We are sweating on Antonio…and that’s so depressing!
But that’s what happened and, love the bloke as I do, it really is one of those ‘back to the future’ moments in the life of the club.
Blimey, at the start of the season he was seen as no more than an emergency striker – now he’s our main hope.
We have a £45 million striker at the club who is beginning to show why a certain Maxi Gomez was Pellegrini’s first choice back in the summer.
And of course we have £8 million Albian Ajeti who frankly should not be in the same squad – or indeed club – as the former Nottingham Forest man bought by Slaven Bilic.
We are still unsure whether he will be available for Monday night’s match against Arsenal when quite frankly the visitors should be there for the taking, but sadly that is never part of the West Ham Way is it?
There would no doubt be many – if we were to run a poll – who would agree that the Irons perhaps have a less than 25 per cent chance of doing so unless Mikey is available.
He’s become the talisman and after around 130 minutes first team football following a long, long lay off and is seen as our saviour on the goal scoring front which frankly is more than worrying
Haller is off the boil and Ajetii? Enough’s been said. As for Yarmolenko what you see is not always not what you get leaving us with Snoddy and hopefully Fornals to weigh in.
But I’m very much among those who can’t see where a goal is coming from if Antonio misses out and that really is pretty depressing given the dough that’s been spent.
COYI