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Felipe Anderson’s woes continue during his loan move from West Ham to FC Porto. Shortly after arriving he was warned that his temporary spell away from the Premier League wasn’t simply a gap year, and then there were further issues with agents.

Having only managed 49 minutes of Liga NOS football so far this season, he’s not even been part of Porto’s match-day squad for the past three league fixtures. Similar misery has followed him in the Champions League, where he hasn’t played a single minute for the Portuguese club.

A Bola have spoken to one of Felipe Anderson’s former teammates, Bruno Pereirinha, who played with the Brazilian during his time at Lazio. When trying to explain the West Ham man is actually a good player, interest from Manchester United was brought up.

Pereirinha insisted he wasn’t shocked when West Ham paid around €40m to Lazio for the transfer, because there’d been serious interest from Old Trafford: “I was not surprised because he had also been close to signing for Manchester United. But at the time, Lazio did not want to do without him.”

Manchester United were linked repeatedly during the player’s time at the Serie A club, and it seems there was genuinely something in the claims.

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