We’re all well aware of the striker issues at West Ham United over the last decade or more, and one of those to fall foul of that was Albian Ajeti.
He joined West Ham for €11.3m from FC Basel in August 2019 but would only make 12 appearances, totalling 402 minutes, before eventually leaving to join Celtic.
It’s been a winding road since then and he now finds himself back at Basel, where Blick report he is finally putting ‘years of disappointment’ behind him.
They report that no player in the Super League has collected more scoring points than Ajeti this season, with five goals and four assists to his name so far.
He’s in the best form since he left for West Ham in 2019 and even put an unsuccessful restart at the club, which saw him out for months with a torn fibre muscle, firmly behind him.
That hasn’t translated into a starting spot for Basel, strangely, as he currently finds himself sitting on the bench behind summer newcomer Kevin Carlos.
That’s because he missed the first two games of the season with thigh problems, an absence that Carlos took advantage of and made his case in.
Ajeti has been sat on the bench since, despite topping the goalscoring charts and generally impressing. The misery isn’t quite over, then, but there are indications he is finally back on track after years of disappointment following that move to West Ham.
