West Ham have been turned down in a move for Seb Haller’s former strike partner at Eintracht Frankfurt on loan.
Serbian Luka Jovic grabbed 30 goals for the Bundesliga outfit last season before moving to Real Madrid in a £60 million plus move in the summer but has just a single goal to his name this term.
However, the Irons moved to reunite the pair with Jovic arriving on loan this winter but they were immediately turned down by the Spanish giants.
Between them, Jovic and Haller had scored 50 goals between them at Frankfurt last season and the Hammers were keen to bring the Serbian to the London Stadium on a loan with an option to buy in the summer.
The report first appeared at http://sportwitness.co.uk/west-ham-interested-signing-real-madrid-player-galacticos-studying-possibility/
And a Hammers insider confirmed to ClaretandHugh a few minutes ago that an attempt was made to get the player to the club.
However, Real immediately turned us down flat. Now, however, a striker is high on the club’s list of priorities in January although quality front men are particularly hard to get at any time particularly in the winter window.
Love how we try and get a striker who real brought for 60mil on loan. As if that was ever going to happen.
Would have been the longest of long shots to get him, we can probably get Huggill back 😉 and should certainly recall Cullen but this time play him, country miles ahead of Sanchez.
Cullen out for season I believe
whats happened to silva? I thought he was in the managers thoughts and was to have come back from injury a while ago – its all gone very quiet since then
He’s been very poorly stil I believe
Hugh – do you know what the latest is with Xande Silva? Has he recovered from his operations yet? He looked like a young ‘striker’ version of Antonio when he first arrived, so I do hope he’s still a prospect?
I’LL CHECK bUDDY BUT LAST TIME i DI SO HE WAS RATHER POORLY STILL
Madness. Why do the board continually embarrass themselves. Wouldn’t be surprised if we low balled the wage offer too we’re far to cheap for £170k week
You would sooner they were less ambitious? That’s a new one 🙂
I love how we want to sign another striker to play up front with Haller when we have a perfectly good player to play along side Haller already in Antonio
Back up
I would love to see us play three attackers, and three more Defensive midfielders. Perhaps our Brazilian Anderson could be converted into a short term striker running the channels ect.
I have the feeling Fornals would be a revelation if played a little deeper. I think his passing and assists would be key.