Talksport presenter Jim White has revealed that West Ham agreed on a loan deal with Chelsea for Fikayo Tomori which meant the Hammers would pay £50,000 for every game he wasn’t played.
Claret and Hugh understand that with minutes of the transfer deadline to go, David Moyes, spoke directly to Fikayo Tomori over the phone.
According to one source close to yesterday’s deal, Moyes was not able to give the defender assurances over playing time despite the finances on offer by West Ham.
The source believed that it possible that Tomori was not a manager pick and the downbeat late talks failed to convince the player to join the Hammers.
Tomori is reported to earn £75,000 per week at Chelsea and is one of five centre backs in competition for two places this season.
West Ham will now look to the Championship for centre back targets with ten days before the domestic window close on 16 October.
Good for Moyes, nice to hear he’s sticking to his guns and not guaranteeing anyone a starting place – especially players maybe not chosen by him!
Thanks Sean – David Moyes seemed to have disappeared so it is good to hear that he was somehow involved – of course no one can be guaranteed playing time – it has to be earned
Any idea when Moyes will be back in i.e. has he now fully recovered?
Good im glad he didn’t come to us if it wasn’t moyes choice . Who on earth earth does business like that £50,000 if he doesn’t play …..
Oh yeah sorry forget who our owners are for a minute .
No more below PL standard players like Dawson or injury prone has been like Welbeck, please
This sounds like it’s got Sullivan’s fingerprints al over it. Sounds like it was a good outcome for all parties involved that the player turned us down.
It’s completely obvious that any professional sports team with anything resembling aspirations for sporting success shouldn’t be scratching around deals like the one proposed for Tomori with minutes to go before a transfer deadline.
But, of course, the view of many West Ham fans, including me, is that the GSB regime isn’t, and never has been, about sporting success.
Good for Moyes. If he didn’t rate him as being able to add value then right decision not to bring him to the club. No one can be guaranteed playing time, a players attitude, application, effort and commitment are the only things that can do that. Good to see that Moyes won’t let Sullivan “bully” him in to accepting one of his picks!!
How can you run a football club when anyone other than the man in charge of the team chooses the players ? Oh forgot it’s that club in Stratford. Silly me.
Excellent decision why should we pay good money for Chelsea’s 5th choice centre back!
So we have had a long transfer window and it’s come to this, while I agree with the comments on here I think one thing that that stands out is the failure of our board once again in the transfer window, now they will say we wanted players from the championship anyway but if that was the case why have they waited until now other clubs have bought from the championship during this period. All this window has shown is how useless Sullivan is and how much he likes to interfere in getting players in, not backing Moyes who at the end of the day is the boards choice of manager is disgusting.
It’s pretty obvious then that the boy Tobormory thought he was coming in as back up, not convinced he was going to get a game. Let’s be honest any player watching West Ham’s last two games is going to be thinking jeez this teams on fire, I ain’t going to get a game unless one of them gets injured.
Absolutely right by Moyes, any player that wants assurances on playing time is imho an entitled idiot, they need to back their ability not expect a free ride which some of these clowns want, there is a reason Tomore isn’t in the first team of a hopeless defence, sounds like his attitude and that we have dodged a bullet.
So Sullivan has delegated the blame – Chelsea for ridiculous loan fees and non appearance fines,the player for not fancying it and Moyes for not really wanting him!
The fact is that you ripped a player ,Moyes 100% wanted to keep on favour of his own” £70m player” for what? Not only has that little stunt massively backfired, but said player has been loaned out as well, after he was still not selected.
I’m clinging to the faint hope that he is preparing the way for the sale of the club – because a small and aging squad cannot be sustained or replaced with owners that have neither the funds or the infrastructure to do anything more than lurch from one catastrophe and embarrassment to the next.