Quite possibly the worst ‘[West Ham Deadline Day](https://www.claretandhugh.info/i-cried-cockney-boy-fornals-revels-secret-moyes-farewell/) deal ever’ still smarts two years on: Considering the turmoil that has overtaken the Hammers in the time since David Moyes quit the club, it says something that fans still remember it : Just £6.8 million for pushing cult hero **Pablo Fornals** out of the club on deadline night seemed dreadful business at the time and it certainly hasn’t improved with hindsight.
Fornals travelled back to Spain and has been in scintillating form (in between being red carded for one monstrous roundhouse punch on an opponent!) for Real Betis and has been rewarded with his first call up to the Spanish national side after a four year absence.
_Hammers’ former cult hero Fornals recalled to Spain national squad after four year absence_
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Fornals, now 29, fell down the starting order at West Ham with the feeling always prevalent that David Moyes didn’t know where to play him: Left wing, left wing back, central midfield (just occasionally) – Fornals never complained but finally got his move back to Spain in January 2024 after being ignored completely for six months by the Hammers’ Scottish manager.
The [mirror.co.uk](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/spain-squad-pablo-fornals-recall-36209985) reports Fornals’ return to favour: _“Premier League cult hero earns first Spain call-up in four years to revive World Cup dream”._
Fornals will always be remembered with affection following ‘that’ goal in the Conference League semi final in 2023 but he was consistently one of the hardest working around the team during his five year tenure.
Nobody who saw it will forget his rendition of _‘West Ham are massive_‘ which went viral. Frequently seen posing with hammers fans for photos, the Real Betis midfielder still harbours a soft spot for the club he spent five years at. Can’t wait to see him get back into the yellow and red of Spain and hopefully make it to the World Cup finals: It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.