Free agent signing is unlikely

Sean Whetstone

5 years ago

Categories: News, Whispers

According to a report TeamTALK, Serbia international defensive midfielder Nemanja Radoja is keen on a move to England after missing all of last season due to injury with West Ham, Leeds and Brighton all claimed to be interested.

The 26-year-old is now a free agent after being released by Celta Vigo, where he featured 146 times following his €1m move from hometown club FK Vojvodina in 2014. Radoja has a EU passport after spending five years in Spain.

However, West Ham have no squad positions available having filled and submitted their list for all 17 non-home-grown players for this season. With the current squad full the Hammers are restricted to signing free agents who are homegrown players as they have two positions available or under 21’s which are unlimited so as this guy is 26 and non-homegrown this report doesn’t stack up.

Pellegrini has stated Carlos Sanchez will play an important role this season as the sole backup to Delcan Rice.