West Ham: Moyes dealt Wan-Bissaka blow

West Ham United have been dealt an enormous blow of their bid to convey Aaron Wan-Bissaka to the London Stadium this summer season.

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That’s in line with Simon Stone, with the BBC Sport journalist revealing in a latest put up on Twitter that, regardless of earlier reports suggesting that Manchester United may very well be prepared to half with the right-back within the subsequent 24 hours, Erik ten Hag has now confirmed that the defender is not going to be leaving Outdated Trafford previous to Thursday’s switch deadline.

In his tweet, the journalist mentioned: “Erik ten Hag confirms Aaron Wan-Bissaka will keep at Man Utd past Thursday’s deadline. As soon as Antony + Dubravka offers are full ‘We’ll go from September to minimal January with this squad’.”

Massive blow for Moyes

Contemplating simply how spectacular a full-back Wan-Bissaka evidently is, the information that Manchester United usually are not ready to sanction the £10m defender’s departure over the rest of the summer season switch window is certain to have come as an enormous blow to David Moyes and his West Ham switch crew.

Certainly, the £22.5m-rated expertise proved simply how astute a signing he would’ve been for the Hammers over his 34 Premier League fixtures in 2020/21, with the full-back scoring two targets, offering 4 assists and creating two huge probabilities for his teammates, along with making a median of 0.9 key passes and finishing one dribble per recreation.

The £90k-per-week defender additionally impressed in metrics extra typical of his place, serving to the Pink Devils hold 13 clear sheets, in addition to making a median of two.6 tackles, 1.8 interceptions, 1.8 clearances and successful 5.1 duels – at a hit charge of 58% – per fixture.

These metrics noticed the previous England U21 worldwide who Dan Gibbs dubbed “unreal” common a merely sensational SofaScore match score of 7.14, rating him as Manchester United’s third-best performer within the high flight of English soccer that season.

As such, when contemplating the truth that United spent £50m on the signing of Wan-Bissaka as not too long ago as 2019, ought to Moyes have been capable of land the right-back for simply £10m this summer season, it’s clear to see that the 59-year-old would have been sealing one thing of a steal for his facet.

Nevertheless, following Stone’s newest replace, it will now seem as if the Scot must flip his focus over the rest of the summer season switch window elsewhere – an consequence that’s positive to have come as a giant late blow.