French membership Lyon are edging nearer to the signing of West Ham United centre-back Issa Diop.
The Ligue 1 aspect have now opened discussions to signal the 25-year-old Frenchman in line with L’Equipe.
Diop joined The Hammers for £22.5m in 2018 from French membership Toulouse, the membership he had come via the academy with.
Nevertheless, after an initially vivid begin to life in London, Diop has since struggled for type a while now, inflicting him to be the final alternative centre-back for David Moyes when he has had all of his choices obtainable for choice.
A switch payment of simply £10m has been tossed round beforehand over rumours about an enquiry being made by Newcastle United in January.
Diop has made 118 appearances for West Ham, together with 94 video games within the Premier League. He has scored eight objectives and contributed with an additional three assists for the membership.
At one stage Diop was taking part in so nicely he was linked with an unbelievable £45m transfer to Manchester United, however after all such a hearsay didn’t maintain a lot weight for very lengthy as Diop’s type slipped to see him finally lose his place in West Ham’s workforce below Moyes, who has opted for Angelo Ogbonna, Kurt Zouma and Craig Dawson forward of him in lots of circumstances during the last two seasons.