Nico Gaitan could finally be heading to the Premier League with Aston Villa and West Ham United reportedly targeting the MLS winger.
Nico Gaitan has played for Benfica, Atletico Madrid and Argentina. He has won ten trophies at the top level and once produced the most assists of any player in a single Champions League season.
But he has also spent the last two years plying his trade in China and the USA. And, at 31, Gaitan’s best years appear to have been consigned to the distant past.
If you had told Aston Villa and West Ham United fans four or five years ago that this uber-talented winger could be on his way to London or the Midlands, they would be pinching themselves and wondering whether or not it was all just a dream.
Heading into the January 2020 transfer window, however, reports from the Guardian that Gaitan could finally be on his way to the Premier League have been met with a very muted response.
The play-maker’s contract at Chicago Fire is set to expire in December and he apparently has his heart set on a belated move to the Premier League with Villa and West Ham among his admirers.
But the Hammers, in particular, have endured more than their fair share of over-the-hill veterans in recent years. Alvaro Arbeloa anyone?
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