David Moyes has revealed that West Ham have been near signing Cole Palmer earlier than his transfer to Chelsea final summer time.
West Ham held talks with Manchester Metropolis over a deal to signal Palmer after the 21-year-old expressed a need to depart the Premier League champions searching for common first-team soccer.
The Hammers had been in negotiations with Metropolis over a deal to promote Lucas Paqueta, which finally didn’t materialise, and Moyes has revealed Palmer was ‘shut’ to heading to East London in the wrong way.
Palmer has been one of many gamers of the Premier League season and has scored 20 objectives within the prime flight this season, one behind Erling Haaland within the race for the Golden Boot.
Talking at his pre-match press convention forward of going through Palmer and Chelsea this weekend, Moyes revealed how shut he got here to touchdown the ahead.
“[We were] shut, shut,” Moyes stated. “You possibly can most likely think about the opposite a part of it, the place there was a risk of any individual leaving right here which could have made that work.
“I used to be in common contact along with his agent and we have been properly on the street with it however it simply modified on the finish and we couldn’t do it.
“I watched him enjoying for England U21s commonly and I believed he was their standout participant. I used to be all the time eager to usher in British gamers.
“The larger drawback was that he performed in the identical place as Jarrod Bowen however I had the thought of Jarrod changing into a centre-forward.
“Lee Carsley, who was one in every of my ex-players [at Everton] as properly and the England U21 supervisor, was all the time giving me recommendation on their gamers and Cole particularly.
“He spoke so extremely about him and what he was like. We knew he might play a number of positions and let’s be honest, he’s been a revelation this 12 months for Chelsea.”
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