Sébastien Haller has received strong criticism from England. Rob Lee leaves in conversation with Football FanCast not a single bit of the Ajax striker, who would have been an ‘exemplary bad buy’ from West Ham United. Lee played sixteen games in the shirt between 2003 and 2005 the Hammers and did not score in it.
“Whether or not he was fit for the Premier League, he just didn’t perform well,” Lee begins his critical note on Haller. “I don’t really know whether it was a center forward. I don’t know if he was a right or left striker. I don’t know what people saw in him. He was simply not good. West Ham was lucky that they still received 22.5 million euros for him (from Ajax, ed.), But they will certainly have suffered a loss of 20 million euros. It’s a typical example of a waste of money, “the former midfielder sneered at both West Ham and Haller.
Lee currently sees a player walking around the Premier League who reminds him a lot of Haller. “He (Haller, ed.) Was a kind of Joelinton from West Ham: a comparable player and a comparable price,” Lee refers to the Newcastle United striker. The Brazilian came in the summer of 2019 for 44 million euros from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, but his transfer to England has not yet turned out to be an unqualified success. In the current Premier League season, Joelinton only scored three goals in 26 appearances.
Haller made the switch to West Ham in July 2019 after two impressive seasons at Eintracht Frankfurt for a record amount of fifty million euros. In London, however, the Ivorian could not live up to the high expectations, as he scored only 14 goals in 54 games. On behalf of Ajax, Haller has scored ten times so far and needed eighteen duels for that.
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