David Moyes has made a sickening new West Ham transfer admission about Ollie Watkins after seeing what might’ve been in the Aston Villa defeat.
Before West Ham’s trip to Aston Villa, Michail Antonio was proudly talking about how and why he has fought off the likes of Gianluca Scamacca and Sebastien Haller to remain the club’s number one striker.
But when the match came around he did little to back it up as his performance only served to prove West Ham must make signing Antonio’s heir a top priority.
The Hammers were linked with a plethora of strikers in the summer. And despite previous expensive attempts to replace Antonio failing to come off, it now looks a mistake not to have pushed the boat out to bring a bona fide forward in.
Especially if West Ham are serious about challenging the likes of Aston Villa for the European spots.
If Antonio was awful, Ollie Watkins at the other end was wonderful.
West Ham fans who follow the transfer windows closely may remember the Hammers were linked with Watkins before he signed for Villa and again when Steven Gerrard was in charge.
It’s hard to know what to believe when it comes to transfer gossip.
But David Moyes has made a sickening new West Ham transfer admission about Watkins after seeing what might’ve been in Aston Villa defeat.
Speaking after the game, Moyes admitted he wanted to sign Watkins before he joined Villa.
Instead he could only watch as Antonio toiled while England man Watkins scored with the kind of striker play the Hammers are sorely lacking.
“Yeah, we did (make a move for Watkins) when he was at Brentford,” Moyes said in his post-match presser – as reported by Birmingham World.
“He scored a good goal today.”
That he did.
And while Antonio has been an excellent servant for West Ham – the thought of Watkins leading the line instead of him at the London Stadium is a mouthwatering one.
If only West Ham had got that deal done ahead of Villa. I think we’d have rather the boss kept that one to himself for our own sanity!
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