Ryan Fredericks open to January West Ham exit
West Ham right-back Ryan Fredericks may be looking for a new club during the January transfer window, according to the Evening Standard.
However, fitness issues at the back could see the 29-year-old stay until the end of the 2021-22 campaign.
Injuries and lack of playing chances have limited Fredericks to just two minutes of Premier League football so far this term, with four other appearances across other competitions to his name.
Go or stay?
Harrison Ashby, 20, was deployed at right-back against Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday (22 December) in the quarter-final of the League Cup as the Hammers had no senior player available in the position.
Vladimir Coufal was suspended while both Fredericks and Ben Johnson are still injured.
The duo are closer to returning to full fitness, and while the former will not be walking into David Moyes’ starting XI anytime soon, could holding on to him beyond January make sense?
The contract of the former Fulham defender expires at the end of the season, and the winter transfer window is the Hammers’ best chance to get something from selling him.
West Ham will still be playing in three competitions and looking to challenge strongly in all of them, so Moyes needs all the options he can get at the back.
He has struggled to prove helpful in recent months, but he could be in the coming months if he manages to stay fit.
Fredericks can also play on the right-wing, and the Irons could do with him during the crucial second half of the season.
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