasonable.
With the futures of Gianluca Scamacca and Michail Antonio uncertain at West Ham beyond this summer, David Moyes is being linked with a number of strikers.
The Hammers have been heavily linked with Lille’s Canada star Jonathan David in the past. And it has previously been reported that the player likes the idea of joining West Ham (Calcio Mercato).
Speaking in an interview with La Voix du Nord, the 23-year-old admitted he can see himself leaving Lille and only has eyes for the Premier League.
The alleged West Ham target has an excellent goalscoring record for club and country. He has notched 95 club goals in 219 games already in his fledgling career.
And he already has 25 in 42 games for Canada too.
Earlier this week journalist Ben Jacobs claimed fans should ‘keep an eye on West Ham‘ in the race to sign Lille attacker David in the summer transfer window.
Jacobs was the first journalist to break news of West Ham’s move to sign Lucas Paqueta last summer. And he used the exact same wording then too – ‘keep an eye on West Ham’.
Now French club Lille have told West Ham how much they want for brilliant striker David and it’s not unreasonable.
According to Foot Mercato, David would like to leave Lille for the Premier League this summer.
And the French club are already planning his replacement, a player West Ham know well – Gent’s Gift Orban, who they faced on their way to winning the Europa Conference League.
The report claims agents of David, who scored 24 league goals last season, have let interested clubs know be is valued at around £40m by Lille.
That is certainly not an unreasonable amount given his record, age and attributes. Especially in light of some of the fees being paid by clubs in recent transfer windows.
West Ham themselves paid £35m for Scamacca, who is the same age but does not have anything like the same goal statistics.
Any move for David will likely depend on whether the Hammers offload Scamacca, who is wanted by a host of Italian clubs.
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