16 May 2011
Nigeria international Victor Nsofor will not go down with relegated West Ham and hopes to stay up in the English top flight with either Fulham or Aston Villa.
The 24-year-old striker has already told MTNFootball.com exclusively that he will be a free agent at the end of the season after Italian club Inter Milan failed to evoke a clause in his contract that would have kept him at the San Siro.
Italian club Napoli may also have revived their interest in Nsofor, but the player has told close associates he will rather stay back in the English Premier League.
Obi wants to stay in the English Premier League and what is very certain is that he will not go down to the Championship with West Ham, who were relegated on Sunday, a source close to Nsofor informed MTNFootball.com.
He has two offers to consider, either Fulham or Aston Villa. He is seen as a direct replacement for Ashley Young, who is most likely to quit Villa soon.
He also has an option of heading back to Italy to star for Napoli. He was very close to joining them before he eventually came on loan to West Ham.
After failing to find the back of the net on his arrival in England, Obinna soon hit a rich vein of form during which he banged in a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest in the fourth round of the FA Cup. Three days later, he cracked a brace at Blackpool in a 3-2 win in the league.
However, a combination of injury and his red card against Birmingham in the League Cup semi-final froze him out of the starting XI of the London Hammers.
On Sunday, he was not even on the bench as West Ham threw away a 2-0 first half lead at Wigan Athletic to lose 3-2 and seal their return to the English lower tier.
In total, Nsofor played 24 matches and scored eight goals for the London outfit since his move in August.
West Ham had regained their place in the EPL in 2005.
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