Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere is immensely talented but frequently injured – should West Ham really consider making a move?
Anyone who watched West Ham stutter to a goalless draw with West Brom at The Hawthorns on Saturday will tell you that a player of Jack Wilshere’s creative ilk should be welcomed with open arms.
The Hammers have failed to score in three of their five Premier League fixtures so far this season and the absence of diminutive schemer Manuel Lanzini has forced Slaven Bilic’s side to operate without the only player on the club’s books capable of picking a lock.
No wonder Javier Hernandez has been anonymous in most of his outings in claret and blue so far.
Nonetheless, reports in The Sun that Wilshere is hoping that boyhood club West Ham offer him an escape route from his Arsenal purgatory have still left supporters divided.
Wilshere has played only 22 minutes of football this season, all coming in the Europa League group stage clash with Cologne last week, and will be a free-agent at the end of the season with his contract running down.
And the 25-year-old, who spent a decent season on loan at Bournemouth in 2016/17, could be exactly the kind of player needed to add an extra burst of acceleration and unpredictability to a rather one-pieced midfield relying on brawns rather than brains.
But then you consider his injury record. Wilshere has missed 87 games since the beginning of 2013/14 and, in Andy Carroll, The Hammers already have one perma-crocked talent taking up space in the treatment room.
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