The urgency to recruit at London Stadium was clear enough before Monday night’s dreadful Brentford defeat. The failure in successive windows to recruit a new frontman leaves the Irons with no top level goalscorer, Nuno Espírito Santo preferring an academy graduate to thirty three year old Callum Wilson who’s been described as finished by former Watford star-turned-pundit Troy Deaney.
The Hammers target in the winter has been reported as Red Devils’ out of favour frontman Joshua Zirkzee, who has been getting zero game time at old Trafford and was reported as wanting to leave on loan to try and boost his own selection chances ahead of the Netherlands’ world cup campaign.
West Ham are reported to have been preparing a bid to loan Joshua Zirkzee
Irrespective of his suitability as an out an out frontman, it appears there’s a catch: Reported by I-news.co.uk:
“West Ham are preparing a January loan move for disgruntled Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee. The i Paper has been told the club’s hierarchy share Ruben Amorim’s view that nobody is allowed to leave in January, whether Zirkzee or the similarly frustrated peripheral figure Kobbie Mainoo.”
Back to the drawing board, it would seem. The 24 year old seems destined to remain at Old Trafford this winter leaving West Ham to look elsewhere for a loanee who actually wants to come to east London and stands a chance of bagging half a dozen-plus goals. A tricky combination in view of the toxic atmosphere at the club right now.
Given the years West Ham have been needing and trying to get a centre forward it’s extraordinary looking at the ones that seemed possible at the time now playing at a higher level.
Mainly Moyes preferring nobody than even a slight punt barring stupid money on the likes of Scamacca, Vlasic and Cornet.
Toney, Ekitike, Goeykeres, Isak plus others were achievable but we stuck with only Antonio – who was great on his day.
Our transfer team has been woeful in identifying and delivering quality and value. We not only signed expensive players ( or no one ) that didn’t suit our tactics or weren’t good enough they had awful sell on value.
Well that’s one bit of good news at least. Bullet dodged for a change
I wonder if we can find anyone else to get on loan and then not play. Brighton must have a few more…
As much as we need a striker we also need a decent defender in the Jan window. Perhaps we could have another try for Harry Maguire?
Maybe Brighton have a player we could loan and not use.