Mohammed Kudus is “confident” that West Ham can finish the season strongly and believes that he can do even better than he already is.

In the modern game, £38 million really is not a large amount of money for a player. If you are going to get a good Premier league level player, you’re going to have to spend around that. However, £38 million for someone as good as Mohammed Kudus is an absolute bargain.

Since joining West Ham in the Summer, the winger has scored 12 goals across all competitions and assisted a further 4, which is phenomenal for someone’s first season in the Premier League.

Last season, West Ham were overall disappointing in the league, but that was instantly forgiven by fans when they won the Conference League. This term though, one of the goals simply had to be balancing European and domestic football, something Kudus believes they’ve done much better at.

“We’ve done really well managing the balance of European and domestic football this year, and we just need to keep that going in the next few weeks now,” he explained to the official site.

“Last season the team won the UEFA Europa Conference League but struggled a bit in the league, but with new signings and experience we’ve been able to perform on both fronts.”

Obviously, today’s clash with Newcastle is a massive game in deciding West Ham’s standings in the league, but the Ghanaian believes that he and his teammates can put on a performance worthy of all three points. “We have to continue with the same mentality, and that starts again against Newcastle. I’d like us to finish strongly in both competitions, and I’m confident we have what it takes to do that.”

While he has already produced countless moments of magic in claret and blue, his most spectacular by far was his goal against Freiburg. He picked up the ball deep in his own half and just kept running, showing off his abundance of pace, skill and strength to score, what he claims is, the best goal of his career.

“I’ve scored some nice goals during my career, but I don’t think I’ve scored a better one than that first one against Freiburg!” Kudus exclaimed. “One of my strengths is taking people on, and it wasn’t until I saw the video after the game that I realised how far I’d travelled with the ball.”

“With the celebration, I just tried to think of something different to what had been done before, and I have to thank the steward whose stool I borrowed!”

“I’ve enjoyed adapting to England and the Premier League – my home debut was against Manchester City, which was a bit of an eye-opener! I think I’ve done well, but like the team, I just want to keep getting better and be as successful as possible. Hopefully there are a lot more good moments for us all to enjoy in the near future.”

Anyone who has watched him play will understand just how special of a player the 23-year-old is. If he continues to develop how we all expect him to, there is every reason to believe he will be one of the best wingers in the world.