Marko Arnautovic has made it clear that he is ready to scare the living daylights out of Premier League defences will scare defences to death again.
The club’s fading hero has been kept very much on the back by Manuel Pellegrini since his January transfer chaos and injury problem against Wolves.
Chicharito has been preferred on several occasion and the Austrian has been far from the flavour of the month with Hammers fans.
Now, however, he is shouting from the roof tops that he is ready to show that he has lost nothing despite having failed to find the net since the beginning of January when he scored in the 2-2 draw against Brighton and Hove Albion.
Most of us of course would prefer him to let his feet do the talking although the striker has always found it hard to perform without the affections of the supporters.
In something of a ‘war cry’ he is quoted on the Goal website as saying “I joined West Ham, because the club has a project and wants to rise. The club invested lots of money and will continue to do so next year.
That is why I renewed. I will shine again. People think I am too old at 30. But that is just a number on paper.
“When people say I have a dip in form, that is nonsense. No matter which defenders are in front of me, they better be scared because of me. I don’t have a crisis.”
Narcissistic and flakey as hell – but we need someone arrogant and muscular like him to power into the box to compliment the natty poachers. He’s the closest we’ve got (recently) to a Lukaku or a Vardy and I hope he gets whatever it takes to get him firing on all cylinders until the end of the season.
I would be happier if he did his talking on the pitch, sounds like a lot of hot air.