West Ham United manager David Moyes says he will be looking for midfielders in January. And Scottish Premiership star John McGinn may be on his radar again.
West Ham fans will be encouraged by the fact that David Moyes placed his faith in prodigious youngsters Declan Rica and Domingos Quina in their 1-0 EFL Cup defeat to Arsenal on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old duo partnered each other in the centre of midfield at The Emirates and, if you believe the hype, Rice and Quina are the future of West Ham.
Nonetheless, it appears that Moyes wouldn’t have started the teenagers but for to injuries and Manuel Lanzini’s suspension. And the manager has suggested that he will target midfielders in January to ensure he doesn’t have to rely on such inexperience again.
“Tonight we were short on midfield players and generally we’re short in that area and we could do with adding a little more craft,” Moyes said in quotes reported by The Mail. “It’s an area we’re short at the moment. But January is never the easiest month to deal with.”
But will Moyes be tempted to turn to a player he was interested in during his time at Sunderland? According to The Mail, the Scot travelled to Easter Road on a number of occasions last season to watch Hibernian in action with midfielder John McGinn the star of the show.
The Scotland international, who won the second tier’s Player of the Year award last season, is a man in demand with Celtic and Nottingham Forest heavily linked. But with the midfielder valued at around £5 million – in the eyes of manager Neil Lennon anyway – such a fee may be beyond some of McGinn’s interested suitors.
West Ham, however, would have little difficulty paying £5 million to bring in arguably the brightest young midfielder in Scottish football.
And McGinn’s dynamic, thrusting performances from the centre of the park would be warmly received at West Ham, whose one-paced midfield has frequently been a cause of consternation among supporters.
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