West Ham could land Raphinha 2.0 in Januzaj

West Ham haven’t had the very best begin to their Premier League marketing campaign, shedding their opening two matches in opposition to Manchester Metropolis and Nottingham Forest respectively.

Nonetheless, a minimum of a morale-boosting 3-1 win over Viborg of their Europa Convention League qualifier on Thursday can have given David Moyes’ males a confidence enhance heading into Sunday’s conflict in opposition to Brighton and Hove Albion.

It’s clear that Moyes wants so as to add just a few extra faces so as to bolster each the standard and depth of his squad forward of yet one more gruelling marketing campaign, and that’s regardless of the arrivals of Gianluca Scamacca, Thilo Kehrer, Nayef Aguerd, Maxwel Cornet and Flynn Downes.

With this in thoughts, the 59-year-old might face a reunion with a participant who he managed throughout his stint at Manchester United.

A report from Diario AS states that West Ham are eager on bringing Adnan Januzaj to the London Stadium on a free switch following the expiry of his Actual Sociedad contract in June.

Moyes gave the Belgian his debut at Manchester United again in 2013 and he was one of many few brilliant sparks in a tumultuous season following the departure of membership legend Sir Alex Ferguson.

West Ham face competitors from Everton and LA Galaxy, however Moyes will likely be hoping that his earlier reference to the participant, who price Actual Sociedad £9.7m  to signal him in 2017, will likely be key in any potential transfer to east London.

If the Belgium worldwide does arrive at Stratford, he might nicely be Moyes’ very personal Raphinha, with the 2 being deemed stylistically alike by way of FBRef’s comparable participant mannequin.

Each gamers provide important goalscoring threats, though the Brazilian netted virtually 4 instances as usually as Januzaj final season (11 to three). They each averaged over three shot-creating actions per match (3.67 to 3.66), which reveals that Januzaj has the flexibility to create alternatives regardless of his decrease goalscoring fee.

Ought to West Ham signal Januzaj?

Each of them additionally provided a risk from broad positions, with a mixed whole of 148 crosses over the length of the marketing campaign. If the Belgian replicates this with a transfer to the Premier League, West Ham summer season signing Gianluca Scamacca may be capable of enhance on his three headed objectives from final time period.

Paul Scholes as soon as described Januzaj as “brilliant”, and if the Hammers might safe the 27-year-old’s signature and he seems to be half pretty much as good as what Raphinha was final season, then Moyes might need made yet one more shrewd transfer within the switch market.