WEST HAM’s list of players up for sale this summer- apparently – includes most of the first team squad as Graham Potter launches a clearout before remoulding the squad in his own style. Anecdotally we’ve been told that apart from [Jarrod Bowen](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-hams-bowen-not-for-sale-stance-means-only-one-thing/), Aaron Wan Bissaka and Crysencio Summerville, pretty much anyone is for sale.
How that will work out come the start of pre-season with more than a dozen ‘transfer listed’ players rocking up at Rush Green is anybody’s guess. Hardly a joyful reunion with the coach who doesn’t want them. One who will be late returning is Mexican Edson Alvarez who last night became a double international trophy winner, scoring the winning goal in the CONCACAF final that gave his Mexico side a 2-1 win against USA and consequently getting himself named as player of the tournament.
_Winning captain, winning goal and ‘player of the tournament’ – yet Alvarez can’t get a game at West Ham_
Some achievement for ‘El Machin’ who can’t get a game at West Ham for love nor money.
Surely time for Graham Potter to reconsider his attitude to Alvarez. With well known disciplinary issues last season, Alvarez may well have been struggling for fitness under Lopetegui and slow, late to tackles and a walking yellow-card liability. However the Hammers desperately need leaders and Alvarez is certainly one of those. A double trophy winning leader to boot.
His high profile campaign in the CONCACAF tournament will, if nothing else, certainly have lifted his sale value so if Potter refuses to reconsider his midfielder’s reintegration that at least finding a willing buyer for the Mexican should be easier. Whether West Ham will do any better with the cash from an Alvarez sale is another challenge altogether for the recruitment team.