Mexico’s Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez Joins West Ham In Premier League Return

Hernandez will now fly out to Germany to meet up with boss Slaven Bilic and his new team-mates at their pre-season training camp.

West Ham’s eye-catching recruitment spree continued yesterday as former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez completed a £16million (S$28.5m) move from Bayer Leverkusen.

Manchester United fans are already wary of the threat posed by Chicharito following his move to West Ham.

Unlike last summer when it was more quantity rather than quality that came into the club, this year seems to be a very different story.

“We didn’t want to sell him but we got two and half times what we paid for him”.

But now it seems the Senegal global is preparing to make his comeback to first-team action after recently returning to full training, and according to a source close to the club the 27-year-old is making excellent progress. We were lucky he only had a year left on his contract with his club and that allows you to negotiate a deal. He previously played for Chivas, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Very experienced and has been everywhere and has scored goals. And he is still a boy, he is still young. “There are no easy games, you can see that the top 10 can change a lot. He was our number one target on our list of strikers”. It was a really nice gesture from him.

I’m not sure any manager could have done better than the Croatian did with West Ham in 2015-16, when they finished seventh and just four points off a Champions League place.

“But he is a good player who will always score goals, and I would always welcome him in my squad because he is a player who doesn’t need many minutes on the pitch to score a goal”.

The Mexican striker joins from Bayer Leverkusen having spent two successful years in the Bundesliga.

United have made quite a mark in the current summer transfer window by acquiring the services of experienced players such as Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hernandez.