West Ham are this morning reported to have been told they will have to stump up £30 million for Fulham’s Tom Cairney after making an initial bid of £15 million
According to veteran journalist Scottish Alan Nixon in The Sun the south west London club are determined to see off our attempts to grab to grab the midfielder.
Nixon points out that the Championship club have previous in resisting offers from Premier League outfits citing their resistance to Spurs when they showed big interest in in Ryan Sessegnon earlier in a previous window.
Cairney signed a contract extension just last summer until 2021 which also gives them a strong hand.
However, with so many injuries in other up front it may be that Moyes’ priorities in the last few days of the market will have changed anyway.
And with Fulham now in the play off zone on 48 points it seems unlikely they will consider bids for any of their squad and that Moyes will have to wait until the summer should he remain in charge at West Ham.
That’s what he looks like he is worth, minimum £25m in today’s market.
Not to Sullivan 32 !! More like 8 million offered before he changed the goalposts for 2 jumpers ! 😎
I have to say we are a total mess – who ever is responsible for transfers in the club has to go. To consider paying 15m let alone 30m for a championship player, without whom his club won 3-1 yesterday. Sorry we are joke even putting in such a bid. As for Pelle, another Carroll esque player. We knew at the start of the transfer centre we needed a centre half, centre mid and an attacking midfielder. ok we may have got the inter lad on loan but surely we needed to have these players in by now. Henry is ultimately accountable he has to go imo. We keep making the same mistakes, we go for top players who wont join us. His strategy is wrong, we need to recruit young players with potential. I would do a better job than Mr Henry and most people on this site would. We have to replace our head of recruitment in the summer unless things are not sorted.
John, we desperately need a striker. We don’t have one. Looking at Hernandez yesterday his attitude was pathetic. He’s just going through the motions. Toni Martinez not good enough and has no pace. Sakho is probably the best we have but does not want to be at the club. Why hasn’t he be sold to get someone else in. Who else do we have?
Well put.Agree 100%.There is a fundamental problem with our transfer policy.Have had weeks to strengthen and plan and make contingency plans for injuries (albeit not on the scale our players get injured).Remember Kante at Chelsea well we could have had him for a song but dithered and lost out to Leicester.Its not just the player its the resale value and they made a killing on him.Diabate who scored 2 yesterday is another who went under the radar and we missed out on.Fear the same will happen with Dendoncker who i can see being a great player for years to come and will realise a huge fee in years to come.Same with Carvalho,there is a pattern here.They made some awful signings and loans the other Summer instead of investing in quality they went for quantity and its anyones guess what the mindset is right now but its definately not working.If this great club is to succeed it needs serious investment and soon.If they cannot do that then sell the club to someone with real ambition because whatever money they are lining their pockets with is a drop in the ocean in comparison with relegation.