West Ham United’s Hammer of the year Aaron Wan Bissaka was an absolute gem of a signing from Manchester United at £15 million. His debut season at London Stadium had him more settled in London nearer family, performing brilliantly on the pitch in just about any position at t back or even striding forward as a right sided midfielder – it seems there was no end to his talent and his value to the side.
With West Ham ending the contracts of Aaron Cresswell and Vlad Coufal, the Hammers need a new left- sided defender, especially as Emerson Palmirei has been linked this window with a move back to Serie A having failed to impress Graham Potter almost right from the start.
Even a £7 million fee would seem to suffice – to take the Brazilian to his Roma rivals Lazio – much like moving from Spurs to West Ham in terms of controversy.
Arsenal’s Oleksander Zinchenko is a man betwixt and between who, according to Ukrainian site unn.uaearlier today, will be leaving Arsenal and has his choice of clubs pitching for his signature, amongst them being: ‘Milan, Fulham and West Ham United’.
Able to operate on the left side of midfield or as a left sided defender, Zinchenko has an immaculate Premier League pedigree.
At £13 million he’d be less than West Ham paid for Wan-Bissaka and just as effective, offering Potter options on the left hand side. Giving Ollie Scarles the opportunity to learn from another consummate Premier League professional who’s worked under Guardiola ( And Arteta) would make amends for booting out his mentor Aaron Cresswell, and would help Scarles’ development through to first team superstar in the next year or so.
Seemingly, Zinxchenko is one of those ablsoute nailed -on must – have signings if at all possible – certainly from Ukraine the mood music is that he’s quitting Arsenal and probably would prefer to stay in London where his family is.
Zinchenko should be left back. Left back on the Arsenal bench.
He is too slow and not strong enough to run up and down the left side.
We already had a mentor as in Cresswell but nope no thought of giving him a new deal but then again he doesn’t crash his car as often as others have.
Okay, so we have a good right back in AWB. I think scarles is gonna be PL quality this season. I don’t mind him making mistakes like against liverpool, as long as he’s learning. But we do need a backup on both sides.
Dont we need a right back just as much? With coufal gone our only rightbacj is AWB, as i see it. One injury to him might set us back 10
Points in the coming season, which we will need by the end. Hope we get a decent rightback and a leftback to challenge awp and scarles, event at roughly 10 mil. We need it
An absolute no brainer !!! We should have bought him two seasons ago.
A terrific defender and midfielder. .
Will we buy him? Course not, too obvious that Sullivan hasn’t thought of it.This board will be the demise of this club and that’s stating the bleeding obvious..
Oh, how I wished that the Pratt timber family were still in control of this club.
He can’t effing defend and has no value so your pissing money down the drain as per usual and repeating the same mistake of the past, get a grip! When all the clubs in the top ten start recruiting free out of contract player’s and ageing player’s at the end of their careers then maybe do likewise but they don’t for good reason. Martin you should know better and I normally agree with your articles but we need to change our philosophy sharpest!
Good player, zero pace; in an achingly slow team, introducing another slow but “technically” gifted player, isn’t a solution. Not much better than Cresswell….who we should never have got rid of, and we should be stumbling all over ourselves to get back in a player coach role.
Bang average, best days years behind him,
Leave well alone, more mistakes than mavrapanos..