About a week ago, we covered a report in Le Progres regarding West Ham’s apparent offer for Marcelo, Lyon’s 31-year-old centre-back.
Having already signed Issa Diop and Fabian Balbuena, it seemed a bit much for the Hammers to buy yet another central defender, but with Winston Reid out for the foreseeable future, perhaps it’s not the worst idea.
The French newspaper were reporting the Brazilian wasn’t left ‘indifferent’ by the personal terms offered by West Ham, and now it’s easy to see why.
An update on the situation published on Monday revealed the Premier League club offered to double the veteran’s wages with a transfer to London Stadium on a ‘long-term contract’.
As Le Progres state, at his age, it’s easy to see why he would be tempted to sign one last big contract before facing the inevitable decline all players go through once they hit 32 or 33 (unless you’re Cristiano Ronaldo).
This all happened while Lyon were on a preseason warm up tour, and the local newspaper explained a meeting was scheduled to take place on Monday between Jean-Michel Aulas and his defender about his future.
What has come from this, we don’t know yet, but we will undoubtedly find out in the coming days.
