West Ham in race to sign Premier League “proven goalscorer”

On prime of bringing by way of their very own gifted children, West Ham United have made a behavior of signing iconic gamers in the direction of the top of their careers in latest a long time.

For instance, the likes of Ian Wright, Samir Nasri, Joe Cole – the second time spherical – and Freddie Ljungberg all donned the Claret and Blue of their latter taking part in years.

Nonetheless, whereas many of those ageing stars have been by no means actually greater than okay, there was one who did extremely properly in East London: Teddy Sheringham.

The boyhood fan joined the Hammers after leaving Portsmouth in the summertime of 2004 and over the following three seasons would rack up 30 targets and 6 assists in 86 video games, whereas additionally turning into the oldest goalscorer in Premier League historical past.

The Englishman was a superb signing for West Ham, and so followers needs to be enthusiastic about studies linking them to somebody who might be their new Sheringham.

West Ham goal their new Sheringham

It has been an attention-grabbing summer season for West Ham United to this point this yr, as they’ve made a couple of signings that would genuinely enhance the beginning line-up, equivalent to Kyle Walker-Peters and Mads Hermansen.

Nonetheless, they’ve nonetheless not accomplished sufficient available in the market, particularly because the solely out-and-out attacking addition to this point has been Callum Wilson, who is perhaps gifted however is virtually all the time injured.

Fortuitously, the East Londoners seem like concentrating on one other centre-forward signing, somebody who’s older than the previous Newcastle United star, but in addition has the potential to be extra impactful and like Potter’s personal Sheringham.

No less than that’s in line with a latest report from The Solar, which has claimed West Ham are considering signing Jamie Vardy.

The report has revealed that Hammers are one in every of a variety of groups vying for the Englishman’s signature, together with Brentford, Wrexham and Celtic, which appears to be his most popular vacation spot for the time being.

Nonetheless, as he’s now a free agent, the Irons would certainly be capable to supply him a extra profitable contract than the Hoops, and the possibility to maintain on taking part in within the Premier League.

In all, if West Ham have the possibility to signal Vardy, they need to take it, as even at his age, he was efficient within the top-flight, and will even grow to be the brand new Sheringham.

Why Vardy might be the brand new Sheringham

Now, whereas we would not anticipate Vardy to be fairly as profitable at West Ham as Sheringham was, he actually nonetheless has loads to present and shares some key similarities with the retired nice.

The primary and unavoidable one is the straightforward proven fact that he’d be one other star participant becoming a member of the membership within the last years of his profession.

Secondly, he is not only a nice of his former membership, however of the Premier League on the whole, because of his half in Leicester Metropolis’s very unlikely of triumphs a decade in the past.

Furthermore, he is additionally a former England worldwide, and whereas he was part of the disastrous EURO 2016 marketing campaign, he additionally made 4 appearances on the 2018 World Cup, the place Gareth Southgate led the crew to the semi-finals for the primary time since 1990.

Lastly, as he is set to show 39 in January, if the previous Foxes legend was in a position to preserve his health and stay with the membership for a few seasons, there isn’t any cause why he could not break Sheringham’s document of being the oldest goalscorer in Premier League historical past.

With all of that mentioned and forgetting the comparisons to the previous Irons star, the East Londoners could be sensible to signal the 38-year-old regardless.

In any case, regardless of taking part in for a horrible Leicester facet final season that went again all the way down to the Championship, he was nonetheless in a position to rating ten targets and supply 4 assists in simply 36 appearances, totalling 2899 minutes.

That implies that the “confirmed goalscorer,” as dubbed by former skilled Jermaine Pennant, was in a position to preserve a mean of a aim involvement each 2.57 video games, or each 207.07 minutes.

Having somebody able to that within the squad and on the bench in video games might earn Potter and Co. a couple of extra factors throughout the season, which might be the distinction in what appears like it is going to be a brutal marketing campaign.

Finally, whereas some may flip their noses up at signing somebody so outdated, West Ham ought to do what they will to convey Vardy to the London Stadium this summer season, as he might simply be their subsequent Sheringham.