West Ham are still waiting on manager Slaven Bilic to give the go-ahead for Scott Hogan’s move across London from Brentford.
And in the meantime the club has explained that any hopes of bringing former striker Jermain Defoe to the London Stadium are “well and truly dead.”
Bilic – having seen the summer transfer programme go so wrong – is clearly being very careful before committing himself on any player.
However, it looks odds on that Hogan will be brought in given how advanced talks have become but Bilic is refusing to give the go ahead until every option has been exhausted.
That may suggest he isn’t quite as “sold” on the player as some might hope or that he simply wants to wait in the hope that a Premier League proven striker becomes available.
But that won’t be Defoe with ClaretandHugh being told today the deal “is now 100 per cent dead.”
We will avoid relegation battle this year so..do we really need panic buy..instead keep the money and make some really logic and big signing in the summer..we got Ayew and Koujate back in no time,Martinez deserve a chance i think..so eventually cover for RB is urgent right now..
Although most of us want to see some new blood and in the championship he is a very good striker it is always a gamble bringing these players in and the gambles haven’t gone so well for us where strikers are concerned so maybe that is what is holding Bilic back if indeed that is what is happening and its not just journalists making hay in this very quiet transfer window.
Theres plenty of hay being made whu32 because very few deals are being done you are right.
Come Monday though & the last week lunacy will being Lol