Irrespective of whether West Ham snare Dortmund’s Niclas Füllkrug or Aston Villa’s Jhon Duran, it’s clear we’re serious about buying a striker.
Therefore, even if we Hammers fans are not entirely sure about the identity of the next three transfers, it’s safe to say that West Ham are in advanced negotiations to sign a right-back, winger, and striker.
However, we’re not finished there. The Irons remain in the hunt for at least two more players in the form of a central defender and a central midfielder. That was confirmed to C&H by a top club source who reiterated that West Ham are involved in negotiations for multiple players in all the positions mentioned.
It truly appears to be an unprecedented spree by the club, who are seemingly using every penny from the sale of Declan Rice and ploughing it back into the squad. Added to some creative accounting and a record turnover in the last published accounts, the Hammers clearly have a decent war chest to rebuild this season.
Clearly, there will need to be some more outgoings, but as things stand, the transfer activity shows no sign of relenting.
Another week has past and again, despite multiple stories of success, the reality is that WHU have done absolutely zero business and now they only have 4 weeks to cobble a team together. On Wednesday, Summerville was going to have a medical, and fly out to join the team in Florida, then that all changed to Thursday, then came “Wait a minute” from Germany, then “signing Friday by 4 p.m.” another deadline been and gone. I just cannot wait to see what stories come out next week, perhaps a double West Ham swoop for Messi and Mbappe? As always, I remain hopeful but concerned.
Dont forget we should get some transfer money back for Aguerd and any other players swinging the lead.
Yep, still need 1 maybe two centre backs to replace Aguerd and or Zouma. Wouldnt be surprised if one of those is a loan
We just can’t get them over the line all 3 won’t make it
We either meet the offer price and the offer a poor contract – or vice versa we offer a player a good contract but then low ball on the bids for the players. If rumours are true we seem to be doing that a lot, telling a player we can give them X amount when we haven’t offered anywhere near their value
We got ourselves into a situation where we couldn’t but replace a number of players all at once. That was inadvisable as clubs have been reticent to haggle as is usually the case where they know that we will be spending.
We had an ageing small squad plus a rapid decline of Zouma. This was always going to be a busy window regardless of other circumstances.
It’s a case of needs must during this window. With the squad so depleted a big spend was inevitable. If we do sign a central midfielder, with a view to him slotting into the starting 11, and assuming we get the Summerville deal over the line, where would Paqueta fit into the puzzle?
Brazil where else it’s clear that we will offload him as soon as possible because of the Ban
If he gets banned . The clubs reaction to it suggests a huge element of doubt . On what evidence the prosecution have .
Kind of reminds me of when Pellegrini took over and all of a sudden we were splashing a lot more cash in the transfer market than we usually did. Let’s hope there’s not the same outcome.