THERE was fan outrage this summer as David Sullivan did the ‘deal with the devil‘ and agreed a £54 .5 million deal with Daniel Levy: The first time West Ham and Tottenham had conducted transfer business in about fifteen years.
Mohammed Kudus‘ insensitive comments no sooner had he landed at Tottenham in July of last year show how deaf the player and his entourage were to public opinion at West Ham: Remember the headline?.
“Tottenham signing Mohammed Kudus risks West Ham fans’ wrath with medical comment” ..
There were a whole lot of words he could have used instead of his ‘heart has Spurs‘ on it comment which merely served to inflame opinion against him and ensure a rough reception for the player whenever he appeared in east London.
Kudus was rumoured to be desperate to leave West Ham the year before – stories abounded of him trying to get his agent to engineer an extraction under Lopetegui.
Despite being handsomely paid to be a Hammer, the never ending reports of disharmony served to convince the Irons’ faithful that talk of ‘that’ half-time dressing room bust up between Kudus and his manager had definite substance.
The calm that has apparently descended at West Ham and the unity in adversity since Kudus and Paquetá have departed appears to be in stark contract to Tottenham’s rapidly sinking ship.
For Kudus now to have been reported as planning to bail out of Spurs – ‘secretly reaching a verbal agreement’ , with Athletico Madrid shows where the Ghanain’s heart really lies and it certainly isn’t with any football club.
Some players do exhibit the tendency to be in the sport solely for what they can get out of it and: In that case, better off far away from West Ham United.
For without ‘starboy’ anywhere near their club, the Hammers look ‘United’ once more.
Kudus was twigged fairly quickly, he never adapted to being doubled and trebled up on, it always ended in him losing the ball, never an incisive pass.
He blew out with us due to it and he’s blown out at Tottenham too.
Often players reputations are on what they once did not what they’re doing any more, he’s a prime example of it.
Kudus moved on at the right moment. West Ham were a rudderless mess at the time.
We were given good money for him unlike some others who should have been progressing their careers elsewhere.
Happy Hammers.
For me he was one of the bad apples that had to go for the Hammers to rebuild. There is a couple on loan I would like to see gone for the same reasons. Let you guess which ones.