With an extended winter window is it West Ham’s chance to finally bring in another striker, or is it time to give the rumours a rest and accept the inevitable feeling that no signings will be incoming?
Under Potters reign so far we’ve seen the boss utilise the youth academy but the majority of our promising attacking youth are practically all out on loan!
George Earthy alongside Callum Marshall are both currently out on loan and the Hammers sealed their own fate through negotiations due to not having a recall option.
So with the use of youth out the window regarding the attacking options, our hope is left to Uncle Ingy, or dithering Dave upstairs.
The latest news is disappointing, to say the least.
‘Still Looking FC’ has struck again with Taiwo Awoniyi being ruled out due to Nottingham Forest’s vast price point, along with RB Leipzig’s Andre Silva starting to run out of patience with us as we’ve been delaying for a couple of weeks now.
The latest rumour to spark up and crash down would be Bryan Brobbey, the young Dutch international who had reportedly flown to London in an attempt to force a move to us.
Ajax stated that it would take a 6-month loan with an obligation to buy of €30,000,000.
However, a reoccurring theme of the club ‘not having enough money’ keeps coming up, despite our supposed £57,000,000 bid for Jhon Duran, which was rejected earlier this month.
The club is still weighing up the decision to go for Evan Ferguson on loan from Brighton, with the Seagulls now open to the idea of a loan deal which earlier on the window they refused to accept.
Ferguson is said to be Potters’ number-one choice, yet his injury record is causing us a headache in deciding whether to go for him or not.
So, with all our current striker targets seemingly ruled out and with a week left in the transfer window, should we attempt to scramble a striker in and bite the bullet on another potential failure of a striker?
Or should we learn our lesson, attempt to wait and let Kyle work with Potter to come up with some targets.
The only downside to this would be that we obviously wouldn’t have anyone for the remainder of the season due to Fulkrug’s lengthy spell-out.
Swings and roundabouts for West Ham at the minute…
Comments
The major transfer coup was
The major transfer coup was Potter replacing JLo. But knowing how desperate we are in certain areas you would have thought at least one of these positions would have been resolved by now. With 1 or 2 good signings. The good will & confidence Potter has restored to the place we have an outside chance of Conference League.
We've been desperate up front
We've been desperate up front for years now and despite buying two world class forwards, neither could adapt to out style of play at the time. So it is with dithering dave again who must be having hourly calls with his trusted agents about getting a cheapy in under the radar that will score 40goals for us. Hence we'll sign nothing and it will be left to Potter to get by with what we have
Just a thought. With Duran
Just a thought. With Duran seemingly on his way to the Saudia for just £7m more than the Little Ine offered. Victor Boniface who was the original target of the Arabs for a lesser fee of £46m is now available? Was we not after him ladt season?
wont surprise me
if after the chelski match we hear west have signed nobody ,might get Fergy on loan but are you expecting him to pass a medical hes been out 6 weeks from when he was playing in a cup game just before Christmas- now on loan maybe but if your looking to chance 20 million no way would even WHU take that chance Potter has got Summerville and Bowen back 15 more games to the end of the season all Sullivan's interested in is TV rights, renaming the fishbowl and fleecing the season ticket holders, who have kids, the disabled, and senior supporters Conference league? forget that till next summer
I think it speaks volumes
I think it speaks volumes that despite being at the BOM since 2016 no naming rights have been secured.