West Ham: Solhekol drops Ajorque claim

West Ham United could possibly be concerned about a deal to deliver Ludovic Ajorque to the London Stadium this summer season.

What’s the discuss?

That’s in keeping with Kevin Solhekol, with the reporter revealing in a current replace on the Sky Sports Transfer Centre (01/08, 20:56) that West Ham’s scouts had been certainly one of a lot of Premier League representatives in attendance for RC Strasbourg’s 3-0 pre-season victory over Liverpool on Sunday – with the centre-forward believed to be the main focus of the membership’s gaze.

The reporter went on to state that Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton, Leicester Metropolis, Fulham, Nottingham Forest, AFC Bournemouth and Newcastle United additionally despatched scouts to solid a watch over the 28-year-old – who is claimed to be out there for a determine within the area of £18m this summer season.

Concerning the curiosity within the striker, Solhekol stated: “A participant who we could possibly be listening to much more from within the subsequent couple of weeks performed towards Liverpool for Strasbourg on the weekend. He’s a striker known as Ludovic Ajorque – a 6ft 6in striker with an excellent scoring report and is obtainable for £18m.

“I’m informed the golf equipment that watched him yesterday had been Wolves, Everton, Leicester, West Ham, Fulham, Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Newcastle. He’s somebody we is perhaps listening to much more from.”

Think about him & Scamacca

With West Ham having already secured the £35.5m signing of Gianluca Scamacca this summer season, the prospect of Moyes additionally occurring so as to add Ajorque to his attacking arsenal forward of the Hammers’ 2022/23 marketing campaign will undoubtedly be an extremely tantalising thought for all concerned with the east London aspect.

Certainly, the £14.4m-rated Frenchman was in astonishing kind over his 36 Ligue 1 appearances for Strasbourg final season, scoring 12 targets, registering eight assists and creating 11 massive possibilities for his teammates, along with taking a median of 1.6 photographs – 0.8 of which hit the goal – making 1.3 key passes and profitable 5.9 duels per recreation.

These returns noticed the £14k-per-week expertise who Julien Stephan dubbed each “remarkable” and “complete” common an especially spectacular SofaScore match score of 7.10, rating the 6 foot 6 large because the joint 31st-best participant within the entirety of the French prime flight final outing.

As such, the prospect of the 28-year-old lining up alongside the 6 foot 5 Italy worldwide – who scored an arguably much more spectacular 16 targets over 36 Serie A appearances for US Sassuolo final season – in Moyes’ assault subsequent season is certain to be a terrifying thought for Premier League defenders up and down the nation.

This, coupled with Solhekol’s declare that Ajorque is obtainable for an especially affordable £18m price this summer season, leads us to imagine that Rob Newman should do every thing he can to kind what will surely be each a exceptional and extremely aerially threatening duo on the London Stadium forward of the brand new Premier League season.