West Ham transfer target starts despite rumours
Reims are currently one-nil up in the first half between third-place Lille and fifteen placed Reims Du Stade in the French top flight of football.
Rumours on social media surfaced earlier today that Dia had been withdrawn from the squad giving false hopes to an imminent West Ham transfer but that has not turned out to be the case.
The Senegal international has scored 12 goals in 17 games this season and is said to to be more of a David Moyes type player than Sebastien Haller and usually plays the lone striker role for the French side.
He is described as powerful, has explosive pace and is a real menace for opposing defenders, a description that could also bee used to describe Michail Antonio.
It appears the Hammers are yet to make a formal bid for Dia but things can move very fast in the world of transfers.