West Ham’s ‘serious’ transfer activity is set to start over the next few days as Manuel Pellegrini and Mario Husillos return to London.
The pair have been in constant touch whilst in Chile and Spain over the last week to ten days and will be moving in on chosen targets with Husillos now in total charge of negotiations.
The activity will start whilst co chairman David Sullivan is away on a summer break having left the two men to carry out business without his and David Gold’s involvement.
Husillos – understood to be on a £1 million plus a year contract – now has full authority to carry out all negotiations as Sullivan and Gold take their promised back seat.
His first move is likely to an increased bid for Swansea’s Polish international goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and a new offer for central defender Alfie Mawson.
Pellegrini has insisted in negotiations whilst considering taking the job and since that he and Husillos will have final say and total negotiating responsibility and that will start over the next few days.
We understand the two men have also been addressing the matter of a Manu Lanzini replacement and looking at reorganising their budget arrangements to accommodate that.
I guess if he’s good enough, he’d be any manager’s choice…?
I’d read somewhere that Husillos wasn’t being offered the job…?!? Presumably that’s just spurious trouble-making by someone without all the fact?
We will have to wait and see won’t we Geo. If it doesn’t happen we will be wrong and you will have proved a rather immaterial point.
Spurious trouble making indeed like much else we see on a regularly ill informed basisfrom the Sun and elsewhere
The one great monumentous contribution that Pellegrini will leave to West Ham ( hopefully ), is that he will be the one man who will have caused the board to release such funds, that we can go forward ( hate to use those words ‘ to another level ‘ ) as a club. It will only be the start, but will be a watershed moment.
Of course if it doesn’t happen, then he would have failed.
All these domestic signings make them sound like DS punts, Mawson is ok, Tarkowski is better, Pope is also better than Fabianksi as is Heaton.
No they make em sound like media punts
I think with Fabianski it is about saving cash for the outfield players. I would agree with that. It is also a question of if we will sign 1 or 2 keepers.