West Ham United are interested in a deal to bring Djed Spence to the London Stadium in the January transfer window.
What’s the talk?
That’s according to ExWHUEmployee, with the Hammers insider revealing in a recent post on Patreon that, having been linked with the right-back previously, David Moyes is once again interested in taking the Tottenham Hotspur defender on a loan deal until the end of the season.
Ex went on to suggest that, despite Spurs typically not being overly keen to do business with the Irons, as a result of West Ham’s poor standing in the Premier League table at present, Antonio Conte’s side could be willing to sanction the 22-year-old’s temporary departure this month.
In his post, the club insider said: “Another domestic loan that we have reported that we would be interested in is Djed Spence of rivals Spurs. The right-back was on our radar before.
“Usually, Spurs don’t like to deal with us but given our league differences we are not seen as a direct threat this year and they may be tempted to offer him a chance for first-team football without needing to uproot and move elsewhere again.”
“Unbelievable”
While it is true that, following his £20m move to Tottenham last summer, Spence has been largely overlooked by Conte – playing just 41 minutes of first-team football this season – considering just how much promise the right-back showed on loan at Nottingham Forest last term, the youngster would appear to be an unbelievable signing for Moyes to get over the line.
Indeed, over his 45 appearances in the Championship last time out, the £19m-rated talent was in sensational attacking form, scoring two goals, providing five assists and creating six big chances for his teammates, in addition to taking an average of 0.6 shots, making one key pass and completing 1.8 dribbles per game.
The defender also impressed in metrics more typical of his position, making an average of 1.4 tackles, 1.5 interceptions, 1.1 clearances and winning 5.8 duels per match.
These returns saw the player who legendary Arsenal centre-forward Ian Wright dubbed both “unbelievable” and “swashbuckling” average an astonishing WhoScored match rating of 7.05, ranking him as Forest’s sixth-best performer in the second tier of English football – playing a key role in the Reds sealing promotion back to the Premier League.
And, considering just how poor Vladimir Coufal, Ben Johnson and Thilo Kehrer have been for West Ham so far this season – averaging disappointing Sofascore statistical ratings of 6.83, 6.75 and 6.59 in the top flight respectively – it would indeed appear as Spence would add a much-needed spark in the Hammers defence.
As such, while his signing may only be short-term, the argument that the England U21 international would nevertheless be an unbelievable deal for Moyes to get over the line this month is indeed an extremely easy one to make.
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