West Ham have already signed five players already this summer, making Jean-Clair Todibo permanent, adding Daniel Cummings, El Hadji Malick Diouf, Kyle Walker Peters, and Callum Wilson, committing £54m of transfer funds with Todibo and Diouf which will be written down in accounts over multiple years.
On top of this, the club have budgeted for two more players in this transfer window, a goalkeeper and a midfielder after which their transfer business will be done unless anyone else is sold:
Speaking exclusively to Claret and Hugh this morning a club insider confirmed “We lost £100m last season, this season looks like £60-£80m loss which assumes we buy a goalkeeper and midfielder”
The strategy of the need to sell before we can buy has been known for some time.
West Ham sold Mohammed Kudus for £54.5m which will be paid over three years by Spurs but recorded as a profit of around £30m in this financial year.
The new goalkeeper is likely to be John Victor which is likely to cost £8.7m with Mads Hermansen also fancied – who could be purchased as low as £20m if Leicester were to lower their demands. The club therefore have a number of different options for the goalkeeper.
On the midfielder front free agent Josh Brownhill is the most likely candidate although the Hammers retain an interest in Jacob Ramsey if Aston Villa can be sensible with the valuation and a number of other as yet unnamed options available to them.
I have said this once before, the only way to make the owners pay for decent players is to boycot the games, let owners pay for the loss revenue. We keep buying season tickets and sullivan sits pretty in his empire.
Johns and Brownhill, oh I can’t contain my excitement at the thought of another one paced midfielder and a goalkeeper with no experience of PL football v the likes of Hermansen and say Ramsey or Elliot. We have only lost money because of the club’s poor previous recruitment. Where is the additional investment from our owners, the difference in how pur seasons goes with Harmansen and Ramsey/Elliott v Johns and Brownhill could be worth millions.
Which plans are we talking about. It seems that Sullivan and Macaulay are singing from two different hymn sheets. Potter has been negotiating with Hermansen for gk spot whilst Sullivan has been negotiating with Victor. Do we actually know who’s plans we are working on? I think we have an internal power play going on here at the club and as always this will be to the detriment of the club itself.
Let’s hope that any midfielder that Macaulay has asked for will be negotiated in good faith for by the chairman.
Shows how poorly run this club is – how can a premier league team (with all the money from TV deals), that rents its stadium for peanuts can record a loss of £100 million?
Simon Jordan said not long ago on Talksport that Potter was a weak manager and he is being proved correct over Sullivan forcing him to take a washed up striker in Wilson.
I think we will be down amongst the bottom six before long unless our front three stay fit which is unlikely.
It’s sad we can not even sell one of our players we are looking to sell to fund more transfers
It just proves they are not good enough
The depressing thing is that we are going to be stuck with them
Let’s hope Potter can perform miracles on them and get them extra fit and can then improve the team
The team spirit and play in the USA did not have me feeling it was terrible, they were playing the ball out well.
Just need a good midfielder which has pace and cross the ball well and even score a few goals
I think Bowen as captain needs to be more vocal and perhaps Fulkrig as vice captain would be good
So much to look forward to this season, Free Transfer FC,
Sp glad we left Upton Park for this massive upgrade to next level…..
Every transfer window is proves to be quite ridiculous every year but this one is unbelievably exasperating! I can’t wait for it to be over so that we can savour the real excitement of yet another relegation dogfight. It’s fun to be a Hammers fan, isn’t it?
In the last 5 seasons we’ve finished 6th 7th and 9th and won the conference league. And last season we wasn’t in any kind of relegation trouble at any stage we finished 18 points clear of the 3rd bottom side . After all we finished ahead of the totts and man united .and I’ve not heard one person say they battled relegation have you . There’s plenty to be annoyed about namely our useless owner but lying about non existent relegation battles isn’t on .
I can see a case for Brownhill.
A leader on the field, and possibly off it as well.
Works incredibly hard.
Scores goals.
Could be an inspiration to Potts, Earthy, Fearon and Orford.
Lack of pace and his age counts against him though.
I can’t, just another slow midfielder ofvwhich we already have too many.
So what about the book gain for Kudus ?. Also the significant drop in salaries ?