Summerville explains two West Ham targets he failed to achieve – ‘clearly, that didn’t happen’

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Crysencio Summerville did not even come close to achieving his ambitions during a heartbreaking second season at West Ham United.

Despite quadrupling his goals tally and stepping out of the sizeable shadow cast by captain Jarrod Bowen, the £30 million signing from Leeds could not help the Hammers secure another season of Premier League football.

To think, Crysencio Summerville wanted to end 2025/26 in the top half of the table. Ideally, in a Europa League or Conference League spot.

West Ham United would finish up in the Championship rather than on the coattails of the Champions League, though.

Now, Summerville looks certain to leave the London Stadium for a club better placed to help the newly-capped Dutch international hit the heights he is striving for.

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Crysencio Summerville wanted to play in Europe with West Ham United

Speaking to Voetbal International, while Summerville opened up on how he benefitted from Mohammed Kudus’ departure, he would also talk about the ambitions which went unfulfilled under Graham Potter and Nuno Espirito Santo.

“With West Ham, I wanted to finish in the top ten at the very least and qualify for European football,” Summerville reveals. “Clearly, that didn’t happen.”

An early candidate for ‘Understatement of the Year’, there.

While historically smaller clubs like Brighton and Bournemouth secured a European spot, alongside a Sunderland side making child’s play of their Premier League return, West Ham would record the joint-third highest tally of points ever accumulated by a relegated side.

Summerville says his ‘ambitions are so great it’s scary’

Reports suggesting that Summerville could join Kudus at Tottenham have been played down in the aftermath of their demotion.

But with the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea, Napoli and Roma reportedly circling, Summerville’s desire to prove himself at a higher level means he is unlikely to stick around in the second tier.

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“I have written down even more personal goals, but I don’t want to say anything about them right now. In that regard, I am a bit superstitious,” he adds. “I promise I will tell you someday. You will be surprised. Be prepared!

“It is not for nothing that I have a lion’s head tattooed on my hand. I am a hunter. My ambitions are so great that it is sometimes a little scary! I express those ambitions within my own circle and I live by them.

“This is also the message I pass on to the boys I hung out with on the streets during my youth. Even though we don’t have the easiest background, keep believing in yourself. Keep going. Make yourself and your parents proud.

“Boys like Lutsharel Geertruida [who spent last season on loan at Sunderland from RB Leipzig] and [Brentford midfielder] Antoni Milambo come from the same neighbourhood as me. If we can do it, other boys from Rotterdam South can do it too.

“We used to have our own role models, and now we are role models ourselves for the new generation. That is a very special feeling.”