One Irons position to be filled so forget the rubbish

I was about to turn the laptop off a few seconds ago – it’s been a long and very hot day and a bit of Sherlock catch up on Netflix seemed like a good idea.

Then I made the mistake of taking a quick look at NewsNow/West Ham and saw us being linked with a full back, read of Sampdoria’s interest in Pedro Obiang AGAIN and various other rumours which frankly aren’t worthy even of the word.

So as it’s Friday night and the end of a long old week in the heat let’s just get things straight in our heads.

Between now and the transfer deadline day prepare yourselves to see the club linked with any amount of names regardless of position.

BUt its only when you see West Ham and a striker target mentioned that you need get excited because thus far the boss has bought a keeper, three defenders and three midfielders.

We don’t need anymore in any of those departures but CandH has had it confirmed as reported earlier that a back-up striker is now very much on the agenda.

I’d like to say I’m shocked when we are linked to players with whom we clearly hold no interest given we have bought in those positions but I’m not.

At this time of the summer any old story will do because there are media outlets around who adopt the attitude: “Give them what they want and expect.”

Don’t swallow it – we need a striker – that’s it.

Right off to bed and a bit of Sherlock. Night all and COME ON YOU IRONS