West Ham United’s on-loan Chelsea Colossus Axel Disasi has won over Hammers fans who were guarded in their reception of the Frenchman when he rocked up late on deadline day in January.

Rumours abounded of a lack of match fitness or even a ‘questionable attitude’ – all of which was dispelled with Disasi’s debut showing West Ham what they’d been missing from their back line for a couple of seasons.

Supporters knew Disasi’s recent history had been ‘challenging’, being part of Chelseas’ bomb-squad’ of unused, sidelined players who couldn’t even get into the match day squad: Incredible to see how quickly the centre -back has stepped up and become an essential part of West Ham’s quest to save their Premier Leg future.

Magassa- former team mate with Axel Disasi at Monaco

What is even more surprising is that Disasi used to be a team mate of another young West Ham player. A comment made in a recent whufc.com interview revealed that he shared a common club with fellow Hammer  Soungoutou Magassa. 

Speaking to whufc.com, Magassa lifted the lid on his early years as an AC Monaco academy graduate:

I was...