West Ham make contact to sign “box-crashing” midfielder

There’s lower than every week till the switch window closes, and West Ham United nonetheless have loads of work to do.

Graham Potter’s facet have made a number of thrilling signings this summer season, like El Hadji Malick Diouf and Kyle Walker-Peters, however as the previous couple of video games have proven, they want lots extra.

Furthermore, whereas he finally underwhelmed throughout his time on the membership, Edson Alvarez is now in Turkey, which has solely made the Hammers’ want for midfield reinforcements that rather more acute.

Fortunately, they look like closing in on a deal for Soungoutou Magassa and, if experiences are to be believed, they’re additionally making strikes to usher in somebody who’d be an excellent higher signing.

West Ham United goal higher signing than Magassa

Whereas their curiosity in Magassa seemingly stretches again additional, experiences of West Ham’s want to signal the Frenchman began to emerge late final week.

Impressively, the Hammers have moved unusually shortly to safe the companies of the AS Monaco ace, as he underwent his medical with the membership yesterday and might be introduced earlier than the tip of this week.

The 21-year-old seems to be like he’ll be an ideal addition to Potter’s squad, nevertheless it now seems to be just like the East Londoners are already shifting on to new targets, together with somebody who’s even higher than Magassa.

No less than that’s in accordance with Graeme Bailey, who has claimed that West Ham are desirous about Exequiel Palacios.

In truth, the journalist has revealed that the Irons have already made contact with Bayer Leverkusen to debate a deal for the unbelievable Argentine.

Apparently, whereas it isn’t clear how a lot the £83k-per-week ace would value the membership, the report states he might be accessible on mortgage, which makes him an much more attractive prospect.

It may nonetheless be an advanced deal to recover from the road, however Palacios could be greater than price it, particularly as he is higher than Magassa.

How Palacios compares to Magassa

It must be made clear that each Magassa and Palacios could be wonderful signings for West Ham this summer season, however there are a number of causes the latter could be that little bit higher.

The primary is his spectacular expertise, as, at 26 years outdated, he has spent way more time taking part in on the highest degree and exceeding there.

For instance, the Famaillá-born maestro has made 160 appearances for Leverkusen, 87 for River Plate and received 36 senior caps for Argentina.

Furthermore, he has a genuinely spectacular trophy cupboard that features a Bundesliga, a DFB-Pokal, two Argentine Cups, the Copa Libertadores, two Copa América titles, and a World Cup.

In distinction, the 21-year-old Monaco star has simply an Olympic silver medal to his identify, and whereas which will nicely change in time, he will not be capable of deliver the identical profitable expertise to the London Stadium.

The second, and arguably essentially the most significant, motive the Leverkusen star could be the higher signing this summer season is that, after we have a look beneath the hood at their underlying numbers, he comes out on prime in most related statistics.

These metrics embrace issues like anticipated and precise non-penalty objectives plus assists, key passes, photographs, shot and goal-creating actions, passing accuracy, and so many extra, all per 90.

In different phrases, whereas he won’t be fairly as defensively strong because the Frenchman, the “box-crashing” Leverkusen star, as dubbed by analyst Ben Mattinson, is an all-action midfielder who’s as a lot of a goalscoring risk as a artistic one.

Finally, West Ham ought to signal each Magassa and Palacios to provide themselves the very best likelihood of constructing this season successful; nevertheless, for our cash, the latter could be the higher addition of the 2.