Are we too impatient?

January could offer a chance to patch up mistakes made in the summer. A successful transfer policy is key to any team being productive and being able to progress or regress to certain levels. Sometimes, players need to be sold because their sale can offer improvements in other areas that could be necessary. Though in contrast to this, players could be sold due to the fact that the role that they have been playing in has now become redundant. Likely due to competition or the formation that was previously played has now changed drastically.  

 

 

Although the January transfer window can offer a chance to change previous errors. Errors that have led the club into a false sense of security, wherever that is not having enough or too much cover, or the fact that signings that have been made for handsome fees haven’t been firing as well as they could have been doing. This case is certainly true with Modibo Maiga, a player who was brought in for a fairly substantial fee, but as of yet, hasn’t been the player that we had all hoped to have purchased. Is it the time to offload Maiga so early into his career, given the performances and results he has put in?

 

 

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Malian leave the club for a variety of reasons, one of which being his own frustration. When we signed Maiga, I thought he would be our first choice striker having seen his consistent goals to game ratio in the Ligue 1. Though he has been on the sidelines for far too long and when he has been thrown into the action, he hasn’t always lit up the scene. For me, his career so far at the club could be summed up by his very first appearance for the club on opening day, in the 90^th minute as we were one nil up over Aston Villa, Maiga showed pace, talent and skill when he beat a defender and the goalkeeper, he had done 95% of the job, but his shot was blocked off the line. Summing up his status as the nearly man of the season.

 

 

Despite that, maybe the biggest reason that is behind the potential exit of Modibo Maiga, who has been rumored to fail at the club, is the ruthless nature of Sam Allardyce. The previous summer, the one is which Maiga arrived at the club; West Ham United saw the departure of Sam Baldock and Nicky Maynard who left the club due to having failed to make a huge contribution to the promotion push. Maynard was at the club just for 7 months and Baldock 11 months. The nature of Sam seems to be that he needs results and performances from his strikers, but how can they make a contribution if time on the pitch is limited?

 

 

 

In my opinion Maiga still has a future at the club. In modern day football, it is obviously a results business and with the raising transfer fees starting to spiral out of control, demand for your money is as big a part of the game than its ever been. I believe that, even though Maiga has been rumored to fail so far at West Ham United, he has a future because of his age and the fact that you never know how he could do if Sam gave him a chance. Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Maiga a striker or not? Allardyce has rarely shown confidence in Maiga, who I think has shown signs of being a promising signing. If Maiga was given a chance and time I don’t see an error in this transfer, but I do see room for improvement in January.