Hammers striker target Maxi Gomez grabbed a goal in Celta Vigo’s 1-1 draw at Espanyol to give his team renewed hopes of beating the drop.
Before beating fellow relegation rivals Villareal, Vigo had lost five games from six but Gomez has been a big part of their revival.
The difficult Wednesday night match against Espanyol was made tougher when they fell behind to a goal from Chinese striker Wu Lei before Gomez took a hand in proceedings.
He slotted home a second half equaliser to make it three goals in his last six outing as his team’s upward curve has continued and keep himself very much on the Hammers radar.
Celta are two points clear of the relegation places and are in the best form of the candidates for the drop which means the Irons will need to shell out €43.5 million should they retain their La Liga status rather than the €22m should they go down.
I think we have more chance of getting him if they stay up because other clubs won’t want to pay the full price, although it could be argued that has consistently been the stance from our chairmen, we should have signed him in January and he could be scoring goals for us now.
If we’d sold Marko for 35m in January and paid the release clause, we’d effectively have gotten him for 9m. Now we probably won’t be able to get anything for Marko, perhaps 20m at best.
We’ve never been any good at knowing when to buy and sell.