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Zarate linked with a return to Italy

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Mauro_Zárate_with_West_Ham_in_July_2015West Ham striker Mauro Zarate has been linked with a return to Italy. Corriere dello Sport says Fiorentina are weighing up a move for Zarate to replace Giuseppe Rossi who could be included as part of the deal in the opposite direction to West Ham.

Mauro Zarate was notably absent again from the 18 man squad that faced Newcastle on Saturday. His exclusion came after Bilic claimed he should be fit for the Newcastle match, suggesting he missed Bournemouth’s game on Tuesday evening due to cramp.

Slav told the assembled media earlier this week “On Zarate, he felt (pain) before the Bournemouth game in training the day before he was shooting some free kicks and all that then he felt a bit (of pain), but was just a kind of cramp so he is also training today and should be fit for Saturday and that is basically it”  

Zarate’s absence over the last two games has created much speculation he could be outbound in this January transfer window and he could have played his last game in a Claret and Blue shirt. We have been told that West Ham are ready to allow Mauro Zarate to leave the club if an offer of around £3 million were to emerge out of Europe.

ClaretandHugh have been told whilst there have been no firm bids for the Argentinian so far, the club is ready to listen to bids for him. Within Zarate’s 11 year career he has moved either permanently or on loan eight times. A senior insider told ClaretandHugh: “There has been no official approach from anywhere”. That was quickly followed by the source adding: “It wouldn’t be a great surprise to be honest were we to get one later on in the window. Should bids come in then we will certainly be ready to listen.”

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5 comments

  • bubs says:

    Rossi was brilliant in Spain but was injury free at the time,but he would not cover Sakho and Carroll because he is not a large holding player and he has not got the quality of Zarate,
    With Lanzini and Payet the ball players and Valencia,Moses and Antonio the back up forwards it would be hard to find a place where Rossi would play,
    We need a player to cover AC and Sakho if Jelavic is leaving then we need him now,
    Zarate has had his dat his agent is a pain time to take the money and run

  • whambam says:

    We’re going to hijack the Everton deal for Leeds right back, Hugh, make a story about it

  • Dagenhamjohn says:

    Zarate is a luxury we cannot afford imo, times up my son, all the best Mauro!

    get that zaza gabor geezer in ASAP!

  • ItalianHammer says:

    I agree, we’d be stupid to swap Zarate for a injury prone giussepe rossi who is coming past his best right now. Would stick for Zarate all day long who isn’t injury prone and can score goals and create.

  • hammer4life says:

    I don’t pretend to know much about Rossi but he has had a lot of problems with his right knee and has not scored this season in 11 appearances. If like to think that we are not daft enough to sign another injury prone forward past his best. I’m sure our owners are smart enough to see through Fiorentina’s little game. You know anybody offered the other way in a January swap will be too old, too expensive and/or broken. Cash only or no thanks.

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