West Ham: Almeida drops Zagadou update

West Ham United are closing in on a deal to carry Dan-Axel Zagadou to the London Stadium.

What’s the speak?

That’s in line with Pedro Almeida, with the Portuguese switch insider revealing in a latest submit on Twitter that, after being heavily linked with a transfer for the previous Borussia Dortmund centre-back this summer time, West Ham at the moment are in talks with the 23-year-old defender and his representatives relating to a transfer to east London on a free switch.

In his tweet, the journalist mentioned:

“Zagadou [to] West Ham. English membership is in direct talks with [the] French participant’s agent.”

“Unbelievable”

Whereas it’s true that Zagadou has seen his profession stagnate considerably because of a collection of unlucky injuries lately, ought to David Moyes consider that the previous France U21 worldwide is now over the worst of his setbacks, the 23-year-old would undoubtedly be one thing of an unbelievable signing on a free.

Certainly, after becoming a member of Dortmund from Paris Saint-Germain again in the summertime of 2017, the £8.1m-rated expertise extremely impressed over his 17 Bundesliga appearances in 2018/29, serving to his aspect preserve 5 clear sheets, in addition to making a mean of 1.5 interceptions, 0.8 tackles, 4.1 clearances and successful 4.6 duels – at successful price of 67% – per sport.

The £35k-per-week defender additionally demonstrated his capability with the ball at his toes, scoring two objectives, along with having fun with a mean of 71.8 touches of the ball, finishing 53.8 passes – at successful price of 88% – discovering his man with 3.2 lengthy balls and finishing 0.8 dribbles – at a 100% success price – per fixture.

It was an analogous story over the 23-year-old’s 15 league outings in 2019/20, as soon as once more serving to his aspect preserve 5 clear sheets and scoring one aim, in addition to making a mean of 1 interception, 1.1 tackles, finishing 50.3 passes, 4.1 lengthy balls, 0.4 dribbles and successful 3.9 duels – at successful price of 72% – per sport.

These returns noticed the participant, who Julian Brandt dubbed “unbelievable“, common a particularly spectacular SofaScore match ranking of 7.25, rating him as Dortmund’s sixth-best performer within the prime flight of German soccer that season.

As such, with Zagadou evidently being a defender who’s extremely robust in duels, glorious in his studying of the sport and intensely proficient when in possession of the ball, the signing of the previous French youth worldwide on a free would most definitely look to be an unbelievable piece of enterprise for Moyes to recover from the road within the coming days.