West Ham rejecting a £20m offer for Brazilian starlet Luis Guilherme looks more ridiculous by the day.
As pointed out by Martin yesterday, Claret & Hugh were informed by a top source at the club that Guilherme was going to feature more regularly following an impressive cameo against Chelsea.
As a result, Hammers manager Graham Potter decided to keep the 19-year-old in his squad and reject a £20m+ money-back offer from Flamengo in February (the window was open in Brazil until Feb 28th).
At the time, most West Ham fans were delighted to hear that the young wonderkid of Brazilian football was about to get his chance. After all, much fuss was made about West Ham’s first transfer of a busy summer, and the team is crying out for an injection of pace.
Unfortunately, six weeks later, Guilherme is still waiting for his chance at first-team football. It seems like a crazy decision to reject decent money for a player who is clearly not going to feature, particularly at a time when the club is described as ‘broke’.
Guilherme has been labelled as ‘faster than Kylian Mbappé’, but he seemingly can’t even get a few minutes off the bench. No offence to Danny Ings, but this West Ham team is ponderously slow, and the sight of Ings running through treacle when an injection of pace is required is just madness.
Put simply, the Hammers must either sell the youngster or play him because I suspect there won’t be too many more money-back offers on the table
I absolutely want to see Guilherme given some playing time but saying he’s “faster than Mbappe” is hardly any sort of ringing endorsement for that.
Usain Bolt is faster than Mbappe and look how his footballing “career” turned out.
He’s a teenager who moved here from a completely different continent 7 months ago (not to mention 1 manager ago). Can we not give the kid time? That £25m might turn into twice as much or more in the long run- I think a bit of perspective is needed.
100% agree this is the one thing that’s really ****ed me off this season….FFS GIVE THE LAD A GAME…..we have nothing to lose or play for …so the perfect time to give this boy his chance…
Every game I’m excited to watch him and see what he’s got, instead we get Danny Ings who was past it when we paid over the odds for him. Also Ferguson needs to start as he is lacking in confidence and match fitness big time. Potter sort it out Mate, show some balls and stop playing the dinosaurs.
How many more times is this question going to asked?
It is now becoming monotonous.
Media are saying play him.
Fans are saying play him.
Other players are saying play him.
You need to send some of these comments direct to Potter.
Plays Ings instead of Guilherme for what reason?
This week against Everton would be a good place to start.
Westham are broke because 100’s of millions wasted on old worthless donkeys . Potter kept Guilherme and therefore must play him or else he’s just another idiot coach . The dull crap that Westham have served up against many teams this year now warrants new young energetic players be given a proper chance . There is absolutely no excuse to play the kids and see what they’ve got .
Please explain why we are broke?
Were not broke . As usual dwarfs playing the fanbase like a fiddle. As tony cottee recently told DS if you cannot afford the club. It’s time to sell up. as make no mistake the natives are becoming increasingly restless the stadium is an absolute shambles and the constant poverty pleading is turning fans away hand over fist .
He needs to be given a chance or 3. Many others are played week in week out and don’t do much so what have we got to lose.
I don’t get why we don’t play him, can your source give some insight? It’s getting very frustrating, let tha fans have a look at him.
It’s pretty obvious he ain’t looking great in training simple as that
Maybe mate ..but there has been lots and some awful trainers over the years
.but totally different players on the pitch…..some show nothing in training but In a game totally different