Hammers active on two strikers

Batshuayi

It’s now pretty well a given the official site’s ‘Insider’ is a very well placed source within the club itself.

So when – as today – he/she says various “rumours” are “understood” to be correct, it’s fair to believe them.

The Insider column has been at the centre of some pretty fierce criticisim over recent weeks for not bringing any information that hasn’t already been reported.

So it’s a change that the latest column confirms a couple of important striker names as clearly and definitely being in the frame.

He/she says that “substantial bids for Batshuayi and Zaza are correct.” However, it’s difficult to make head or tail of the next line which says “there are no imminent moves in the pipeline.”

A substantial bid represents a pretty large move in itself and you can now take it as read that  two top strikers are being actively hunted.

It looks pretty well nailed on to that Besiktas’ Canadian midfielder Atiba Hutchinson is a likely arrival with the column saying he has been told club are waiting to see if a deal can materialise in the near future.