The background noise this week makes it pretty clear that West Ham’s midfield makeover is in the pipeline if not actually on paper yet. Whether it be a Kudus part exchange that brings in fresh blood or cash from the Nayef Aguerd sale, the same half dozen young, pacy, mobile (hurrah) midfielders are being named again and again. We can but hope that even the West Ham board can’t cock them all up.
Without wishing to put a damper on things before a single transaction has even been inked, am I the only one looking in vain for a striker to even be ‘linked’ with the Hammers this summer? Apart from young Daniel Cummings, due on 1st July, the front line has a 32 year old. And nobody else.
The bad luck encountered by Hammers’ target Brazilian Yuri Alberto who fractured his back has certainly put West Ham in a dodgy situation as elsewhere other goals corers get snapped up. To put Alberto’s injury in context, Brazilian legend Neymar fractured a vertebrae in 2014 and he came back fine in six weeks. Stick or twist time for the Hammers who reportedly agreed personal terms with Alberto weeks ago.
But there must be a ‘plan B’to bring in other front men. West Ham simply cannot endure another Premier League campaign with Jarrod Bowen acting as a stand-in. Just a couple of weeks remain before training starts again in July, and well we remember how Graham Potter wanted to get his team together for a ‘proper preseason’. Tick tock.
Plan b lol not even a Plan A just stick a pin in a board and if Sullivan likes the player and he has certain agents then it is a must buy otherwise move on……i mean this mans one of how many strikers linked to us?.
West Ham are cheapskate Sullivan and co promised the earth when they left Upton Park and now clamming they are skint and yet they pay hardly any rent they lie to the fans all the time and when everyone has renew there season tickets they then tell them fans they made bids or try to high jack other clubs who are after certain player they play the fans for fools if they get into a relegation fight next season there will be a lot of unrest at that stadium mark my words
“We can but hope that even the West Ham board can’t cock them all up”
Without a skilled professional DoF? With a board of directors (or bored directors) thinking that they have done and will do a better job than skilled professional DoF?
If a so called professional football club is run as if were a fruit stall in Green Street Market / some sort of dodgy cheap jizz magazine with a set of glorified tarted-up but run-down buildings as the ‘training base’ then what do supporters expect to be the outcome of the clubs attempts to bring in ‘top top’ players?
We all live in hope . . .but the reality of the situation is that a complete overhaul of the club is overdue – I must admit, but thought that the first step was to bring in a skilled professional DoF, but he was sacked . . . after the board of directors decided to just listen to an agent chum peddling one of their clients and hire someone who turned out to be an out-of-their-depth spanish clown head coach . . .