West Ham United need to ‘do a Jack Wilshere’ with Danny Ings as a matter of urgency in my opinion.
Danny Ings has put in utterly dreadful performances for West Ham at least 90% of the time since he moved to the London Stadium.
The fact that Hammers boss David Moyes signed him in the first place still baffles me to this day, and he’s already being linked with an exit from the club.
The 31-year-old’s woeful record of just three goals in 41 games for West Ham speaks for itself (Transfermarkt).
Ings is totally finished at Premier League level in my opinion. And the way that his career has tailed off is eerily similar to that of Jack Wilshere.
The midfielder joined West Ham on a free transfer from Arsenal in the summer of 2018, but he ended up being an absolutely disastrous signing for us. David Sullivan was forced into taking extreme measures to limit the financial damage caused by the Wilshere signing, and he has to do the same with Ings…
West Ham need to ‘do a Jack Wilshere’ with Danny Ings
It’s time that the Hammers owners took matters into their own hands with the former Burnley, Liverpool, Southampton and Aston Villa striker. It’s not like we haven’t done similar before!
Three years ago, West Ham essentially bought out the remainder of Wilshere‘s contract.
Wilshere had just nine months remaining on his deal with the Hammers at the time. He was on £100,000 per week, so that roughly works out to around £3.92 million that West Ham would have had to pay him.
However, the club allegedly agreed to pay Wilshere around 85% of that figure. And now we need to do the same with Ings.
It’s not just that he’s offering us absolutely nothing on the pitch, it’s the fact that his £125k-a-week wages (Spotrac) are hindering Moyes’s ability to bring in new signings.
Danny Ings is painfully ill-suited to Moyes’s system at West Ham, and the fact that we paid around £15 million (Sky Sports) to sign him from Aston Villa on a two-and-a-half year deal now looks like a massive mistake.
The sooner we get rid of him the better. The problem we face is that there surely won’t be any Premier League club willing to pay a fee for him and cover his extortionate wages.
Maybe it will be better for us to ‘do a Jack Wilshere’ with him. If West Ham do that with Danny Ings, at least he won’t be blocking the path for new signings or talented young players anymore.
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