West Ham are on the verge of signing Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart on a season-long loan deal with an option to buy, reports The Daily Mail.
The Hammers want to sign Hart to show a statement of intent in the direction the club is heading and it would also solve their goalkeeping issue after switching between Adrian and Darren Randolph between the sticks last season.
Hart, who spent last season on loan at Italian side Torino, is free to leave City after being deemed surplus to requirements by Pep Guardiola last summer, but the club have failed to secure a permanent sale of the England international.
City were holding out for £20m but Hart’s stock has fallen so much since Euro 2016 that there were no suitors willing to sign the 29-year-old outright, while Newcastle could not convince City with their loan package that would only have covered 25 per cent of Hart’s wages.
David de Gea: Only Joe Hart (77) has kept more clean sheets than De Gea (75) in the Premier League since August 2011 pic.twitter.com/xMYBoXRNbe
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) June 8, 2017
Instead, Hart, who has regularly been linked with a surprise move to Manchester United, is on the verge of joining West Ham after they made it clear they were willing to cover half of Hart’s £100,000-a-week wages next season.
Only Palermo goalkeeper Josip Posavec (7) committed more errors that led to an opposition goal than Hart (5) in Serie A last season.
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