WITH THE World Cup just around the corner, fitness issues at the end of a long season are clouding several players’ chances of making it to the summer tournament: West Ham’s [Crysencio Summerville](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham-insider-reveals-huge-summerville-injury-boost/), of course, was omitted from the Dutch national side owing to his calf injury.
He must now be considered a ‘wild card’ choice -if his Hammers form returns ahead of the season end – and therefore present a compelling case for manager Ronald Koeman to add him as an untried youngster who surely would be worth the ‘risk’ despite not having trained with the Netherlands’ senior side..
West Ham’s **Edson Alvarez** has endured the season from hell, having left on loan to rebuild his career at Fenerbahce under ‘The special one’ – Jose Mourinho – only to find the Portuguese manager got the boot no sooner had Alvarez arrived. Worse was to follow: Alvarez’ ankle injury has gotten worse despite his best attempts to play through the pain and Alvarez finally had to go under the knife a couple of weeks ago.
His World Cup future looked bleak – but according to today’s [sportwitness.co.uk](https://sportwitness.co.uk/injured-west-ham-player-continuing-his-treatment-in-netherlands-director-on-his-return/), ‘El Machin’ now looks like aiming for a return to playing next month:
**“**_West Ham United’s Edson Álvarez is in contention to return to the pitch with Fenerbahçe in April…The West Ham owned player has missed over 100 days and 20 matches already for the Yellow Canaries. “_
Which would be a massive boost for Mexico, hoping their talismanic captain will be back for the World Cup: Alvarez of course would be returning to east London at the end of the Turkish season in any case when his loan ends, as the Turks are quoted at ‘baulking’ at the huge £19 million option to make his loan permanent.