With 8 days left before the 2nd September deadline the transfer window looks to have a nail-biting ending for West Ham fans already coming to grips with twelve player departures since May’s relegation.
A new report this afternoon in thesun.co.uk claims Crystal Palace are out to steal West Hams skipper following his sides’ disastrous start to the season and the lack of clarity in West Ham’s boardroom.
Few supporters could blame Bowen after the promises made during the Kretinsky – Gold alliance of June have largely evaporated and player sales have seen the side transformed – and not in a good way.
Nuno’s nasty little habits of playing team members out of position and trying in vain to park the bus have won him few admirers and even fewer points. According to the sun:
“CRYSTAL PALACE are preparing to launch an audacious £50million bid to lure Jarrod Bowen back to the Premier League.
The West Ham skipper, 29, pledged to stay at the club this season despite relegation to the Championship – and signed a new contract… But that is not putting off Palace, who are preparing to sell current right winger Ismaila Sarr.
The Hammers’ financial woes are no secret – and selling their captain would go a long way towards easing that pressure.”
In these days of players downing tools and forcing through sales, whilst Bowen would never resort to such tactics, you have to wonder whether Kretinsky’s promises made to West Ham’s captain back in June have now gone west along with his shareholder majority for the time being.
And, consequently, whether Bowen may have second throughs about abandoning ship whilst the HMS West Ham United is drifting rudderless, adrift in a stormy Championship sea.
The Premier League looks mighty inviting right now.
Bowen has been incredibly loyal, but loyalty has its limits. Gold, Sullivan and Kretinsky (yes, him too), have all contributed to destroying our club. Bowen should now do what is best for him, and that is to move on. And I wish him all the best.
Speaking to my Palace mate, he laughed at this. He said they desperately need 3 players in other positions and if they had £50m to spend, it would all go on one player.
If it’s correct then let it happen, best for Bowen and a good price for us
I suspect Jarrod’s best years are now behind him. At 29, fifty million is a huge gamble. If they want rid of Sarr, dust him off and gift wrap him with a lump sum, say 25 million. At this stage I regretfully suggest it’s the deal to keep everyone happy.
We need a defender pretty rapidly to replace Disasi.
Koppen the asset stripper will be wetting himself.
Nuno will be given £10 to buy a CB and then sell Mayers Casey and Golombakis for a KitKat and a bag of crisps.
EVERYTHING that’s happening to our great club is down to the criminal and his Miss Management who sold us down the river.
West can only hope that the Soulless bowl is bulldozed to make way for a Trump golf course but only after Kretinsky or Stavelys buddies have bought it for a penny. Leaving us with just enough in the bank to build a little place of our own in a Stansted airport carpark allowing the Tourist customers a bit of entertainment while waiting for their flights.
If we lose our best players to Crystal Palace, a tinpot outfit that used to get average crowds of 14k not long ago – before their current purple patch – and has spent more time in the third-tier than the top-flight historically, we may as well fold and die as a club and be done with it.
Bowen won’t leave
One way to empty home stadium.
Supporters maybe loyal but not that loyal.
What a load of codswallop.
2 matches into the season, get real.
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If it’s in the sun (make do bog paper) then it must be gospel
The key thing is whether the player wants to leave which makes it difficult to keep him – so Diouf Taty and Magassa may leave to our detriment but I believe Bowen will stay for the season