{"id":205809,"date":"2025-06-22T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205809\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:09:09","slug":"a-maverick-attacker-in-best-hammers-tradition-but-will-potters-style-strangle-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205809\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maverick attacker in best Hammers tradition but will Potter\u2019s style strangle him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When West Ham\u2019s maverick players are considered they probably don\u2019t come any better than the mercurial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/di-canios-top-three-goals-for-the-hammers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Di Canio.<\/a> Captain of the side, incredibly, Di Canio was a force of nature but hardly the easiest to coach \u2013 just ask Harry Redknapp.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Diamanti, Marko Arnautovic or \u00a0perhaps Dimitri Payet \u2013 all were unpredictable with occasional moments of brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham\u2019s striker search has encompassed another young virtually unknown talent described in a similar vein. Rangers striker <strong>Hamza Igamane<\/strong>, currently under consideration, would be another in the \u2018maverick, unknown and possibly mercurial\u2019 tradition.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Freelance analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ben_Mattinson_\">Ben Mattinson<\/a> in December, writing on his X \/ twitter feed summed up Igamane enticingly:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamza Igamane\u2026 Completely unpredictable, tonnes of flair and trickery. The type of player to try outrageous moves\/shots just because In today\u2019s modern game of systems, it\u2019s so good to still see pure street ballers shining BRING BACK MAVERICKS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which begs the question: Would he fit into Potter\u2019s West Ham? You\u2019d hardly credit the Hammers manager with flexibility, imagination and the required slightly bonkers style which would be needed to get the best out of the genius lurking within Igamane.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, from what we\u2019ve seen so far, Potter seems the ultimate \u2018systems, strategy and\u00a0strangulation\u2018 style-manager.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to be proved wrong: If the story regarding Igamane continues to gather traction, Hammers fans could be in for another shot of Arnie-style chaos. Not necessarily what is required to guarantee fifteen goals a season \u2013 but never dull, and \u2018the mavericks\u2019 certainly put bums on seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When West Ham\u2019s maverick players are considered they probably don\u2019t come any better than the mercurial Paolo Di&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-205809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114728597349635620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}