West Ham make improved bid for Kehrer

Dharmesh Sheth has dropped an replace on reported West Ham United switch goal Thilo Kehrer.

What’s the most recent?

In a current publish on Twitter, the Sky Sports activities reporter revealed that, following David Moyes submitting an opening offer for the Paris Saint-Germain centre-back on Tuesday, the 59-year-old supervisor has now lodged a second bid with the Ligue 1 facet after the membership’s preliminary provide was rejected – with additional reports suggesting Christophe Galtier’s facet need round £17m for the defender.

In his tweet, Sheth mentioned: “West Ham United have made an improved provide for PSG defender Thilo Kehrer after having their first bid rejected.”

Think about him & Zouma

Contemplating simply how gifted a defender Kehrer undoubtedly is, the prospect of the 25-year-old lining up alongside Kurt Zouma within the coronary heart of the Hammers’ backline will definitely be an extremely tantalising one for all concerned with the membership – not least Moyes himself.

Certainly, the £19.8m-rated expertise proved his potential over his 27 Ligue 1 appearances in his debut marketing campaign with PSG again in 2018/19, serving to his facet preserve eight clear sheets, in addition to making a mean of two.4 tackles, 1.1 interceptions, 2.3 clearances and profitable 5.1 duels – at a hit fee of 61% – per recreation.

For comparability, over Zouma’s 25 Premier League fixtures final season, the £25.2m-rated centre-back helped the Hammers preserve 5 clear sheets, along with making a mean of 0.5 tackles, 1.4 interceptions, 5.5 clearances and profitable 2.8 duels – at a hit fee of 59% – per outing.

Moreover, the £78k-per-week Kehrer additionally clearly poses a menace going forwards, with the 25-year-old scoring one objective, registering two assists and creating one massive likelihood within the French high flight that season, in addition to finishing a mean of 45.9 passes, 1.4 lengthy balls and taking 0.5 photographs per fixture.

These returns noticed the “two-footed” participant common an especially spectacular SofaScore match score of 7.00 in 18/19, a score that, ought to he have achieved at West Ham final season, would have ranked him because the Irons’ fourth-best participant within the Premier League.

As such, ought to Moyes consider he is ready to assist the Germany worldwide refind this stage of kind on the London Stadium this season, the Scot may nicely kind an especially lethal duo with Kehrer and Zouma – a partnership centre-forwards would concern up and down the nation.