West Ham reportedly want £50m striker Allardyce almost signed for £6.8m in 2013
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West Ham United could have saved themselves a lot of time – and a whole lot of money – if they had got the deal over the line in 2013.
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In July 2013, Zapata was a little-known 22-year-old plying his trade in South America for Estudiantes.
At the time, The Guardian reported West Ham were closing in on what would have been an ingenious £6.8 million deal, beating Borussia Dortmund to the signature of a rangy centre-forward Sam Allardyce viewed as an ideal partner for Andy Carroll.