West Ham’s midfielder is looking like one of the signings of the season but when he joined it went almost unnoticed, nor had he taken the orthodox routeIt was a struggle for almost everybody to notice beyond Manuel Lanzini’s preceding club. The Argentinian attacking midfielder arrived at West Ham United in July on a season-long loan from al-Jazira in Abu Dhabi and facts needed to be faced. When had a player last moved from the Arabian Gulf League to light up the Premier League?West Ham had taken a cast-off from the Gulf last February and nobody remembers Nenê’s three-month spell at Upton Park with specific fondness. The Brazilian striker had been released in January by the Qatari club al-Gharafa.
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Source: theguardian.com