On the latest episode of BBC Radio Leeds’ Don’t Go To Bed Just Yet podcast, Jonny Buchan, Simon Rix and Adam Pope discussed the departure of winger Crysencio Summerville, who has joined West Ham for £25m plus add-ons.
Buchan said: “For me, he could quite easily still become one of those players who has a year or two at West Ham, is in and out a little bit, doesn’t really do it and then ends up at Atalanta or somewhere random like that. We saw enough of him [last season] to know how great he can be but also to know how much he can vanish at times. In the Premier League, he isn’t going to be able to get away with that.”
He added: “I hope he does really well, but I would be on the side of him possibly spending a couple of seasons there then going somewhere else on a loan or something like that. That’s just a gut feeling I get.”
Pope said: “There was stuff with Summerville that I witnessed with my own eyes and I’m thinking: ‘You know what, that doesn’t fit in with the culture of what is trying to be built here’.
“Sometimes you have to live with that, the genius and the brilliance of it all, and he’s got some of that. I just felt at some of the crucial times it didn’t happen.
“But, it’s a lot of goals and assists to replace.”
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