There are many times in the last couple of years that David Sullivan must have cursed the deal to bring Maxwel Cornet to London Stadium. David Moyes’ decision to bring the Burnley winger to West Ham for a £17 million fee hasn’t looked remotely successful. Cornet has been a failure at West Ham and still costs the club £55k in weekly wages.
His loan at Southampton failed to achieve anything except an early return to West Ham at Christmas. However – finally – as we’ve been seeing, loaned-out Cornet seems to have found his niche at Italian club Genoa under the coaching eye of former Arsenal star Patrick Vieira.
At the same time, West Ham are linked just this weekend with a defensive upgrade to Konstantinos Mavropanos that is expected to cost £12-£15 million – Genoa defender Koni De Winter (main pic).
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Back in the January window mondoudinese.it reported West Ham’s interest in the full back: At the same time there is talk of the Italian side wanting to keep Cornet as he’s finally found an appreciative club.
The two deals combined with Genoa in the summer – Cornet staying and De Winter coming to West Ham – would be a pretty good win for both clubs if the price were right.
Off-loading Cornet would be a real coup and bringing in a defensive upgrade: Financially the player plus-cash exchange deal could reduce West Ham’s layout to about £10 million for a ‘Mavropanos upgrade’, get Cornet’s £55k a week off the books and allow millions more to flow back into the transfer coffers with a sale of Mavropanos.