Cadiz striker Antony ‘Choco’ Lozano wants to stay in La Liga for “many years” despite interest from West Ham United, speaking to the club’s YouTube channel.
As an increasingly exasperated David Moyes explained at the weekend, it’s not as if West Ham aren’t trying to sign a centre-forward.
It’s just that, in a January market made even more complicated by the financial uncertainty enveloping European football, signing a top-quality goalscorer is easier said than done.
Arkadiusz Milik is heading to France, Adam Hlozek is probably too expensive, and 35-year-old free agent Graziano Pelle is more likely to end up in Serie A than the Premier League.
Noticias Cadistas claimed last week that West Ham had turned to a Honudras international, with a £13 million bid being prepared for Lozano.
But the former Barcelona B forward doesn’t sound like a man crying out for a mid-season switch.
“I think I was right to come here,” says Lozano, who joined La Liga newcomers Cadiz from Girona in 2019.
“Since I arrived, I have done very well here. We have had good results. We succeeded and now we are in the Primera, enjoying ourselves.
“I also have the dream of staying in the first division for many years. I want to fight for that dream with Cadiz.”
With three goals in 14 La Liga matches, Lozano is hardly the most prolific attacker – even if two of those strikes came against Valencia and Real Madrid.
But it must be said Cadiz are hardly the most free-flowing team either.
A disciplined, dogged approach has been the order of the day and, with Cadiz sitting ninth in the table and unlikely to change a tactic that has worked so well, Lozano and strike-partner Alvaro Negredo will continue to feed off scraps.
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