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West Ham fans reflect on Cheikhou Kouyate’s move to Crystal Palace

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How much have you thought about Cheikhou Kouyate in the last 18 months?

In the last 24 hours, fans on Twitter have been discussing his sale in 2018 and they all agree on one thing about the transfer decision.

The actual sale of the 6 ft 2 midfield monster wasn’t the mistake, not finding a proper replacement for him was and it’s hard to disagree with.

Only Carlos Sanchez was brought in during that window in terms of defensive midfielders with Edimilson Fernandes going out on loan to be let go of a year later.

Whilst Rice did move into midfield around this time, we’ve paid the price for not having sufficient cover in the position since and only now has Tomas Soucek arrived

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