West Ham fans hoping Summerville curve ball could derail summer move

It has long been accepted that West Ham’s brightest talent will be off to fresh challenges following the Irons’ relegation on the last day of the season, despite a 3-0 comprehensive victory against already safe Leeds United.

Too little, too late was the footnote as the Hammers were left two points short of their nearest rivals and now face the summer rebuild that mist inevitably follow before a season in the Championship.

Along with Mateus Fernandes, Crysencio Summerville has been the player which most fans fully expect to quit the club: Young, gifted and on an upward trajectory, the expectation has always been that he’d be snapped up by one of the several suitors that had been reportedly aiming for his signature – with AC Roma at the front of the queue.

However it appears the player might have shot himself in the foot as far as a move to AC Roma is concerned, according to news out of Italy conveyed by Ilmessagario.it:.

The report claims they are now looking at other talent, owing to Summerville’s wage demands:

“the player’s initial demands are frightening, as he wants a €6m-per-season contract (£5.1m)”.

That’s half a million a month which is way too strong for Serie A.

Hammers fans will be hoping that the player cannot find a club likely to fork out for that  salary – however, it is pretty modest by Premier League standards and the likelihood is that Summerville will simply have his agent switch to a move closer to home, with Leeds, Spurs, Everton and even Liverpool having been linked – as well as those dubious stories linking PSG with a ‘double swoop’ for both Fernandes and Summerville.

The faint hopes that West Ham fans might harbour of keeping their Flying Dutchman are unlikely to come to much: With Summerville’s World Cup debut due at 9pm tonight there’s every chance that he’ll be out to impress and show why he’s worth every bit of that £5 million a year.