West Ham have relied heavily on club-record signing Marko Arnautovic this season, with the Austria international fighting back from the a slow start to life at the London Stadium to stand as the club’s leading light.
The 28-year-old has netted nine Premier League goals this season and registered four assists, helping the Hammers in their fight to avoid relegation, and he’s clearly very highly-rated by West Ham boss David Moyes.
So much so, in fact, that Moyes may have dropped a hint to suggest the former Stoke City man could be a future captain at the London Stadium- or at least that’s the stance being adopted by Claret & Hugh following the manager’s recent comments, where he said:
“The players look to him. He’s got a leadership role which he needs to develop as well as for the team and for the club, because he’s getting to an age where he has to influence the players around him, so he needs to lead by both his character and his performances, and his performances have done that in many ways.”
“He is vocal in his own way. He has good humour, he’s a character and I’d like him to put that talking about what he can do in training. To get to the very top, he needs to keep his level of training very high.”
Whilst Moyes avoided the word ‘captain’ specifically, his comments certainly suggest he’s a contender to take the armband in the future.
