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Emile Heskey wonders if Seny Dieng would be better off staying at Queens Park Rangers rather than competing with Lukasz Fabianski for a starting spot at West Ham United, speaking exclusively to HITC.
After a seemingly endless series of loans, in Whitehawk, Hampton and Richmond, Stevenage, Dundee and Doncaster, Dieng has finally established himself as QPR’s number one.
Having never appeared in the league with the Rangers before September 2020, the late blooming Senegal international has now started in 35 of the last 36 championship games, impressing with his catlike reflexes and supreme self-confidence. .
So why would Dieng give all that to sit on the West Ham bench?
The Sun (April 11, page 67) reports that David Moyes’ Hammers are preparing a summer sale. But, with the ink still drying on Fabianski’s new one-year contract, it’s worth remembering that the grass isn’t always greener elsewhere.
“Do you support yourself as a player? Or do you stay where you are until you know that you are in a position to demand (a place of departure)? »Asks Heskey, the former England and Liverpool striker.
“If you wait and wait and wait and wait (on a big club bench), you end up losing six months to a year that you could have been playing.
“When it comes to goalkeepers, (Dieng) is quite young. And when you’ve been a regular all this time, why would you give that up to be in a bigger club or have more money?
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“Play the games, get the love, get more experience, and then you can probably choose which club to go to.”
Fabianski will turn 36 at the end of this month.
But while the Pole is not a spring chicken, he remains as dependable as ever between the sticks in a West Ham team dreaming of a place in the Champions League group stage.
“When you’re on the coaching staff, you know what your players are about. If you look at him in practice and he still shows the signs that he’s at the top of his game… and goalkeepers are totally different because they can play up to 42! ”. Heskey adds.
“As long as Fabianski shows that desire to work really hard in training, if he’s mentally fired up and he’s still ready, I don’t see why he can’t remain number one.”
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