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Hammers in Gomez cliffhanger

West Ham’s hopes of signing Maxi Gomez at around half price from Celta Vigo are hanging in the balance as the Spanish season heads towards its end.

Vigo are currently in 14th place in the 20 team table but on the same points as 15th, 16th and 17th placed outfits Levante, Girona and Real Valladolid.

And with a clash at the weekend against Barcelona there’s a strong possibility of them slipping beneath all three of their nearest rivals.

They then go into two end of season games against seventh place Athletic Bilbao away and finish their campaign against second off bottom Rayo Vallecano who could already have been relegated at home.

It’s a cliffhanger for the Hammers who could pay either €42 million of the club stay up as per his contract clause but the buy out drops to £22 million should they be relegated.

Gomez has been the priority target since the winter when talks aimed at buying the player and loaning him back to the Spanish club until the end of the season broke down.

 

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5 comments on “Hammers in Gomez cliffhanger

  1. There seems to be a massive assumption that we’ll get Gomez no matter what. Do we even know if he wants to come to West Ham. Surely other clubs are interested? Everton will no doubt snatch him at the last minute.

    I hope we don’t have all our eggs in one basket.

  2. Isn’t it a double edged sword if Celta Vigo get relegated.
    Yes Gomez can go for £22 million, but that’s such a bargain that there will be more of a chance of someone like Spurs coming in for him. We will face far more competition for him at that price.

  3. I know we don’t have a King with no cloths on but isn’t anyone going to say why Anderson won’t head the ball. He actually ducks. Even so a great player and person.

  4. Gomez fits the bill in terms of age. Also his strike rate of about 1 per two games (for a weak side) is about what we want. The fee looks ok. The trouble is, as pointed out above, others will probably outbid us. Spurs have been mentioned but I would not have thought he is on their list. More of a problem are the likes of Everton, Leicester , Wolves etc who have been able to beat us to this sort of player in recent seasons -Dendoncker, Jimenez, Maguire Richarlison among others. All the stuff about the big stadium, & players being attracted to London doesn’t seem to count for much.

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