West Ham: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Scarles, Kante, Earthy, Lamadrid, Bowen (C), Pablo, Taty
Subs: Areola, Herrick, Ward-Prowse, Battrum, Potts, Casey, Marshall, Murphy, Orford, Golambeckis, Mayers, Ajala, Fearon
Today the club have officially announced that Jarrod Bowen will be staying at West Ham United and has signed a revised contract upon his agreement to stay.
West Ham released a video over two minutes long and confirmed that Jarrod Bowen was staying at West Ham next season despite all the inevitable rumours.
Jarrod discusses how his goals are to get West Ham back to the Premier League and also about how he likes the club. He also mentioned that he met with Daniel Kretinsky in Prague and after speaking to him was impressed by the vision for the club and was looking forward to the future.
After the meeting, he said “It didn’t take a lot for me [to stay], because this Club means a lot to me.”
Jarrod staying doesn’t obviously just bolster our hopes of returning back to the Premier League, but it’s also a huge incentive for other players to join, encouraging them to join a side that might not be at the pinnacle of English Football at the moment, but could be in just a year's time.
It’s a massive moment for fans and a massive statement by West Ham. Jarrod Bowen has kept his word that many believed he wouldn’t uphold and now it’s on the club to deliver on the promises behind the scenes.
Wowza boys what great news this is,he did have a poor season last year but hearing this has made my day let us hope it encourages others to stay and no i am not naming him but i think you all can guess lol.
Amongst all the inevitable departures, seemingly the next departure on the list is Wan-Bissaka, who has made it known to the West Ham hierarchy that he doesn’t want to be in the Championship and would like to move away ahead of the upcoming campaign.
West Ham have set a price tag of £25m on the Congolese international - yes, you are reading that correctly, but that is what happens when a club won’t give in and actually sticks to their guns, nice for a change!
Two clubs have made their interest known to West Ham at the moment, those two being Arsenal and Everton. David Moyes attempted to sign the former Manchester United man previously but failed; however, whilst he now may have the opportunity, he is said not to be too keen on him and is currently opting for other targets.
Arsenal, on the other hand, are interested in Wan-Bissaka and believe he could be a good backup to Ben White. Despite winning the league, a right back was a position Arsenal needed to strengthen the team, so it’s a true possibility, but at the moment it’s been nothing more than loose talk with nothing concrete on the table.
Whether it’s a move to Arsenal, Everton or neither, Spider-Wan wants to web his way out of West Ham.
Fortunately, Nuno appeared not to be the most keen on Aaron Wan-Bissaka towards the back end of the season, opting for Walker-Peters instead, who has also indicated to the hierarchy he would be happy to stay at West Ham in the Championship next season.
Presuming Wan-Bissaka would be sold, West Ham United would look to sign another right-back.
Whilst many fans amongst the Hammers fanbase have been furious at the lack of movement in players since being relegated, a delight has appeared around the corner regarding current players that are expected to stay.
The big lingering question that has loomed above West Ham's heads for weeks is ‘will Jarod Bowen play at West Ham in the Championship?’ - Well, an answer is here. Jarrod Bowen is set to announce himself, making a statement that will confirm he will be staying at West Ham. Whilst it has taken some time, he’s concluded that this is the best decision for him and that the club are willing to provide him with what he wants.
But what does he want? That is unknown. What we do know is that Jarrod Bowen won’t be receiving a 50% wage reduction as all others are and it’s thought that he has been promised by the club that reinforcements will be made and signed to ensure West Ham get back to the Premier League.
Jarrod Bowen confirming his eventual stay is on the top of the iceberg, beneath it, it is said that both Konstantinos Mavropanos and Taty Castellanos will remain at West Ham. Both players are comfortable with remaining in Claret & Blue colours and will look to stay at the club.
However, it is worth noting that whilst Jarrod Bowen will be staying regardless, should a behemoth of an offer come in for any other player, they could possibly move away due to the need for money to help finances and reinvest of course.
There’s a lot of ‘ifs’ but this confirmation is hopefully a key to unlocking many more possibilities in the near future.
Time moves on even if statues don’t move… unfortunately, the Hammers are statues. As time passes, it’s becoming further and further apparent that West Ham’s inevitable ‘top targets' are slipping through their fingers for cheap fees.
It was reported a while back that the Hammers had scouted two lists in the event of relegation. One would be targets staying up, the other about relegation. Seeing as the latter occurred, that presumed list was in preparation for no money coming into the club from an owner, aka David Sullivan, as well as anticipating us struggling to make player sales.
However, seeing as Daniel Kretinsky has taken over, he personally injected what is thought to be £90m and the £85m from Mateus Fernandes meant that the supposed “£200 million that needed to be raised” suddenly became just a mere £25m which would be easily achievable given the ‘assets’ the club have at their disposal.
The idea of deliberately avoiding certain free agent signings suggests that money is available to spend, and Kretinsky is confident that we can do that, as he confirmed via interviews.
