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To continue with our recent festive stance, villains in Pantomimes are an absolute necessity so we thought we should take up that mantle by being the one's to say how FEW, if ANY, new players are going to arrive during the 'January Sales'. From reading fan sites and the press in general, it would be easy to assume there are new recruits ready and willing to spring to the club's aid as it struggles to hold on to the coat tails of the Champions League contenders.

Easy target for keyboard warriors? Well it is Panto season, so everyone loves a wicked witch don't they? Hammers current fall guy, and their have been plenty in the past including Aaron Cresswell AND Manu Lanzini, is Issa Diop. Having been given virtually no Premier League game time until a spate on injuries made David Moyes HAVE to select a player he clearly doesn't reckon, Diop has become the target for fans who are disappointed by the club's awful run of form, never mind the fact that the squad is woefully short of players and without a main striker in Michail Antonio's absence.

Having to send a team out devoid of its entire first choice in defence was hard enough, but to then be deprived of your main striker with only a few hours notice made it almost mission impossible for David Moyes West Ham away to Tottingham in the Carabao Cup semi final.