Each goal that Jhon Duran nets for Aston Villa must cause acute embarrassment to West Ham United’s Technical Director Tim Steidten who, apparently, had the brief opportunity to acquire Duran early in the summer at an affordable price. Duran ‘slipped through West Ham’s fingers’ and the rest is history.
The Irons instead bought 31 year old Niclas Fullkrug, German super sub from the Bundesliga with a reputation for scoring crucial goals from the bench but, it must be said, a historic bad ACL injury and over a year out of the game plus another 12 weeks with a calf problem. In fairness, these were both a long time ago, between 2018-21.
After a total of sixty three Premier League minutes, Fullkrug was injured whilst on International duty with the German national side and hasn’t been seen since. Rumours both in print and today across a couple of videos I had on in the background suggested that Fullkrug’s injury was worse than the club had admitted to and he would need surgery. Might not be back until next year.
How embarrassing would that be for West Ham, to be still reliant on Antonio’s hamstrings then, even by Christmas, after signing Fullkrug for €27 million plus add-ons on a four year deal. We decided to speak with our high ranking source at the club concerning this rumour that Nic Fullkrug needed an operation, expecting to be rubbished.
The answer came back: “I’ve heard nothing about our players needing operations, but anything is possible: Last I heard … expected to be on or near bench for Spurs”.
Completely threw me for a second. Had expected just to be told ”A load of rubbish – he’s fine’. But we weren’t. I’m sure everyone at and near the top at West Ham knows exactly the state of one of their biggest assets who’s been unavailable for weeks: I bet they’ve spent ages in preparing the formal request for compensation from FIFA for Fullkrug’s salary which kicks in (excuse the pun) after 28 days absence.
So, “curiouser and curiouser”: Fullkrug himself posts Instagram pics saying ‘Can’t wait to be back>soon ‘ but – the rumour that his injury is worse and might even need surgery will persist until we see him going full-gas, in club photos or the club ‘in-training’ video preparation for Spurs.
Fullkrug’s insta post stating ‘can’t wait to be back > soon’
I hope I’m wrong, nothing would be better than to see Fullkrug marching out against The Spurs. Keep an eye on the club ‘training hard for Tottenham’ videos and galleries and see if you can spot Fullkrug. In the meantime, let’s see what more we can find out.
Good enough for the German national team and Champions League finalists but not good enough for West Ham, you arrogant so and so’s, he got injured give him a chance
The moment I heard Westham were interested in Fulkrug I thought no surely not and the same was true of Ings . How is it that at least half of Westham fans knew that these would be bad signings and yet Sullivan didn’t .
Come on we all know that this is another terrible striker buy – it’s West Ham we are talking about, it’s compulsory – Folk of my vintage have been brought up on Billy Jennings, David Connolly, Bobby Gould, Zaza, Calleri, Rebrov, Victor Obinia, Freddie Piquionne, John Carew etc, I could go on and on and on and on – hopefully you can see where I’m coming from.
Plus if our strikers are any good they are invariably made of glass – Andy Carroll, Paul Kitson, Sakho – even when we had prime Antonio he was all hamstrings
Very True, when you read out those names, we have had a few and also a lot not named as well.
It’s sad we can never get this right.
That may be, but it lends some emphasis to the suggestion that our latest striker signing is, at present, a disaster; & that the whole situation is bordering on a farce – yet again ! I think that it is entirely relevant to refer to what ,apparently, might have been (Duran) when commenting on the Fullkrug story. Let’s all hope that things aren’t as bad as are being suggested.
This website’s perverse obsession with Jhon Duran is both shameless and embarrassing
WHAT A JOKE SIGNED DANNY INGS THIRTY ODD YEARS OF AGE AND HAS NOT GOT ANY LEGS AND CANT GIVE HIM AWAY THEN GO AND SIGN ANOTHER THIRTY YEAR OLD WHOS INJURY PROWN AND THEN GIVE HIM A FOUR YEAR CONTRACT WHY DONT THEY MAKE WHO EVER PUSHED THE SIGNING THROUGH MAKE THEM PAY HIS TRANSFER FEE AND WAGES WHO EVER IS RUNNING THIS CLUB DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING
what you said is obviously really important to you because it’s all in caps. i wonder if others think the same way. i’m not sure cos i didn’t read it
Your opinion counts for nothing when you shout like that idiot
And still you have to mention Duran!