CHRIS SUTTON: I've heard there are some West Ham fans who still resent Jermain Defoe for handing in a transfer request at the age of 20, the day after they were relegated. Are they mad? Fourteen years later, he is a brilliant goalscorer. The club have bid £6million this week but I would go through £10m and even as high as £15m. Sign him. He guarantees you goals, he will guarantee their survival and their progress. He will be the master goalscorer they need in that new stadium. I can’t begin to explain how distressing it must have been for Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini to look up and see Simone Zaza. His runs were rotten. Payet and Lanzini have been criticised for being off colour, but they have had nothing to hit, nobody to find. It has been uncomfortable viewing. No wonder West Ham are in the bottom half of the table. ...read
Jermain Defoe would help West Ham get the best out of Dimitri Payet... the old master guarantees you goals
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