The West Ham £200m waiting game

We all know that West Ham want two good strikers this summer transfer window, the problem is that most of the Premier League club want proven strikers also.

Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Southampton, West Brom, Palace, Liverpool and Everton are just some of the clubs on the lookout for a new striker and most are prepared to break their club’s transfer record awash with money from the new £5.5 billion TV deal.

The Hammers are playing a waiting game with Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City in the hope that can land their own prime striker targets to have a domino effect to release our summer targets. The situation is somewhat like a housing chain when buying a house. Only one part of the chain needs to fail to stall the whole process.

In the case of Chelsea, they are hoping to land Lukaku for around £80m to allow them to consider loaning out Michy Batshuayi, Arsenal

Arsenal are said to want Alexandre Lacazette and have been quoted a fee of €55 million (£48.7 million) plus €12 million (£10.6 million) in add-ons to sign the former West Ham target. If the mega £59.3m transfer comes off they would be able to release Oliver Giroud.

Similarly, Manchester City are said to be considering a bid for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who would cost them a cool 70 million Euros from Borussia Dortmund which is around £61.5m. In turn, they would release Kelechi Iheanacho.

These three transfers worth almost £200m between them would start the ball rolling for West Ham transfer business to take place. Quite simply no self-respecting football club will release a decent striker until they have guaranteed a replacement.

Quite simply no self-respecting football club will release a decent striker until they have guaranteed a replacement.  We have to be patient as we are not at the top of the food chain!