Back in the winter transfer window, we are told [West Ham](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham-0-1-newcastle-player-ratings/) made a massive ‘U’ turn, having lined up a sale and then according to our sources inside the club, cancelling the deal solely on Graham Potter’s say-so.
Which is all a bit puzzling now.
**Luis Guilherme** was lined up for an exit which would have returned pretty much everything that the Hammers had shelled out on him after Tim Steidten’s much publicised and much criticised summer 2024 transfer for the Brazilian teen that cost something approaching £25 million.
However, after one ten minute cameo substitute performance, apparently Graham Potter ‘saw something’ in the Brazilian teenager and chose to keep him in the squad. Our high ranking source inside [West Ham told us](https://www.claretandhugh.info/hands-off-hammers-admit-bids-for-wonderkid-guilherme/) last month that with Summerville injured, ‘_the lad will get his chance”._
Since which time, we’ve seen _nothing at all of Guilherme._ As highlighted in many reports this morning, Danny Ings coming on in the 80th minute was non-sensical – Ings is a player who has already lined up his next club and is counting down the days on his Hammers contract.
Guilherme has pace, reportedly third fastest in the Premier League if memory serves me right from one of the many pieces I’ve written about him.
Surely you’d rather turn to a young, pacy winger who might be tomorrow’s hero instead of a thirty something has-been who can’t even outpace Newcastle’s slowest defender.
Graham Potter can point the finger at his predecessors in as much as it is not ‘his’ team but a squad inherited from hapless Lopetegui: He will be judged more next season after a summer clear – out, but why keep Guilherme in the squad and then ignore him?
There are eleven games remaining: He deserves a run in the side especially with no Summerville. _Entertain us, please. Give the kid a chance._