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Gold aims to secure Song and key striker targets

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Chairman David Gold has confirmed that the club is still trying to bring Alex Song to east London.

ClaretandHugh reported over a week ago the club were likely to move in on the midfielder before the end of the transfer window, and Gold has revealed today: “”These things are ongoing. ”

Gold said the club expects to sign two more players before the transfer window closes – with Song and a striker the main priorities.

“We’ve lost Valencia for the beginning of the season,” added Gold. “We were already believing that we required another striker in the squad and we’ll be doing everything in our power to bring in the best players that we can.

“I would have thought [we will sign] at least two new players, not necessarily before we kick off but before the window closes.

“We’re not panicking, we’re not going to do poor deals, we’re going to do sensible deals and I think by the time we kick off we should be in good shape.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • Si Hammer says:

    Spot on MyOld.Most the time stats bought up in an arguement are useless,you can just use whatever part you want to try to justify your side of the arguement.But what you say is a great point when you take the mins to goals ratio instead of just pointing out Hernandez only scored 9 goals all last season.But now you will have sent the all seeing,all knowing wise owl Canchaz into a tailspin,lol

  • MyOldMan says:

    Ive been trying not to pull out the stats during the whole Hernandez vs Austin debate but everyone seems to get blind sided by the goals to games figures. If that was all that was in play then it would be Austin all day but whereas most of Austins games are him playing the full 90mins, Hernandez on the other hand is generally only ever a sub so his actual playing minutes are a fraction of Austin’s.

    (gonna pull some numbers from last season, sorry)
    Austin scored 18 in 35 games and played 3070mins of football
    Hernandez scored 7 in 23 games but only played 860mins of football.

    So Austin scores on average every ~170mins whereas Hernandez nets one roughly every ~122mins (he has similar figures during his prem seasons). A massive difference and the reason he is always described as prolific (only Messi and Ronaldo had a better mins to goal ratio in spain last year iirc).

    Ofc there are other factors that you could go into but the long and short of it is that if Hernandez could carry that sort of form into 90mins week in week out he would be on course for 25 odd goals a season (not likely but you get the point).

  • canchaz says:

    Really this whole scenario is being played out exactly as has been obvious almost from the day Slav. Took over .
    He is building this team on the basis of a strong, attacking style midfield with plenty of strength in depth.
    The thinking regarding strikers has only changed with Valencia’s injury but still not enough to make the club jump into anything.
    On the Hernandez thing, I read that he scored 9 goals last season. Is this guy really a prolific scorer?.
    I would guess that more goals could come from more than one of the midfielders we have.

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