West Ham now targeting the “technically gifted” star of 15 million pounds sterling

It is finally time, after a long summer, West Ham United are back in competitive action this afternoon.

Graham Potter’s Kick the side their Premier league Campaign with a game outside the recently promoted Sunderland.

On paper, it is a game that the Hammers should win comfortably, but as we all know, it is never so simple, and the Black Cats have made brilliant additions to their team this summer, especially in the former Arsenal Granit Xhaka star.

The Swiss international is still a leading player, and in an interesting development, irons are now linked to someone who would be his own version of him.

West Ham will target their own Xhaka

Although it was not necessarily an exciting window this summer, West Ham made some smart additions to the team.

Mads Hermanse impressed for Leicester City last season, Kyle Walker-Peters is an interpreter experienced in the Premier League, and El Hadji Malick Diouf impressed in pre-season.

In addition, it seems that the Hammers want to do more business before closing the window and now targets someone who could be their own Xhaka.

At least it is according to a recent Report by journalist Graeme BaileyWho revealed that West Ham is interested in Aleix García.

The journalist says that Bayer Leverkusen is someone “they love” and that, in good news, no other team seems to be for him right now.

He is not clear how Garcia would cost hammers, but he joined the German side for about 15 million pounds sterling.

If it is available today, this would represent an incredible business, especially since it could be their own Xhaka.

How Garcia compared to Xhaka

In this case, the comparison follows mainly from FbrefWho examined the players in similar positions in the best European leagues, the Champions League and the Europa League before concluding that Xhaka was the eighth midfielder most similar to Garcia in the last 365 days.

The best way to better understand how such a conclusion was drawn is to take a look at the hood, with the underlying figures in which the pair was closest.

In this case, these are notably measures such as gradual ranges, passing precision, the actions to shoot and create goals, the blocks, the passes live and more, all for 90.

In other words, like the Swiss international, Garcia is a fully-action midfielder who can more than help with regard to the attacker side of the game, but who is also more than happy to dig and do the dirty work when his team needs it.

However, the couple not only shares statistical similarities because they really played with each other in Leverkusen, and if the former star of Gérona Bouge this summer, they would probably follow his former teammate in the Premier League.

Finally, another force than the Spanish “technically gifted”, as Nicknamed by analyst Ben MattinsonSharing with the old AS Gunners is its ability to play in several midfielder roles, from six to an eight in box and, on occasion, higher than that.

In the end, although this is a surprising decision, it is a Ham West should be everywhere, because Garcia looks like what the player enters and improves his midfielder, just like Xhaka Will for Sunderland.