I’m a Premier League star who got the Tube to a match with my club’s own fans – they didn’t even recognise me

CARLOS SOLER has been capable to leap connected the conduit with West Ham fans and spell unnoticed astatine times this season.

But the anonymity helium is enjoying successful London whitethorn not past agelong if aboriginal displays nether Graham Potter are thing to spell by.

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The Spanish midfielder joined connected indebtedness from Paris Saint-Germain successful the summertime and endured a dilatory commencement arsenic the Hammers struggled nether Julen Lopetegui.

But having scored his archetypal extremity for the nine successful Potter's archetypal Premier League game, Soler is starting to amusement what helium is susceptible of.

The midfielder travelled to the Brighton crippled earlier this play connected the Underground from his Tower Bridge flat, without a azygous Hammers instrumentality spotting him,

He said: "I was suspended for the crippled against Brighton and I travelled to Stratford via train.

"I went with a batch of West Ham fans but they didn't recognise me. I was with them similar a instrumentality and I enjoyed it.

"I similar not to beryllium recognised. It's not a occupation to instrumentality photos with fans due to the fact that I was similar them erstwhile I was young. When I was successful the academy astatine Valencia, I saw the archetypal squad players and wanted to instrumentality photos with them.

"I cognize it's my occupation excessively truthful I'm good with that. But successful that infinitesimal I preferred nary 1 to recognise maine truthful I could spell with them and acquisition a matchday similar a fan."

He has thrown himself into enjoying London - precocious taking his woman to Cirque du Soleil astatine the Royal Albert Hall - but determination are immoderate aspects the Spain planetary is not a instrumentality of.

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Soler added: "I unrecorded adjacent Borough Market and I person to say, atrocious astir the paella here.

"I haven't tried it but conscionable watching it I know.

"People look to emotion this truthful if they travel to Valencia, they're going to truly emotion it."

Seeking crippled clip successful the summertime having struggled for a relation successful Paris, Soler made a deadline time dash for London.

Lopetegui pushed hard to bring him in, but was sacked past period - leaving his summertime signing successful an awkward presumption - but it is 1 helium is embracing.

Soler said: "It's ever hard to person a manager and the adjacent time person different manager.

"It's ever hard due to the fact that you person an idea. You are each time with them, with the staff, with a batch of radical that you deliberation everything is going to beryllium good, it's going to beryllium alright. But that's football.

"For maine personally, Julen was the idiosyncratic that made the large effort to bring maine here.

"But I saw that excessively arsenic an accidental for maine to bask a caller manager. I deliberation the caller manager has bully ideas.

"I similar the shot that helium wants to signifier present and to ticker successful the games.

"For maine personally, I spot that arsenic an accidental to grow.

"I had a batch of managers successful my career. I had 7 oregon 8 antithetic managers and from each of them I had truthful galore bully things.

"Of course, if successful the aboriginal I privation to beryllium a manager too, maybe, I don't know."

A determination into absorption remains a mode disconnected if it happens astatine all, though Soler volition person plentifulness of experiences to gully on.

From LaLiga, Ligue 1 and present the Premier League, arsenic good arsenic moving alongside, for him, the champion subordinate of each clip - spending a twelvemonth with Lionel Messi astatine PSG.

He added: "It's an acquisition that I'm going to retrieve ever due to the fact that playing with Messi, for me, helium is the champion subordinate successful history. The GOAT.

"Neymar, Kylian Mbappe, Marquinhos, Marco Verratti, Sergio Ramos. A batch of bully players.

"I conscionable enjoyed playing with them.

"Day by day, they are similar mean people. When you are astatine the club, evidently they are stars and they can't spell similar maine present with a train. But time by day, they are mean radical and that's the best."

Playing with Tomas Soucek and Max Kilman is simply a spot different, but Soler is enjoying it nevertheless - nevertheless helium is unsure what the aboriginal holds.

West Ham person an enactment to bargain successful the summer, but determination is nary clarity connected whether it volition beryllium taken up astatine this signifier oregon not.

He said: "I don't cognize astir that due to the fact that I'm conscionable connected indebtedness here. I don't know.

"If I archer you 1 thing, possibly successful 2 months it's going to beryllium different.

"I similar London. I similar playing for West Ham."