West Ham United U-turn in Jan Bednarek chase as Aston Villa emerge
West Ham United are no longer the leaders of the race to sign Southampton’s Polish international defender Jan Bednarek, according to Toby Cudworth.
The 26-year-old is likely to head out of St Mary’s on deadline day with Armel Bella-Kotchap ensuring he is unable to force his way into Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side and the Irons are keen on taking him to the capital on loan.
But Aston Villa are now suddenly leading the way, 90min journalist Cudworth believes, as they look to find an injury replacement for marquee summer recruit Diego Carlos.
“Hearing Jan Bednarek could now be heading to Aston Villa on loan and not West Ham as previously thought – transfer deadline day twists and turns have started,” Cudworth said via his personal Twitter account.
Bednarek is keen to find himself regular football to ensure that he can keep his place in the Poland squad which will head to the World Cup in Qatar in November.
Forget it
There is no time to dwell on failed transfer moves right now and Bednarek can be no different if Cudworth’s report is to be believed.
David Moyes still has work to be done to get perhaps one, maybe even two more players through the doors at Rush Green and if Bednarek is set for the Midland instead then he has to be forgotten.
Centre-half is not even a position that West Ham are in desperate need of anymore having signed two already this summer so why are the club wasting time in this pursuit?
They could really do with an electric winger to compliment Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta and Gianluca Scamacca in attack but there are no names in the pipeline.
It could end up being a much quieter deadline day than many supporters were hoping for but that is still better than a rushed and panicked purchase of an unneeded player.