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This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
West Ham United are refusing to rule out a possible summer swoop for Porto striker Moussa Marega, ClaretandHugh report.
What’s the word?
The Mali international features on a list of options as the Hammers look to recruit more firepower this summer.
The club have allowed Andy Carroll and Lucas Perez to leave the club, meaning that Javier Hernandez and Marko Arnautovic are now the club’s only forward options.
Hernandez, however, is deemed expendable, Football FanCast understands, with the Irons looking to shift him from the wage bill.
Maxi Gomez, FFC has confirmed, is the club’s priority in this window but ClaretandHugh claim that Marega could be an option once the club have shifted Chicharito to a new club. He would cost around £31m.
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A mistake
We’ve been here before.
West Ham have been linked with Marega on various separate occasions and A Bola, via the Daily Mail, actually claimed earlier this summer that he would join the Irons in this transfer window.
The truth of the matter, FFC understands, is that the Mali international’s agent has been continually offering the striker to potential suitors.
He has been presented to the Hammers before as an option but the deal was swiftly rejected.
If the Irons were to suddenly take the intermediary up on the offer, one has to feel that desperation will have set in.
That cannot be allowed to happen.
Marega has proved nothing at the top level; West Ham should steer well clear.