With nobody around within the club wanting to talk about anything very much on this blow torch weekend it may be a good idea to put one or two transfer window issues into some sort of perspective!
Doing this job you hear all sorts of stuff from any number of places and last week I was being told as categorically as it gets that Palace will have signed Eberechi Eze by now.
That came from a very senior and influential nationaljournalist and though I have great respect for him, experience tells us all that nothing can be as cut and dried as that at such an early stage of the window.
It seemed impossible that such a prize QPR asset – they have had very few since Stan Bowles – would be on his way to the first club who made an offer.
Life just isn’t like that particularly in the current market place and I have little doubt – could be wrong obviously – that this one will go down to the wire.
First and foremost a club has to make the right bid – Palace haven’t and news come today they won’t change their position- and then the player has to ensure he has satisfactory personal terms. That doesn’t happen in a few days.
What we do know is that he is very much on the Moyes wanted list and despite the meagre funds around after completing the Soucek transfer I reckon the Eze deal remains very much on – we have a habit of digging up the dough when required.
Initial rumours that we could be in for John Stones were initially denied to us by one Hammers source.
David Moyes – as we reported – explained later that central defenders tend to get better as they gain experience which caused a few – including us to rethink.
Nothing is in tablet of stones at this stage although those who are waiting out there for us to be wrong took little time in screaming it from the rooftops. Silly people – football changes day by day at this stage of the summer.
Whoever comes in should it be him or Phil Jones perhaps will probably be a loan signing with an option to buy although if we sell one or two who knows?
I’m not sure we will be strengthening at left back with a former Soucek team-mate coming in on the right but with him, a new central defender and Eze we should be pretty well placed.
In general terms, things change from day to day and we will continue to do our best in keeping you up to date!
Classic West Ham transfer window then. Don’t improve the weakest position in the 11 at LB. Wait for teams to buy players that we and many others don’t want. Cant wait to hear the next article on how the club is going all out to support David Moyes! Good to see nothing changes.
You appear to have missed the point of the entire article – that nothing is certain.
We do still need a forward who can both score himself and bring out the best of Haller. It could be Antonio, but he will always lose a few games to his hamstrings, so we either put faith in Xande Silva at last or we buy. Other teams will soon work out the Antonio-lone-striker ploy and I think we still have to see Haller hit full stride with a partner. His hold up stats are without parallel, so alongside someone decent we could be in for a treat that Pelle never delivered.
We got Hugil don’t forget😁
Am fairly certain at least one LB is incoming maybe the lad from QPR Manning, Cash or Rico Henry, at RB would be happy if the Czech comes in but also want to see Ben Johnson given a run, looks like technically the best right back we have now Zaba has left, if only Ngakia wasn’t such a childish fool we would have been fine in that position.