🦁 Premier League Player of the Week: There's a new starboy in town | OneFootball

Another week of Premier League action has passed meaning Christmas and 2024 are slowly creeping ever nearer.

There some great performances and stand out moments but our Player of the Week is…

Mohammed Kudus (West Ham)

Few saw West Ham having much of a chance when Kudus’s name popped up on their transfer wishlist, with the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea both sniffing around, but the Ghanaian made the switch to the London Stadium and hasn’t looked back.

The Hammers paid a reported £38 million to Dutch giants Ajax for the 23-year-old’s services and it is currently looking like a massive steal.

Kudus has scored eight goals in all competitions this season for West Ham, five of which have come in the Premier League and two having come from their most recent game against Wolves.

Both goals came on the counter attack in which he was set lose by Lucas Paquetá but still had lots of work to do.

On both occasions he drove seamlessly past Wolves’ helpless defenders and produced two strong finishes, the first on his left and the second on his right, to give David Moyes’ side a 2-0 before half-time.

His increasingly gripping influence on West Ham and wider football is becoming ever more apparent with each passing week.

His now dubbed ‘iconic’ celebration of running up to the away fans and sitting on the billboard, staring supporters dead in the eye with a tirade of abuse being flung his way, was replicated in Monday night’s match between Birmingham City and Leicester City by Stephy Mavididi.

The East London club’s technical director, Tim Steidten, is the man to thank for bringing Kudus to the London Stadium. Whilst bigger clubs were circling, the German flew out to Ajax on his private jet with the sole intention of bringing the Ghanian star boy back with him and he did not fail.

One major selling point for the 23-year-old was Steidten’s insistence that he would get to play with Paquetá despite the Brazilian’s heavy links to Manchester City.

Fast forward four months and Paquetá was assisting Kudus’s first Premier League brace. It’s a partnership that has blossomed on the pitch and the pair are a true joy to watch.

Kudus’s pace and drive were there against Wolves and have been all season, an invaluable asset to a West Ham team who have been sorely lacking speed and power up front over the years.

He is going to be sorely missed by the Hammers faithful when he heads to the Africa Cup of Nations in January with Ghana.