Board meeting focus on Feghouli

Sofiane Feghouli will become a biggish issue at today’s annual review of the season being held at Sullivan Towers today.

The two Davids, Karren Brady and Slaven Bilic will settle down to frank talks after the club finally finished in a creditable 11th position.

But they will know it could have been very different had Feghouli not produced his best performance of the season, full of creative artistry and a great goal.

Playing in more central role, the Algerian linked well with Andre Ayew and the fact that Manu Lanzini was not quite on his normal game didn’t make too much difference as the Hammers took all three points.

OK, one swallow doesn’t make a summer but what it does show that there is clearly a lot more to the Algerian’s game than we had seen previously.

Roma and a couple of other European outfits are know to be hovering around him and the manager has admitted that talks are planned between him and the player to decide his future.

Frankly, were he to produce the quality he showed yesterday on a consistent basis it would be impossible to consider selling him. However, that is precisely the problem – like the team, he has lacked that consistency.

For sure, this is one that is set to exercise the minds of the chairmen and boss when they get to grips with their numerous issues today.