Trevor Sinclair has told reporters that West Ham should have improved their attempts to sign Amadou Onana from Lille this summer.
Earlier this year, the Hammers had agreed to a fee for the 21-year-old Lille midfielder before Frank Lampard’s Everton hijacked the deal.
The Belgium international signed for the Toffee’s in a deal worth £31.5m (Transfermarkt) for a salary worth £100k-a-week. However, the Standard reported that the East London club had no intention of meeting the excessive wage demands.
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While speaking with TalkSPORT on the 30th of August (10.50 am), Sinclair suggested that he was disappointed by the Hammers’ inability to bring Onana to the club, saying:
“Onana, I was disappointed (West Ham) missed out on him. 6ft 4ins, a real physical presence. What I’ve seen of him at Everton, he looks the real deal.”
While many fans would agree with Sinclair, we can’t ignore the fact that £100k a week is a lot of money for a player that hasn’t even been proven in the Premier League.