A sign of things to come?
That seems to be what one former player thinks could be on the horizon for West Ham United after the sale of Grady Diangana last week.
Speaking to Football Insider, former Premier League player Danny Mills explained how he thinks that this sale could eventually lead to the floodgates opening at the London Stadium, and a couple more players departing, basically implying that if someone as talented as Diangana isn’t safe, then nobody truly is:
“West Ham have a lot of technical players, good players but they have not performed nearly enough. The transfer policy has not been fabulous over the past few seasons. If they are willing to sell Diangana and send him out to West Brom then I would say that there are four or five other players in David Moyes’s squad that the club would be happy to sell if reasonable offer came in for them.”
Were the club wrong to sell Diangana?
Yes
No
I think we know that this is an inevitability, there was the report a few weeks ago that listed a number of players that the club were happy to negotiate a sale for. The main question then becomes will those players be ‘high quality’ ones, or will they all be the dregs that we can in a sense afford to lose?
I’ve put forward the idea before of the club selling off some of our high profile and high-value players, but there does need to be some form of balance about who we let go. Of the players on that previous list, there are a couple I wouldn’t mind seeing leaving.
And given the choice of four or five of them like Mills predicts rather than one big player like Issa Diop or Declan Rice, I’d rather the former option.
What about you though? Do you see the Diangana sale as a sign of things to come? Or do you think this was just an anomaly?
