West Ham are concerned that Manuel Lanzini could be out for most of the 2018/19 campaign following his injury with Argentina, according to a club insider.
The Hammers are yet to assess the midfielder’s knee injury, which his nation revealed via a tweet on their official account on Friday, that has ruled him out of the World Cup this summer.
[PARTE MÉDICO] Manuel Lanzini sufrió, en el entrenamiento matutino de hoy, la rotura del ligamento cruzado anterior de su rodilla derecha. pic.twitter.com/lmYEVr5YaV
— 🇦🇷 Selección Argentina ⭐⭐⭐ (@Argentina) June 8, 2018
According to a tweet by ExWHUemployee, an insider source of information at the London club, the Hammers fear that he be could out for most of the upcoming campaign due to his injury.
Absolutely gutting News about Lanzini. The club are concerned about the injury but won’t know full extent until our doctors have assessed but at the moment they fear he could be out for most of next season 😢⚒
— ExWHUEmployee (@ExWHUEmployee) June 9, 2018
OPINION
It was a huge blow to the Hammers when Argentina tweeted to share that the player had damaged his cruciate ligament. While the majority of supporters aren’t medically trained professional that injury tends to occur a lot in football and always sees a player stuck on the sidelines for a huge amount of time. While the insider is quick to point out that the club haven’t been able to get the full extent of Lanzini’s injury as their medical team haven’t seen it, it’s still a worry that the club fear he will miss a lot of games. The 25-year-old was one of a few positives in the Hammers’ 2017/18 campaign and fans know that the club need him fit in order to push on. Lanzini dazzled in a lot of his 29 appearances and to think that fans will have to wait to see some of his attacking magic is a hard thought to bare. The midfielder currently earns £70,000-a-wk (source: Spotrac) and the only positive to his injury is that the club will have time to tie him down to a new deal.
