Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori snubbed a move to West Ham United just three months ago but is now ready to leave.
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With five centre-backs, Frank Lampard and the Blues were looking to move one of them on.
And West Ham swooped to take the 23-year-old England international on loan on deadline day back in October.
Tomori snubbed West Ham move
A deal was agreed with Chelsea, but the defender himself turned down the chance to leave for the Hammers 10 minutes before the window closed (The Sun).
Tomori later explained on the Chelsea Mike’d Up Pod that he turned down the move because he didn’t like the last minute nature of the deal.
West Ham went for experience instead, signing Craig Dawson on loan from Watford.
Dawson has showed excellent form. And since making his debut away at Southampton, West Ham have kept three clean sheets in a row.
Untested defender looks set for Milan move instead but good luck getting a game
Now, a few months on, and without a single appearance since Moyes’s target Tomori looks all set for a loan move to AC Milan.
The move will have a rather ambitiously steep £27million option to buy (Daily Mail).
That’s despite Tomori still being totally unproven in the top flight.
In fairness to Tomori, Milan are a huge club. Whether he will get game time there is another matter entirely.
The Italian giants lead Serie A nearing the halfway stage. And they are on course to be in with a shout of their first league title in a decade.
Hammers boss Moyes has more important transfer priorities this time around
But West Ham have moved on. And Moyes has other more pressing priorities and targets this window.
After selling Sebastien Haller to Ajax for £20m last week, West Ham desperately need a new forward.
Moyes has been linked with a plethora of forwards.
Some have since moved to other clubs. But the focus seems to be on Reims striker Boulaye Dia.
West Ham are said to be in discussions with Reims over the signing of Dia (first reported by Le 10 Sport).
And West Ham insider ExWHUemployee claimed this week that the club are also in talks over other – as yet – unnamed forwards.
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