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Please Diang't Go!

What does it say about the finances of West Ham United that we have apparently agreed a knock down fee for our brightest prospect? As I write it is being reported that a £12 million fee has been agreed with West Bromwich Albion for Grady Diangana. The fee could rise to £18 million with add ons. Or it might not. We were told that he wouldn’t be sold for less than £25 million. OK, the transfer market is not what it was, but Diangana has been our best player in pre-season and it is utter madness to let him go, especially on the cheap.

A front line of Diangana on the left, Bowen on the right, with Antonio and/or Haller playing through the middle was something I was really looking forward to.

It really comes to something when we can’t hold onto a bright young prospect and he actually wants to go to a club which most people think are dead certs for relegation.

I get the need to sell players, but you sell players who haven’t performed as expected. It would have been far better to have sold Lanzini, Anderson or even Fornals. Maybe they think they’re not going to get any offers for those players, but if we’re so desperate for £12 million to fund another central defender I think we might well have been able to get it from elsewhere, rather than selling a player, who, in twelve months time, could be worth a multiple of that.

Feeling very down.

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