Another good little yarn from Flying Kiwis (I'm a Patreon member). Didn't realise Reid still had 3 years on his Hammers contract. Thanks Big Sam!
"David Moyes: “Winston Reid is going to join a club in America on loan, everything being well. I don't want to give you a club just now, he's got to get through a medical and a few other things.”
There you go then, forget about the rumours and the innuendo, this one’s coming straight from the mouth of the head horse himself. Those words were spoken at Moyesy’s press conference midweek (ahead of the game against Liverpool... which West Ham lost, obvs) and they come after reports that Winnie had already rejected a loan deal from Charlton. Davie didn’t wanna name clubs but Sporting Kansas City and Nashville FC have both been mentioned, with the latter sounding like the ones that have won out for his signature. Interestingly the two cities whose teams took part in the AFC Championship game in the NFL a couple weeks back, maybe Winnie’s just a massive Derrick Henry fan. DC United have also had some traction... shout out to Ryan Nelsen. But Nashville SC it shall be.
Any move for Winston is complicated immensely both by his recent injury history, not having featured for West Ham in a proper game for nearly two years, and also his massive contract. A contract that he signed just after Sam Allardyce left the club and which, incredibly, still has THREE MORE YEARS to run on it. The end of the 2022-23 season is when he’s off the books for the Hammers which is awkward for all involved if he’s not going to be trusted to play in senior games. He needs to get his match fitness up after so long out but that’s simply not an option for a team still looking over their shoulders at the relegation zone.
Hence the move to Nashville SC - (that’s SC as in Soccer Club) – will happen on temporary basis as a loan deal. There had been chatter of a two year loan deal which would definitely have been a ‘run down the clock on that contract’ sorta move from WHU but the NZ Herald reckons we’re talking six months so as to allow him to return to London for the next preseason. Which, in turn, would mean leaving the MLS expansion side midway through their own season. Also, the Premier League transfer window has nothing to do with this one since he’s an outgoing fella so it’s the MLS window that matters for his registration and that opens on 12 February. He’s already in Tennessee for a medical, so they say. Expect word imminently."