Silly Sunderland did Irons such a big favour

It might well have been Connor Wickham (right) at £8 million if Sunderland had had their way.

Instead it was a desperate Diafro Sakho at £3,5 million after some well known hiccups along the way.

We won’t go into the whys and wherefores of why that on/off situation situation with Metz  developed. Sufficient to say that at last the Hammers have had a result in the striker market.

So far this season Wickham has managed one league goal in eight appearaances whilst Sakho – oh go on say it again – has managed six from six including the League Cup defeat.ig favour

My understanding is that Wickham was very much the first choice of Sam Allardyce and Teddy Sheringham but Sunderland did us an enormous by over-pricing the player by some distance.

Sometimes you get lucky and the Hammers went back for the Metz player at £3.5 million – rising after 140 appearances to £7 million. Thank you very much  Metz.

It’s all very easy in retrospect of course and after the Modibo Maiga disaster it’s easy to see why the club may have wanted to stay British but I never got the Wickham thing at all. Too many injuries, not enough goals.

We certainly deserved a break on the striker front. In fact no club deserved  one more given the record over recent seasons.

So thank you silly Sunderland for your over-pricing of an average striker, thank you Metz for kicking up a fuss, thank you Mr Sullivan for going back in for Sakho and thank you Diafra for the goals.