West Ham United boss David Moyes has just been given a huge boost in his hopes of landing prime striker target Abdallah Sima.
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West Ham have been heavily linked with a move for 19-year-old Senegalese strike sensation Sima since he was recommended to the club by former Slavia star Tomas Soucek.
After the success of Soucek and his former Slavia teammate Vladimir Coufal at West Ham, Sima has been heavily tipped to complete a hat-trick of arrivals in east London from the Czech club.
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There was one snag for West Ham, though. Hammers insiders Claret & Hugh previously claimed that Sima preferred a move to the Bundesliga.
And there were reports that Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig were monitoring the striker.
But now a new report from The Evening Standard will give Moyes a massive boost as he looks to spend the Sebastien Haller money in the summer.
That’s because The Evening Standard claims Sima has had a big change of heart over his future and now wants a move to the Premier League this summer instead.
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“The forward’s representatives are in regular discussions with a number of Premier League clubs, with Manchester United reportedly interested as well as Arsenal and West Ham,” The Evening Standard reports.
“Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus have been linked in the past, but Sima would prefer a move to a Premier League club above all other options this summer.”
West Ham enjoy excellent relations with Slavia Prague since landing the bargain signings of Soucek and Coufal.
As a result the Hammers would be among the favourites to sign Sima this summer.
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Slavia’s president Jaroslav Tvrdik made a public admission over the kind of bid he would find it difficult to refuse in a recent interview (O2 TV Sport and iSport).
“In the winter, we had an offer of €10m (£8.65m) from a leading Premier League club. But we wouldn’t sell him for €20m (£17m),” Tvrdik told said a couple of months ago (O2 TV Sport and iSport).
““Now we know about offers for the summer, which range from €20m to €25m (£21.5m),” he explained.
“Of course, it is difficult to overtake, but the amount that The Sun speculates about (£30m plus) would be difficult to refuse. This is for five years of operation of Slavia, and we would still build a youth academy of Abdallah Sima.”
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