Tottenham cool interest on West Ham’s Kudus?
Caught in the middle of West Ham’s public admission of a failed move for Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey was an entirely different casualty of the transfer window.
A Hammers spokesman inadvertently—or perhaps intentionally—revealed the club’s interest in Ramsey when confirming the midfielder was heading to Tottenham. The inference was clear: we missed out because he chose Spurs.
Personally, I wasn’t too concerned. Ramsey is a decent player, but no world-beater. Tottenham are in the Champions League next season, so aside from my usual anti Spurs bias and rivalry, it’s understandable why he’d choose them.
Far more concerning, in my opinion, is the suggestion that newly promoted Sunderland have beaten us to Habib Diarra after a month of negotiations. That one stings.
However, the most significant fallout from Spurs’ move for Ramsey could be its knock-on effect on Mohammed Kudus.
Only last week, five clubs—Newcastle, Arsenal, Spurs, Manchester United, and Chelsea—were reportedly in for the West Ham winger. As of Friday, that list had already shrunk to two, as Eddie Howe, Mikel Arteta, and Ruben Amorim all moved on to alternative targets.
Now, it seems any Spurs deal for Ramsey will end their interest in Kudus altogether—leaving just Chelsea.
Unfortunately for West Ham, the West Londoners don’t appear keen to splash serious cash on the Ghanaian. Instead, they’ve proposed all sorts of part-exchange deals featuring players Graham Potter has no interest in.
Unless something drastic happens soon, it might be time for Sullivan and Křetínský to dust off their wallets—because the longer this Kudus farce drags on, the more likely it is he’ll still be at the London Stadium next season.
I’d rather keep him than sell him to scumbags like Spurs or Chelsea. My preference has always been to sell him to Saudi Arabia – get more money, don’t have to worry about him burning us – or at least to a European contender. Not here to make other London clubs better.
Kudus staying is ok providing he accepts to move he’s got to put in a good seasons work
How about we show some intent, and Potter influences the culture enough to make him want to stay and repeat his early form with us next season. How are we supposed to reach the European spots if we sell players like him??
Sell Paqueta and Alvarez, play Kudus as a 10 behind a quality striker, with Summerville and Bowen either side and a new midfielder as an 8.
God forbid we have to keep one of best players and our Billionaire owners have to put some money into the club.
Seen it reported that Chelsea have agreed a fee for Gittens so can’t see them buying Kudus as well. The irrationally optimistic part of me thinks we’ll now either get big Saudi money for him or he’ll stay and be motivated to prove what a great player he is and the Directors will fund the rebuild from their own cash. I may have been out in the sun too long though.
Tottenham isnt even close of getting Ramsey, and Villa isnt having a PSR firesale.
Speaking on Sky Sports News’ Transfer Show on Friday night, reporter James Savundra insists Villa do not need to make any sales.
“It’s been widely reported they’re a club that need to potentially do business to comply with PSR,” Savundra said at 7.54pm.
“I’ve been told by a source at Aston Villa that’s not the case – they’re absolutely sure they will fit within the laws of PSR because last year we saw them being very creative with the deals they were able to do.”
Villa sold Duran for 53m up front in january think the rest was add ons, sold Philogene for 22m, Carlos for 8m. Then got 20m for reaching the last 16 and last 8 in CL. Monchi said most of money from Duran sale would be set aside to handle PSR, he didnt say ALL the money would be put aside. How the media still pushes the PSR narrative that Villa have to sell is beyond me. He turned down Valencias offer for Barrenechea of €8m cause there were several other European clubs interested.
Would you do that if you have to sell for PSR reasons?
Villa will probably wait to see what value the PL puts on the Chelsea womens team, then put a value on their Villa womens team, and sell a stake in it to themselves every season to handle PSR.
Villa will sell no players nor the woman team before end of month. From Tuesday Villa will start selling and buying players.
Gonzo
I agree it is unlikely Kudus will go anywhere this summer because we have over inflated his valuation given the poor season he had.
The same goes for the rest of our squad. With exception of Bowen and Wan Bissaka I doubt there is anyone else saleable at anywhere close to the amount we paid for them.
After the 30/6 when the out of contract players and loans end we will still have a squad of 25 players.
To buy anymore players with the exception of one striker which is surely our greatest need would be financial suicide.
I cannot see a strategy that will not lead to a relegation battle. Hope someone else can