West Ham’s Nikola Vlasic has voiced his frustration at having to return to the club.
The midfielder of course was bought for around £25 million by David Moyes and received very few chances to prove his worth.
Vlasic wants to leave West Ham
But it came as something of a shock when the manager, having shown such costly faith in him, decided there was no future for him at the club and as a result allowed him to be loaned out to Turin where he made a bright opening to his spell and became a near regular.
However, it appears that having agreed to a fee should the move become permanent, Turin are allegedly trying to reduce it from £11.7 m to £7.7 million – a major loss on the Moyes signing.
Now the player has made it clear he could not be much more unhappy at the way the Hammers are behaving as a result despite the club being expected to take a big loss on him.
He is alleged to have told Tuttosport: “‘I’m fed up with this dead-end situation. We all know that I’m not considered an important player here. I’m just one of many in the reserve group.
I returned to London respecting the call-up with great fairness and I am training every day with the utmost professionalism, but this cannot be the solution, I’ve been telling you for two months that I want to play for Turin, that I no longer want to stay at West Ham under these conditions, on the sidelines.
Also, that my own family never wants to go back to live in England. And that I’m not interested in evaluating other market hypotheses, if ever there were. Your behaviour is incomprehensible.
I know that Torino has already offered you €9m for a long time, an important figure, respectful of my value and your needs.
But you don’t intend to negotiate with Torino, repeat that it’s not enough, but still don’t communicate to the Italian club what the right figure is. I’m worried: I will continue training with great seriousness but it cannot go on like this.’
I feel for him. It’s never nice going to work when the manager dislikes you even if you’re good. He is never going to get the opportunity to prove that under this regime.
DIdn’t we though not pay all the fee as it was to a Russian club, so therefore deemed illegal if we sent money to Russia?
Unfortunately when signing for WH he thought he could live upto the price-tag- also not getting enough game time has hindered that. The price is 12 million which is a 50% loss. Pay up Torino or no deal.
I agree with Rug this is a problem of Torino’s making, they want to renage on the deal they made.
As a Hammers supporter for 7 decades i have to say that the ‘hiearchie’ has always been joke but the last five years has excelled itself. Football at this level is big business, or should be. We are effectively controlled by an owner who is overflowing with vague promises as long as his loan account receives big interest and his capital value grows. If Moyes contract had been renewable this year surely he would have gone and we had months to find a good replacement. Unfortunately (not sure i mean this!!) we won the Euro DESPITE and not because of Moyes and he was kept on to save a years salary. His buys have been woeful generally and treatment of youngsters dreadful; remember he says “inclusion to sit on the bench for a few games is a huge promotion for these guys”. How about at the end of October Moyes sacked winless and we cant find a good manager available now???? A hugely disappointed Michael
I’m sorry but Vlassic should be venting his anger at Torino. There was an agreement in place that following the season long loan, they would purchase at the agreed price. Torino should pay up. If they don’t, he comes back to us. End of.