Reports that West Ham are set to make a second bid for USA striker Ricardo Pepi appear to be wide of the mark.
Fabrizio Romano reported that the Hammers had a €25m bid rejected by PSV Eindhoven last night, and the news has been picked up by all the usual mainstream media outlets.
The 22-year-old striker scored for PSV against Liverpool last night and looks to be a decent player, but it seems the Hammers’ interest is lukewarm at best. Having spoken to ExWHUEmployee this morning, neither of us has been able to confirm a serious bid for Pepi, though there may have been a tentative enquiry from the club.
Therefore, it seems highly unlikely that West Ham would return with an improved €35m transfer bid for the player, as reported in the Dutch press this morning.
Aside from anything else, this is not how the Hammers typically negotiate for players. The more this story develops, the more likely it appears to be a tactic to apply pressure on Brighton for Evan Ferguson.
However, if the club is bidding for a player and doing so quietly, who could blame them? Pepi appears to be an incredibly talented forward who is clearly going places, and I, for one, would be delighted to see him join
He suffered a knee injury last night so another potential signing bites the dust. Gutted as he would be a great signing.
Spot odd one out?
Ferguson / Pepi / De Paul / Raspadari / Boniface / Fullkrug / Silva
Clue: Whose the fittest
Whoopie, clap your hands and wave buntings we’ve signed 17 year old Scots lad for £100,000.
Another one destined for academy never mind recruitments needed for Potters requirements.
Why can’t we find players like Pepi etc at a young age, before the likes of PSV & Co.
We are a joke whilst Sully uses us as a management sim.
We are supposed to be a big boy club, but we couldn’t run a chook raffle.
Aussie Rule clubs are run more professionally
Sullivan mate ,he should back potter think he’s a good manager . We need to be decisive and go for potter targets. Sullivan show some ambition for us fans ⚒⚒
FFS can we actually make a decision and get a striker and box to box midfielder
This whole transfer window has a complete ploy to fool the fans to think that the West Ham board have a target to sign the probability is that we don’t sign anyone and Sullivan will expect that potter keeps us up and we go through the same nonsense in the summer
For God’s sake where is our ambition? This is what the BBC had to say this morning: about Ferguson
” The Republic of Ireland forward has made 12 Premier League appearances this season but 10 of those have been as a substitute.
The 20-year-old’s only goal this season was in the draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers in October.
That is his only goal since November 2023, as the form that shot him to prominence in the 2022-23 campaign and led to him being nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Year award has deserted him.”.
Can we just stop this nonsense and sign Callum Wilson and Silva because it wont be any of the other strikers mentioned