Premier League 2018-19: 3 resurgent players to watch out for this season

#3 Jack Wilshere (West Ham United)

Wilshere looks for a forward pass

In the summer, Jack Wilshere left his boyhood club, Arsenal for West Ham. With Wilshere falling down the pecking order at Arsenal, the move to East London represented the best course of action for the technically gifted midfielder.

Wilshere had catapulted himself into stardom with an exemplary performance against Barcelona in the Champions League in 2011. At that time, it was thought that Wilshere would usher in a new era of English football. However, he failed to scale the heights expected of him and now finds himself as one of the forgotten men in the Premier League.

Wilshere was in decent form last season for Arsenal but could not nail down a starting spot. With the arrival of Emery, it became clear that Wilshere was surplus to requirements at the Emirates.

However, all is not doom and gloom for Jack. For a player as injury-prone as him, he has remained away from the treatment room over the past couple of seasons, leading one to believe that his injury worries might just be behind him.

Having moved to West Ham, Wilshere would hope he can rediscover the magic that made the whole of England fall in love with him. He would have the experienced Mark Noble alongside him in the centre of the park. The best thing for Wilshere, though, is the presence of Manuel Pellegrini.

The latter likes to play an attacking brand of football and would give Wilshere the required freedom to flourish. The perfect indicator of this has been Wilshere’s displays in pre-season, where he has looked at his imaginative best.

At 26 years of age, this could be Wilshere’s last chance to fulfill his exponential potential. The boy who was dubbed ‘a boy with an English heart and Spanish feet’, might just have his second breakthrough season at West Ham this time round.