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At the end of the 2024/25 Premier League season, there was a lot of talk about signings, coaching staff, and players leaving. Since time has now passed, the club have decided not to renew Lukasz Fabianski's contract, as well as release Xavi Valero as a goalkeeper coach to replace him with two others. The first of which being confirmed as Linus Kandolin, the 34-year-old has been poached from IF Elfsborg, where he'd spent over half a decade and before that worked with Graham Potter previously at Ostersunds FK for three years.

However, ain't no point in having a goalkeeper coach with no goalie!

The club have been identifying targets and started to make moves with the following four players being the ones most considered: Mads Hermansen, Aaron Ramsdale, Robert Sanchez and most recently, Zion Suzuki.

The club's primary two targets of those four are Mads Hermansen from Leicester and Zion Suzuki from Parma.

Hermansen has been a player that West Ham have been monitoring since the end of the season, with a £12,000,000 price tag expected to be enough for the Danish international he's been high on the watch list, however, Zion Suzuki offers an opportunity that Sulky Sull has been desperate for which is the Asian market, despite being born in the USA, the 6'3 keeper originally comes from Ghana and Japan and chooses to officially represent Japan as his choice of nation due to being raised there.

Talks have already been going on for the pair of them, with Suzuki taking the 'top target' title for the moment and with reasonable personal terms and a reasonable requested fee on the table, the club anticipate that this transfer could move very quickly due to how eager the board and Potter are to have this deal over the line.

Action and movement in the window has finally arrived, two names have finally been revealed, after a lot of fake ones, with the Hammers now interested in Charlie Cresswell and El Hadji Malick Diouf.

The Englishman who’s currently playing for Toulouse has been valued at £18,000,000 and is a player that Graham Potter & his team highly admire. Due to struggles with French finances, it is a real possibility that a deal could be completed for around the £15- £18 million mark.

Charlie Cresswell joined Toulouse last season for just €4,500,000, so the French side is aiming to 4x their original investment for the Englishman.

Another player who is closely on the radar is El Hadji Malick Diouf, the 20-year-old who is regarded as a youth prospect who would go straight into the squad and interchange with Scarles, as Emerson will leave the club this window.

Sparta Prague are demanding another €5 million on our €20 million offer. It is something that doesn’t seem far-fetched to make a deal possible to happen, especially seeing as the player has agreed on personal terms and wants to join the Hammers.

With Charlie being a central defender and Diouf being able to play in most positions on the left-hand side, it means we are also exploring other options than just our primary target of a central midfielder.

Tim Steidten went from having his own chants to being released of his duties come January time, but his business over the years could now, in hindsight, be described as mediocre.

The deals completed over his time at the club were also regarded as ‘strange’ according to people inside the club, the way deals were completed as well as his prolonged absences, but looking past the way deals were done, the Hammers are seriously considering selling Mohammed Kudus to Tottenham Hotspur.

There are talks of a fee in the range of £70,000,000, which is what the Hammers would like, but Spurs are more comfortable with a figure in the £50,000,000 range. We can all see where this is going, can’t we…?

Mohammed Judus is said to be “open to Spurs”, and his agent is describing him as “eager” for the move.

With a move to Saudi Arabia off the cards, as well as other clubs dropping out of the race, Spurs seem like the only club holding a serious interest in Mo, and an official bid is expected to come in soon as the official transfer window opens today.

Thomas Frank holds high admiration for him, this isn’t a rumour that’ll just flow down the river. Business with Spurs could happen for the first time in over a decade, but they’ll have to pay up if they seriously want the Ghanaian international.