Leopards don’t change their spots: Neither, it seems, do West Ham United change their ways. Just two weeks ago, West Ham’s spokesman was telling everyone that the club ‘hoped to bring in one or two strikers’.(hammersnews). Yesterday Claret and Hugh’s source tells us that ‘Graham Potter doesn’t want to sign a striker this summer‘ and then just this morning there’s the report that most West Ham fans have been dreading: Worse than Jamie Vardy, (who actually wouldn’t be such a bad bet) worse than Dominic Calvert Lewin, Callum b****y Wilson is being lined up as a West Ham signing seemingly without Graham Potter even wanting him.
Now we know why Potter’s stance was ‘we don’t need a striker this summer‘: Loosely translated that obviously means ‘I’d rather have no striker than an old Premier League has-been with a dodgy injury record’.
Has nothing been learned from the signing of Danny Ings? 12 months ago the player – who wasn’t wanted by Moyes but signed anyway – was clinging on despite the club wanting him to leave for Southampton: Ings stayed, as was his contractural right, for another 12 months on the salary he was entitled to of over £100k a week. Unused by Moyes, Lopetegui and Potter, he became an embarrassment and an expensive ‘bench blocker’.
As Claret and Hugh wrote last night, in the upbeat article about West Ham’s two promising youngsters El Hadi Malick Diouff and Callum Marshall, nobody is fooled by ‘the club’s” stance: We suspected all along that Ings 2.0 would be foisted on Potter:
“Even if, as we all suspect, Potter does get a ‘freebie’ striker to-ahem- ‘help out’ before the end of the window”. Meant half in jest, it seems those words have come back to haunt me pretty quick.
Short-term-ism, it seems is alive and well at London Stadium in an embarrassing tug of war played out in public.
Despite Potter’s claim that this was going to be an exciting summer window, it seems for West Ham fans it is just a case of ‘nothing has changed’ and nothing learned. Instead of a young, dynamic up and coming striker from Europe or maybe from the Championship, the Hammers will have a 32 year old German with a injury history and apparently now another 32 year old with an injury history, neither of whom will be worth a bean come the end of their contracts.
Suddenly I hope Potter does get his way and Callum Wilson goes elsewhere: It’ll mean at least, that the Manager is running the football side of the club. But I’m not holding out much hope.
Potter should walk if 33 year old injury prone Will Salthouse client Callum Wilson is forced on him, it’s not like he needs the cash after his Chelsea payoff, unfortunately as fans we don’t get the option of walking with him.
Another deal that stinks @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ who in their right mind would think Callum Wilson is what we need, the few minutes he did manage last season at Newcastle showed how absolutely past it he is, when you look at Newcastle fan sites and they are all saying, a player that’s been outstanding for them, pleading for him to not be given another contract tells you all you need to know, I don’t protest about much but if he ever sets foot onto the pitch for us I’m afraid I’m just going to walk out, if it’s the first or last minute, if Wilson sets foot anywhere near this club it will be an absolute disgrace, I’m backing Potter on this one if that’s the best striker we can get then no thanks I’ll do without, as I stated I’m not generally up for protesting and didn’t see the advantage of signing the BSout campaign as it’s only being seen by the u tube community, if this signing happens sorry but that would be the last straw for me, I’ve supported this club since my first game at Upton Park back in 1963 and in that time we’ve had some pretty bad owners but nothing like the incompetent mob we have now, when will they start owing up to the damage they’ve personally done to this club with actions such has believing the fans would be remotely interested in bringing in Callum “bloody” Wilson.
DS is a joke tight fisted not for 1 minute do I believe Potter don’t want a striket . He don’t want an old striker the club is a joke getting sick of DS
If this actually happens, there’ll be no season ticket waiting list for the 26/27 season.
Why do you continue to believe and publish such rubbish, no wonder you readers continue to moan.
Wait until it’s done then criticise if you need to, not every ludicrous post you have from unreliable sources.
The most shocking thing about this is the concerted effort to throw Potter under the bus by suggesting he doesn’t want to sign a striker. Still a few weeks to go before the season starts but not looking good for cover upfront.
Would rather see Callum Marshall than Callum Wilson. Would rather see the new lad signed from Celtic than Callum Wilson.
Callum Wilson…. Look at his record last year, 29 games missed, 1 goal, and this from a player who thought it good to laugh at us when scoring via a blatant handball. Time for him and his mate Antonio to go full time on podcasts. Did the Ings disaster with £30m wasted teach Sullivan nothing, or is that another horror story our chairman will blame someone else for. We need a young striker to challenge Fulle, but if it’s Wilson just go with what we have and spend the money upgrading midfield. As the club were quick to advise with KWP nobody’s” free” so use Wilson signing bonus, wages and agents fees elsewhere.
Wilson was only fit twice a season, he always played and scored in both games against us!
Potter needs to stick to his guns here. Tell Wilson in any negotiations that he won’t be getting any game times at all if he signs for us. Then if Sullivan forces the signing, the wasted wages are purely down to him.
This club will never change while we’re stuck with these imbeciles in charge