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The impending arrival of Javier Hernandez because West Ham are willing to trigger the £13m escape clause for the 29 year old Mexico international goal machine, will swiftly follow the one year loan deal for Manchester City and England goalkeeper Joe Hart and the club agreeing to pay Stoke £24 million for attacking winger Marko Arnautovic. Hernandez joined Bayer Leverkusen from Manchester United in 2015 and has since scored 28 goals in 45 League games. He also became Mexico’s all time leading scorer after collecting his 47th goal from 95 internationals in a match against Croatia in May.
Slaven Bilic has been anxious to add pace and strike power to his squad, something Hernandez and Austria international Arnautovic can most definitely provide. The price for Arnautovic is a record for West Ham United to pay, some might think he is over priced, but compared to Snodgrass at £10 Million he looks like a bargain, such is the extent of the crazy transfer market! Hernandez's wages of around £140,000 per week could also be described as excessive, but those costs are somewhat offset due to the relatively low purchase price.
Joe Hart has joined up with the rest of the West Ham squad in Austria on Tuesday night, the club seeming to be the only route that he has back in to the Premier League. His arrival will mean "goodbyeski" for one or both of West Ham’s goalkeeping pair, Spaniard Adrian or Republic of Ireland international Darren Randolph. The former who particularly was gnarled by co-owner David Sullivan's comment that Joe Hart was the best goal keeper he had ever worked with, the latter knowing the writing is on the wall in the run up to the World Cup. The exact details of the Hart deal are vague, but you can betway your house that there IS an option to retain him on a permanent basis should things work out well.
Hart himself has said he is delighted to be back in England, “It’s important for me to play football and to get the opportunity to come here and play is absolutely awesome, to be playing in the Premier League for a big club like West Ham, I’m really looking forward to the season.” Unfortunately he then blotted his copy book by saying he had always loved West Ham and it's supporters, blah blah footballer's blah!
Anyway, the board seem to have responded in the best possible way to the criticism they faced following last year's transfer debacle buy putting there money where their mouths are, in addition there are tantalising further top quality players who may really actually arrive at the London Stadium. However some of the drift wood will have to be let go with Scottish International Robert Snodgrass top of the list, Pablo Zabaleta, not known for a forgiving demeanor when it comes to player's effort or lack of it, was noticeably aggrieved at 'Snoddy's' contribution during the friendly against Sturm Graz II. Snodgrass was a panic that just didn't work out, the club should just cut it's losses and get rid, but who would want to pay his wages? - Ed