The Senegal striker has struggled with injury all season.
West Ham’s Diafra Sakho in action with Watford’s Sebastian Prodl
West Ham United fans are still waiting to see Diafra Sakho in action again this season. He last played, and scored, in a 1-1 draw with Manchester United in November.
Since then, he has been out with a back problem and West Ham have missed his goalscoring habit.
But they very nearly sold him in the summer anyway. In the summer he tried forcing through a move to West Brom, in a deal reported by the Birmingham Mail to be in the region of £16 million, which would have been a club record for the Baggies.
However, he failed a medical at the club and returned, tail between legs, to the Hammers.
West Ham United’s Diafra Sakho scores their first goal
The problem for West Ham now is this … who in their right mind would pay £16 million for Sakho now?
His failed medical at West Brom appears to have been justified, based on his lack of action this term.
No team will want to splurge out that amount of money for a player they will not consider fully fit.
West Ham will simply have no chance of getting that amount of money for the player this summer.
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