Fans don’t need asking twice to pass judgement on players, but it is slightly less common for a player to be quite so willing to give a verdict on themselves – so when someone says they will probably go down as a club’s worst ever signing, you tend to take notice. And that is what Kieron Dyer says of his time at West Ham.
The former Newcastle and England midfielder joined the Irons in 2007 as a key part of manager Alan Curbishley’s vision for the future, but a broken leg in just his second game meant Dyer never got a chance to shine in claret and blue, and had the rest of his career severely curtailed as a result.
“I will probably go down as the worst signing ever for West Ham, which is such a shame,” he told “Blowing Bubbles magazine”:http://www.blowing-bubbles.co.uk/read-our-latest-issue.html "West Ham should have seen the best of me but after that injury I never managed to play four or fives games on the trot. It’s hard to take knowing West Ham never truly saw what I had to offer. The fans should have seen the best of me but they probably only saw 10% of what I could do.”
In a brutally honest interview, Dyer discusses the high and low points of his career – on and off the pitch – the enduring respect he has for West Ham fans, the dark secret that haunted him throughout his career, and his opinion on where the club is now, a decade on from the supposed new dawn under Curbishley that never quite happened.
To read more on all things claret and blue, including what the future holds for James Collins, what the club need to do to make things safe this season, an appraisal of recent transfer comings and goings, and how the board and fans can take steps to improve the current strained relations, pick up a copy of the new edition of Blowing Bubbles magazine – “Out now”:http://www.blowing-bubbles.co.uk/read-our-latest-issue.html