Conflicting Zouma Injury News

There are growing fears that Hammers current record signing at the club, Kurt Zouma may have sustained an injury that might be worse than first thought during yesterday's FA Cup 4th round tie. After the game against Kidderminster David Moyes said “I think he’s okay. I was a bit worried. Obviously, the plan was not to play him as long but we made changes to try and get ourselves in the cup and stay in the cup so unfortunately, I was not able to bring him off earlier.”

Anyone who has played competitive sports will tell you that the real extent of an injury doesn't tend to manifest itself until at least 12 hours after the event, so it will be later today or possibly not until Monday morning BEFORE any complete analysis is available.

Our resident medical expert Professor Jonathan Abel, has told us that Zouma's injury wil see him MISS a minimum of TWO WEEKS of football, meaning the superb defensive marshal would miss the vital fixtures against Watford, Leicester and Newcastle!

This is really bad news for David Moyes's plans, as Zouma has only just returned from a two month lay off that saw Hammers form drop off the cliff! IF Zouma's injury is worse than anticipated, then the manager's no buy policy might really come back to bite the club in it's proverbial and represent a good bye to the club's top flight aspirations.

The folly of NOT strengthening the squad has to be laid firmly at David Moyes' table and it appears as if he might have played 'one hand too far' in the acquisition stakes, hopefully that will not be the case and Zouma will be back soon, but unfortunately it seems as if this weekend might merely have been a portent of what will be a really 'nervous' 2nd half of the season due to the paucity of Hammers' squad. - LN