The rumours linking West Ham with a move for AS Roma striker Tammy Abraham just won’t go away and, if anything, have intensified over the past 48 hours.
I must admit that this comes as something of a surprise. As I detailed in yesterday’s post, I’d be absolutely gobsmacked if the Hammers were interested in the injury-prone striker, particularly at the quoted price.
However, that has not stopped sources like Gazzetta dello Sport, TEAMtalk, Football Fancast, Nicolo Schira, and plenty more from reporting that West Ham are close to a deal for £19.4m. More details follow too, with many of the reports claiming that personal terms are agreed with the player and that a deal is ‘immanent’.
Claret & Hugh approached the club directly regarding Abraham last week and were informed by a top source that the transfer speculation was nonsense.
Therefore, it’s interesting to read reports that the Irons are ‘locked in talks’ and close to agreeing a deal for the former Chelsea man.
The club’s transfer priority remains PSG’s Carlos Soler, but West Ham must raise funds with some outbound transfers first. As a result, it’s difficult to imagine Tim Steidten and Julen Lopetegui sanctioning a deal for a player the club can ill afford and arguably don’t need.
Obviously players have to leave first but I wouldn’t be surprised if deals are ongoing for players to leave that in mind even a injury doubt Abraham would be more effective than the current version of Antonio.
Steiden isn’t daft there will be something in place in regards his injury record but a fit and monitored training regime for Abraham I think will be a good move and definitely something totally different than what we have had for a number of seasons
I agree. If they could raise half the Abraham fee through selling Antonio I think this could happen. Much younger, at least some resale value and in reality no more injury prone than Antonio these days. The deal does represent some risk but financially it makes some sense.
Well I think no commentators have cottoned on to the fact that if JWP, Antonio and Danny Ings are possibly off this week then we need more home growns for a full squad
its roma
they always talk nonsense about west ham
good traction to drum up interest in a sales
next they’ll report west tammy rejects west ham to sign for ____ for 14m
If true my thoughts are of the Andy Carroll days. Abrahams in good nick is a very good striker but looking at our situation with Zouma should be a caution.
Length of contracts these days seem to be getting longer to assist the affordability aspect but a trap waiting to happen with injury prone players.
If this is going ahead I can only imagine a player or two leaving is in an advanced stage without the media knowing.
We allegedly have a Technical Director who is “best in class” for sniffing out talent to match any given profile. We have players we need to get rid of before new replacements can be signed, we have more overpaid, under achieving, injured players than we can deal with, we have a tight budget, and yet the best we can come up with for a position that is not the highest priority, is Tammy Abrahams? We surely do not need to settle for “some resale value” or “less injury prone than Antonio” as our hiring criteria.