Issa Diop Going To Sold?

Having devoted a disproportionate amount of time and print highlighting the catastrophic cost of Manuel Pellegrini's profligacies, it is with some distress that news of the potential sale of 'bright star' Issa Diop is eminating from the London Stadium, with AC Milan being his purported destination.

The list of Pelle'greedy's' poor signings is vast, however, Pablo Fornals, Lukasz Fabianski and finally Issas Diop were the exceptions, so to see the club were even countenancing a parting of the ways with the towering centre back does bring forward questions as to the wisdom of 'abandoning' such a talent.

Jose Mourinho once described Diop as a monster when the Frenchman dominated the opposition's attack, 'Sourpusss' even went on to congratulate who ever had 'found' Diop, in a less than thinly vowed barb to his own club's recruitment team!

Allegedly, according to football news Milan need Diop as a result of fans' favourite Alessio Romagnoli leaving the San Siro, if reports are to be believed. There is also talk about Milan moving for Diop, even if Alessio Romagnoli DOESN'T leave, so we can take it that there is genuine interest in Diop,but why on earth would the Irons sell him?

Ok he did have an interupted season, partly due to the player getting Covid-19, and apparently he had LONG Covid and was only just returning towards full health as the season drew to a close. Along with Fornals, Diop represents everything that David Moyes wants from his players, young, fit and determined.

Make no mistake, Diop is one for the future, Hammers will be making a MASSIVE mistake if they part company with Issa, the 23 year old has already stated his desire to 'progress' with the club, surely he is a better option than most of the players who have been offered in his place?

With money too tight to mention, keeping Diop is a no brainer, anyway the current market depression would mean Hammers seeing a return of much less than their original purchase price. David Moyes has managed to 'cull' Jack wheelchair, le Strop Haller, the calamity Roberto, AWOL Ajeti, hopeless Hugill*, quirky Quina, no loyalty Jeremy Ngakia and is on the way to 'removing' Felipe Anderson and Andriy Yarmolenko fro the club's books.

When talking about Issa Diop, Alan Shearer said: “A towering display. Everything he did was almost perfect. Reading of the game, tackling, pace, getting in front of forwards as he did constantly all afternoon. The awareness of what’s going on in and around him. He was immense…” Unfortunately Shearer was referencing a game played 18 months ago, it is NOT possible for a player to have regressed so much judging purely on their recent displays, like Fornals, Diop is young and took a while to adapt to the totally different styles of serial spender, Manuel Pellegrini, and serial saver, David Moyes.

Moysie, keep him! Diop represents the future, not the past! - Ed