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West Ham United have practically stolen striker Lucas Perez from Arsenal for a bargain basement £4 Million rising to £5 Million with add ons. Things went very poorly for Perez following his £17 Million move from Deportivo de La Coruna to the Emirates, so bad were things for the player at Arsenal that he was farmed out for all of last season back at Deportivo on loan!

29 year old Perez has signed a three year contract and joins Ryan Fredericks, Lukasz Fabianski, Issa Diop, Jack Wilshere, Aindriy Yarmolenko, Fabian Balbuena and Felipe Anderson in moving to the London Stadium during this summer's transfer window. He told the offiicial site whufc.com “I’m very happy to be here at such an historic Club,” he said. “I’m very excited, as West Ham are giving me the chance to stay in the Premier League and I’m very happy to be part of this new project. West Ham have great fans and play in an amazing stadium, so to sign here brings me great joy. I’m very motivated.”

Director of Football Mario Husillos said of his new acquisition “We welcome Lucas to West Ham United,” he said. “He is a very experienced player that Manuel and I both know well from Spain. He has great technical quality, and can play as both the main striker or the second striker in a deeper role. He scores goals, but can also create them and link well with the midfielders. His style is different from the other strikers we have available to us, and that gives the manager more options for our attacking play. Lucas also has experience of the Premier League with Arsenal, and is familiar with life here in London, which of course means that he will take less time to adapt and be ready. From the very first meeting I had with Lucas, he made it very clear that he wanted to come to West Ham United and, for us, this is very important. We wish him every success during his time here.”

Perez looks as though he may be the final arrival at the London Stadium, but as we write this article there are still over four hours left, after the window closes the only business will be outgoings to European or overseas clubs. - Ed

Realistically Jordan Hugill was never going to fit the Pellegrini player template, it is not his fault that Hammers stumped up an eye watering £10 Million in January for him as a 'failsafe' in case of the club being relegated to the Championship, that wasn't eventually the case and Hugill consequently spent less than an hour playing in the Barclays Premier League.

Surplus to requirements Hugill has been given the chance to play for his home town club Middlesbrough in the Championship who have signed the striker on a season long loan deal, the 26 year old only managed three substitute appearances for West Ham since moving to London Stadium from Preston North End where he had previously scored 30 goals in 114 appearances during three and a half years, he began his career in non league before joining Port Vale in 2013 ahead of his move to Deepdale.

The move benefits all parties, Boro get a player who they can afford to pay for and Hammers get to offset his wages, more importantly Hugill will actually do what he is supposed to do and that is play football, irrespective of the level! The more he plays the more West Ham can hope to claw back from their initial outlay next season.

In a way it is a timely reminder of how close the club came from staring in to the abyss that is the Championship, good luck to Jordan, he did no wrong he just wasn't allowed to do anything! - Ed

You have to hand it to those chaps and chapesses at Sky, they spend inordinate amounts of time 'bigging up' certain clubs and then do their very best to destroy them!

A classic example being Sky and the rest of the media's reporting of 'money bags' West Ham's recent recruitment, one minute potential world beaters and now relegation cannon fodder, here are Sky's 'algorythmic' findings that are based on a system called Elo*

*originally set up to rate chess players. It takes into account form, who the team still has left to play, and how well a team has done in previous seasons.

A rather bemused and recalcitrant Mario Husillos left Spanish journalists extremely confused when asked about West Ham United's continued transfer activity and the club's apparent relentless desire to empty their pockets ahead of the August the 9th 17.00pm deadline. He replied, when asked about dealing with the deadline finishing three weeks ahead in the UK as opposed to that in Europe, "Manicomio y Tonterias" which essentially translates to "It's a madhouse and a crazy thing". It is pretty much inevitable given the club's recent outstanding recruitment of players that almost every player with a pulse is being linked with a move to London E20, there are so many 'potential' signings that we thought we would leave them to the Daily **** ***** to cover, however the latest story regarding Arsenal striker Lucas Perez has some legs on it.

Unai Emery has apparently run the rule over Perez and is ready to let the experienced forward depart for a bargain basement £5 million, Sporting CP are also in for Perez, but according to various sources the player would much prefer to remain in the Premier League ahead of the upcoming season.

West Ham are still believed to be keen on adding another striker before the window closes, or slams shut! as the red tops love to print, on Thursday, and it seems the 'Huse' has turned his attention towards Perez. His £17 Million move from Deportivo in the summer of 2017 turned out to be a complete disaster, Perez failed for various reasons to make an impression at Arsenal and the Spaniard would welcome a move a couple of miles across the City to the London Stadium in the coming days rather than joining a european mainland club.

All the massive optimism surrounding West Ham may well come down with a bump after Sunday's Premier League match against Liverpool at Anfield, a match that previous generations of Hammers supporters wrote off as a matter of course, Slaven Billic for all his faults managed to do the unthinkable in his halcyon season, the last at the much beloved Boleyn Ground, and get his team to beat them on their own patch. The Liverpool team that will line up against Manuel Pellegrini's West Ham is full of World Class players and even a hard fought draw or a narrow loss will be seen as an acceptable result, but there will be a lot of Hammers fans who want to dare to dream, and why not?

The squad El Pel has assembled could go on to do great things, but equally like in 'Bubbles' they could fade and die, but for some blind faith reason there are a lot of fans and their kids who are happy to wear their shirts in public again. - Ed