Wilshere said: “In the short time I’ve been here, I’ve seen what type of character he is, he’s a great character, a great person to have around. He just wants to play; he was struggling with a knee injury and hardly training but he always said he wanted to play.
Fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp was less sure saying “I’ve always heard he wants to play for a top-six club but the truth is, he wants to go to China. If you’re going there, you’re going there for the money – it’s a fact.
“If someone’s offering you £300,000 a week, it’s hard to turn down. I get
“If you say to him, ‘Stay until the end of January, get me goals and then I’ll sell you,’ that might be the ideal situation but to replace him is not easy. You want to keep him, of course you do, but West Ham will survive with or without him. You had it when Payet left, they’ve done it before. There’s always someone else who will come along, but you don’t want to be held to ransom by his brother – he needs to keep his mouth shut really.”