Reports that Hammers are closing in on a deal for Burnley's James Tarkowski are very wide of the mark, Moyes pursued Tarkowski for some considerable time before eventually deciding the player didn't really want to come to the club and that the price was far too high when Burnley declared they wanted £50 million for the 29 year old who was looking to regain his place in Gareth Southgate's England squad by joining a Champions League club.
Burnley will still be looking to get more than £10 Million for Tarkowski during the forthcoming transfer window, this figure for a player who is in the last year of his contract is excessive. David Moyes is NOT a manager to be snubbed and forget about it, so if you add in some of the comments attributed to Tarkowski when a move was originally mooted and the fact he has already turned the club down, it becomes clear that the defender no longer fits the bill, such has been Hammers upward curve.
It is testament to just how amazingly well Moyes has done that a player of Tarkowski's obvious talent is no longer viewed as 'suitable', or as good enough, to make the grade at the club. The situation does beggar the question as to whether David Moyes was EVER really interested in Tarkowski, or if he was using the supposed interest in the Burnley defender to mask his real target of acquisition, Chelsea's Kurt Zouma.
We know which of the two players Hammers fans prefer, the one who wanted to "come to a big family" or the one who "didn't want to come" because of his family! Zoooooouma- LN
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that we should not try for him, don’t want anyone that has knocked back our club. If we aren’t good enough when we are struggling then we aren’t good enough when we are going well. Besides every time I see him play I think we dodged a bullet.