Hammers rubbish £20m striker speculation

Blue Moon – the leading City website had one of their ITK’s claim: “City have offered West Ham Bony for £20m take it or leave it….give or take some last minute bluffing.”

But in fact the ‘report’ is miles from the truth and as ClaretandHugh declared last week, any deal for the player will only be until the next transfer window when he  will move on to China.

Our source said: “The situation is crystal clear. We need a player to cover injuries to our front men and we have inquired about Bony on loan until January.

“We couldn’t do anything else if we wanted to because our understanding is that a deal is in place for the player to move on to China.

We will be pursuing the deal with City this week and hope we can come to an agreement but these things aren’t easy.”