West Ham United are reportedly keen on signing the Arsenal forward.
According to a report from the Daily Mail (live blog, August 4th, 19:12), West Ham have made an enquiry for Arsenal’s Lucas Perez, but is the Spaniard what Manuel Pellegrini really needs?
The 29-year-old joined the Gunners from Deportivo La Coruna in the summer of 2016, for a fee believed to be worth in the region of £17.1 million, but he has desperately failed to establish himself at the Emirates.
That isn’t to say that he doesn’t have something to offer in England’s top flight, however.
Perez is technically gifted, and plays with a certain kind of guile and nouse that would undoubtedly help improve plenty of teams in the Premier League, but West Ham are not one of them.
Manuel Pellegrini has already spent heavily strengthening his squad this summer, bringing in the likes of Felipe Anderson and Andriy Yarmolenko.
The Hammers are already well stocked with plenty of talented, easy on the eye footballers in the final third, and Perez would just be very much of the same.
West Ham need a clinical goalscorer, more of a poacher type player, and the Arsenal man just doesn’t fit into that category.
With just four days remaining until the transfer window slams shut, Pellegrini needs to act fast if he wants to bring in a top class forward, but he should be focusing his attention elsewhere other than Arsenal’s Perez, if he is to truly improve his attacking department at the London Stadium.
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