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Report: Moyes to make £40m striker his top priority

West Ham  are very much in the picture to sign Sevilla hitman Youssef En-Nesyri this summer according to a new report
The La Liga outfit are bracing themselves for a serious bid from West Ham for the Moroccan striker.
Estadio Deportivo claims that the Hammers will look to solve their striker by signing the Sevilla forward as their top priority.It is claimed that Sevilla are already preparing for the 23-year-old’s exit by lining up a move to sign AZ Alkmaar striker Myron Boadu.

The Morocco international has scored 17 goals in 33 games thus far and Sevilla are demanding around £40 million for their star player.

The 23-year-old was the subject of an offer from West Ham club last month – although the bid was rejected.

Moyes later admitted interest and a bid to reporters adding no deal had been concluded.

En-Nesyri progressed through the youth ranks at Malaga before leaving for Leganes in the summer of 2018.

 

About Sean Whetstone

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9 comments on “Report: Moyes to make £40m striker his top priority

  1. This imho would be a mistake, obviously I don’t know what the transfer budget will be but I can’t see it being much higher than £40m before outgoings. If this is the case, it would be foolish to spend it all on one player.

    GSB need to dig deep to build on this season as trying to do things on the cheap would put us back into the bottom half scrap. I can’t honestly see the board giving Moyes the alleged unspent January money on top of a summer budget, Covid & loss of income will swallow that.

    We wasted £45m on Haller after he was scoring for fun at Frankfurt but couldn’t replicate that form in the PL. The Bundesliga is weaker than the PL as is La Liga after the top 3 or so clubs.

    We need a striker that’s a given & this guy would no doubt do a job, but we also need to strengthen elsewhere in the squad. Our squad is paper thin & the players (again imho) we need to let go are Anderson & Yarmolenko but that would only bring in £20m..ish.
    Would we have to sacrifice Rice to finance bringing in the 3 or 4 needed???

    • Seriously? Not worth 40m… He doesn’t even want to play for WHU. Sevilla doesn’t deserve the cash and En-Nesryi doesn’t deserve the shirt!

      Lucky it’s just a lame duck report from sport media…

      • If he is the ‘best player in Europe’ he will probably command a higher figure. Personally I don’t want us blowing all or most of the budget on any single player.

        I agree that we shouldn’t be trying to sign players who have said previously don’t want to play for us. We have been there before & wasted far too long in the window in doing so.

  2. I think they will sacrifice Rice or Souchek.I have no problem with that if they reinvest all of it in players-plus the money they didnt spend this window.- alllegedly

  3. As this guy has just been called’ The best player in Europe right now’, with all due respect to us, i’m sure he’ll have loftier suitors come the summer time. Even if we did have £40m to spend on one player, i don’t imagine he’d choose us over one of Europe’s leading clubs. Toney and Armstrong are more our league, financially, and would likely make more sense, although would i like to see En-Nesyri at the London Stadium? Damn straight i would!

  4. Agree with Saul. We are poor cousins to the other suitors.
    Need to build slowly, within our means, and reach Europe when we have depth.
    I would not sell either Rice or Soucek.
    If WBA are relegated (likely) we could conceivably pick up Johnston and Okay Yokuslu at a reasonable price. They are both EPL quality, as they demonstrated yesterday against ManU.

  5. Seems to me that we just need to buy a striker for £100million and that will solve everything. Doesn’t matter who we sign – just as long as he’s expensive. Then the current owners need to step aside allowing the real money owners to take over. Then we replace the whole management team with people who know what they’re doing. They will of course acquire all of the best players in the world, three in each position. WQe will then win all of our games for the next twenty years.
    Should happen. Ought to happen. Free entry to their selected seats for ‘true’ fans. All expenses paid, home and away fixtures, for Supporter Groups officials.
    Heaven. You might think. Still be wrong for so many.

    £40 million for who? That don’t impress me much. The way things might go, I think I’ll take up knitting. Would be more exciting wondering if I can make all the right stitches and not drop any.

    Come On You Irons

  6. Why are we buying another striker, we have Antonio for at least 10 games!!

  7. I think we need to grab Ivan Toney from Brentford and buy Lingard.Manu are still gonna rotate him in and out,but now He’s gotten a taste of continuous first team football,He’s not gonna want to sit on tbe bench no more.I’m sure that has been crossing his mindSnd as for Toney,I mean come one.He is a goal machine.I think He is gonna be 20 mill.He is what we need.

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