Claims that West Ham have made an official bid to sign Fiorentina defender Nikola Milenkovic may be a little premature.
A report by Calciomercato that the Hammers have tabled a bid worth €20m (£17.2m) for Milenkovic.
David Moyes reportedly tried to sign Milenkovic in September 2020 as they launched a £20m bid for the 6 foot 5 defender. They failed to land the Serbian international then, but they have now renewed their interest in him.
Milenkovic started 34 Serie A games for La Viola in 2020/21, and chipped in with some useful contributions in the opposition penalty area as he netted three goals and provided an assist.
Italian website JuveLive counterclaimed the Hammers were poised to make a bid of €30m (£26m)
According to Sky Sports Italia and Football Italia, West Ham bid £15.5m for Milenkovic while another reports a bid as low as £13.5m.
In reality, most reports claiming formal bids are often premature and the reported bids are nothing more than inquiries on what it would take for a club to part with their player.
Speculation isn’t the same as Fact and too many supporters are sucked into this transfer rumour frenzy and start believing in unicorns.
None of us has the inside track on the incoming transfers and with that in mind, we have to take it all with a tablespoon of salt.
When the player holds up his shirt on the OS we will then know the deal is done.
Agree, Until then mostly 2and2 making 5 methinks.
I don’t believe anything I read until the player is standing next to Moyes holding his shirt up. There are just too many people interested in talking things up; selling clubs, agents, ‘representatives’ (whatever they are), websites desperate not to miss out on a story, so regurgitating the same old fictional cr4p, the list goes on.
Don’t panic. Not everyone has done their business yet and lots of deals depend on each other. In Moyes we trust.
If we move with our usual speed low bids and drag our feet.same result. Best go to the rest. What had moyes ddoing at euros got to do with it.he doesnt do the negotiations though he may want to see them and vice versa. Not very optimistic. Seems to be normal slow pace.
Moyes won’t be talking to players at the Euros. Agents, maybe, but players still in the tournament will be quarantined from transfer talk.
All this chatter about ‘£10m” this and ““£20m that” is jus5 trash talk. For example, who the hell is going to pay £49m for Tammy Abraham? It’s all just sh1te.
Again I am bringing my realism to all this, a fantastic player but lets be honest every good player we are linked with will end up not signing for us and we will end up with players like Abraham and Barkley, players that clubs don’t want. We just cannot seem to go in for a player and get it done without a big fuss about fee and salary. The only hope I have is that we buy players like Coufal and Soucek who come under the radar a little but certainly not players who are not wanted by their clubs. If we can find 4-5 players this summer to come into the first team squad like those two that is the very best we can hope for and the icing on the cake bring back Arnie, he was sublime last night for Austria, yes he looked a little leggy but what an attitude on the pitch, gave everything. A preseason with Moyes and he will be fully fit.
There’s a flaw in your logic that suggests that Coufal and Soucek weren’t good players at the point they arrived at the Club. I’m happy to leave views about which players will and won’t join us, and which ones are “good” and which are “bad”, to somebody who has experience of recruiting players into EPL clubs. Somebody like David Moyes.