The ultimatum here is did West Ham underestimate the ‘power’ that they hold? Ideas of nobodies on a cheap fee have now changed to still potentially spending ‘Premier League-like fees’ despite being in a different league.
Letting players such as Martin Adeline go, who was supposedly our ‘top Fernandes replacement’ is now off to Hamburg SV for a mere €6m fee, something simply has to be in the water! Targets of better calibre… well, hopefully.
The same can be said for Manchester City’s Sverre Nypan whom the Hammers were said to be interested in taking on loan, has instead joined Lommel SK.
Slow or planned? Something is going on behind the scenes undoubtedly but reinforcements have to be made otherwise, there’ll be a whole lot of losing, off the pitch and on it! Tick tock West Ham!
Delighted to hear that 45K season ticket holders have renewed. Thats bloody amazing and just confirms what we already knew that WHU is a MASSIVE club.
I think 45K is larger than the capacity of any other club in the Chumps?
So, somethings never change including the incompetence of West Ham ticketing. I gave up my season ticket in 2024 but duly paid the £10 and went back on the waiting list.
I heard this week that new season tickets are being bought and the clowns in charge have given first dibs to folk that only just joined the waiting list!
I called the club and they confirmed the cock up and were inundated with calls from angry fans.. you couldn't make it up!
I thought this level of incompetence was the reserve of the money grabbers Brady & Sullivan!
Hammers target, Hammers remain interested, Hammers rumoured to bid and the Hammers intrigued… all of the above have run riot into the world of media, ranging from England to Portugal where other international clubs are reporting ‘done deals’ to try and force a move away when the reality is completely and utterly different.
Reports are all ifs, buts and maybes, and everything is minimal. Exits are unknown, incomings are pending but who is another question.
Nuno Espírito Santo has made it known that he would like to sign Disasi. According to Chelsea sources specifically, Nuno has encouraged West Ham and wants the club to do anything possible to convince the Frenchman to join, it is rumoured that a £25m offer has been tabled and it hasn’t yet been denied, more will hopefully come in the following week.
West Ham’s interest in Axel Disasi is genuine and it is one of the reasons as to why the Hammers opted against signing Dael Fry on a free from Middlesbrough, who has since signed for Birmingham City.
If the Hammers were to miss out on Disasi, it would be a significant blow but given the club’s desire to forfeit the chance to sign Fry, it would be a huge shock if the deal for Disasi didn’t go through, but more shocking things have happened, that’s for sure.
West Ham have recently acquired an interest in a Portuguese midfielder called Gustavo Sá.
The midfielder, who currently plays for FC Famalicão is said to be Mateus Fernandes’ replacement, whom we sold for an £85m fee a week ago. It has been alluded to that a deal has been spoken about around the £20m mark, but nothing is set in stone and the truth is, Koppen’s targets need to be discussed first, which makes sense given his role in the club.
One of the significant talking points to the deal that is Sã is indeed a Jorge Mendes client - someone who’s known to do business with Nuno on a regular basis.
However, whilst Portuguese outlets are claiming that it is a “done deal” the fact of the matter is that a lot more needs to be concluded, and yet again, the gun hasn’t just been jumped, it’s leapt.
Interesting to hear that the young Portuguese midfielder has already signed a 5-year deal, I’d love to be a fly on the wall!
However, it would be interesting to see if the Hammers operate a clear-out service before taking on board new signings, or perhaps the other way around - at this moment in time, it appears to be sign and then sell, but if offers come in, they will be accepted.
On another note, pre-season training now begins and it’s just 31 days until we’re underway
As the Hammers set to ramp up their transfer business for the upcoming weeks, the club have turned to a former target, in hopes of bolstering their midfield for the upcoming campaign.
The target in question here is Nottingham Forest’s midfielder James McAtee. The Forest man moved to Nottingham last season in the hope of receiving starting game time as well as having European experience. However, his time at Forest has been dull and over time he has fallen out of favour and now an exit is on the cards.
West Ham were formally interested in him, but Nottingham Forest ultimately paid the fee Manchester City were asking for and we missed out. However, Nottingham Forest are now willing to either sell the player or allow him to go out on loan.
West Ham could venture for this move and offer either a loan with an option to buy, or an obligation if we were to be promoted.
Nottingham Forest bought the Manchester City academy project in a deal worth up to £30m, but only £22m was paid as the add-ons weren’t fulfilled.
The only complication to this deal is that Manchester City do in-fact have a buy-back clause which they could potentially trigger, in the event a move elsewhere happens.
The other issue is whether Nuno decides to play him as a 10 or not. West Ham are known under Nuno’s tenure to not play with a direct attacking midfielder and tend to opt for a double pivot. Whilst Nuno could possibly have McAtee as an option, the Englishman won’t want to be second fiddle once again.
Nuno and the newest backroom addition, Nils Koppen, will further discuss targets and who to march on with for the Championship campaign
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