Hammers Can't Even GIVE Anderson Away!

Someone at Lazio headquarters will be having a few sherbets this evening, having received the news that his club have been offered Felipe Anderson virtually for free from the same club they sold him to for in excess of £34 million only a few years ago.

Such has been Anderson's fall from grace, that getting ANY fee at all is seeming less and less likely, with removing his £85,000 per week salary the best the club can seemingly hope for. How can a player's value have nose dived to such an extent you may ask yourselves?

The answer isn't just a case of a loss of form, it goes far deeper than that. The Brazilian arrived with much fanfare at the London Stadium as one of Manuel 'Pelle'greedie's' galacticos, and for the first season at least performed admirably, but for some reason the Chilean who was managing West Ham at the time fell out with Anderson, unfairly blaming him for the club's lamentable form, consequently he was played out of position, suffered a massive loss of self belief and confidence and has never recovered since.

Anderson's ill-fated loan spell at Porto put the mockers on him rising to the fore again, instead he has become yet another unwelcome statistic of West Ham's atrocious past policies of player recruitment. The loan fee received from Porto DID cover Anderson's wages, but his catastrophic drop in value was exasperated and then accentuated by the fact, the newly installed manager at Porto hadn't sanctioned the loan deal in the first place and found Anderson's 'lack of commitment' seemingly impossible to comprehend.

Sometimes in life you have to draw a line in the sand for big mistakes made, the only way forward is to resolve never to be in that situation EVER again, have West Ham learned? We doubt it! - Ed