Loanee Tomas Soucek is showing his worth to West Ham since football restarted with some great performances.Sunday’s game against Newcastle was another good game for the Czech player with 66 touches, 44 passes, 8 aerial duels won as well as one goal and the official West Ham man of the match award.
It was a similar story in the 3-2 win against Chelsea four days earlier scoring two goals one of which, of course, scored him his first goal as a Hammer, and another which was wrongly ruled out by Jon Moss and VAR.
The 25-year-old on loan from Slavia Prague will automatically sign permanently if West Ham retains their Premier League status.
The Slavia Prague chairman Jaroslav Tvrdik previously confirmed the finances of the deal that took Soucek to West Ham explaining on social media that there is a €4.5m (£3.75m) loan fee and an additional €16.2m (£13.5m) to make the deal permanent if West Ham remains in the top flight.
Why do you say wrongly ruled out by VAR? As much as I hate it, the ruling is correct. A change is needed no daubt but as it stands Antonio was interfering with the keeper (his presence was a contributing factor tonthe situation), andna goalscoring part (his head) was marginally offside. According to the protocol VAR got it right – but something obviously have to change in both rules and use of VAR.