'Lingard can bring an X-factor to West Ham'

After an electric loan spell at the club during the second half of the 2020-21 season, BBC Sport's Simon Stone reported on Monday that Jesse Lingard could be returning to the Hammers.

Despite training with Lionel Messi's Inter Miami, the 30-year-old is said to prefer to continue playing in the Premier League.

Speaking to the Transfer Gossip Daily podcast, the Guardian's Jamie Jackson reckoned the move has the potential to be successful: "I like the fact he still wants to play in the Premier League rather than with Inter Miami where has been training.

"He's not accepting that he cannot play in this league anymore.

"He is only 30. He has lost his way a bit but his age suggests he can go again and he had a successful loan at West Ham when he was very fit and just looked really good.

"On his day, he can be an X-factor footballer. Maybe he is going to provide a bit of stardust to fool the opposition alongside the more yeoman qualities of someone like Harry Maguire at West Ham.

"If he does go, David Moyes would have to be happy with him, Maguire and James Ward-Prowse."