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West Ham United have finally got the player that the club have been missing for years, a real out and out striker, a genuine leader of the line, and a player whose bones aren't made of paper mache! For years various managers have been 'hamstrung' by the fact that the club did not have a 'proper' fit striker, ironically Sebastian Haller is exactly what Andy Carroll was supposed to be.

Watford: Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, Dawson, Holebas, Hughes, Capoue, Doucoure, Cleverley, Deulofeu, Gray. Subs: Gomes, Janmaat, Kabasele, Chalobah, Quina, Sarr, Welbeck.
West Ham: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Masuaki, Rice, Noble, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Anderson, Haller. Subs: Jimenez, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Sanchez, Ajeti, Fornals, Antonio.

For too long West Ham United has been seen as a last hurrah destination for players who might have been good once but have reached the end of the line, a sort of retirement half way home. Now, possibly as an unforeseen positive byproduct of the club's current FFP restrictions, it appears that Manuel Pellegrini is beginning to dip in to the vast amount of young talent at his disposal.