West Ham yesterday completed the signing of Jean-Clair Todibo on a permanent deal from Nice for an eye-watering €39m.
The on-loan French central defender had only officially been a Hammer for one day before transfer speculation began about his imminent exit.
And now, one of the players being linked with a move to the London Stadium to potentially replace him is Liverpool utility defender Joe Gomez. West Ham are reportedly in the race for the 28-year-old, alongside Newcastle, Bournemouth, Aston Villa and — yes, you’ve guessed it — Leeds United.
Gomez is believed to be surplus to requirements at Anfield under new manager Arne Slot, and Liverpool are said to be seeking around £25m for the defender.
However, a top transfer source told Claret & Hugh this morning:
“I can’t see West Ham spending on another centre-back until one is sold.”
With Nayef Aguerd, Dinos Mavropanos and even Todibo all reportedly available for sale, it could be any one — or indeed all of them — who make way for others to arrive.
Perhaps we’ll have to dust off Hughie’s old “Rumour Barometer” for a lot of this stuff, but I really can’t see West Ham paying £25m for Gomez.
Aguerd looks top class whenever he’s playing for a team that’s NOT West Ham. Whats going on there?
Great price that for Todibo. £33000 over five years. That’s only £6600 a year for a top European defender. Not bad at all.
This teams been stuck in a rut since moyes left clear everyone out except GB lets get a young team together and play for the badge
Gomez! Oh no please no!!!!
Much like the football played , there’ll be no creativity in Potter’s transfer picks .
All these player’s up for sale and no one moved on so far.. !! Can’t see any of these rumours coming to anything anytime soon !!! We will be playing the usual lo ball offer game’s from sully and losing them to clubs that pay up the asking price !! Same old West ham … massive !!
Tbh i cannot see us selling Todibo. He’s young and very talented. Unless a silly offer comes in we should keep him.
I think you’re right there. Potter seems to really like him, often singles ‘JC’ out for praise.
We are very quickly becoming a club that talks a lot about bringing in new players that are on top of their game but that’s as far as it goes it’s the same old story with Sullivan in charge he needs to get out of our club along with Brady they don’t have the clubs best interest at heart they are only interested in the money they can make out of the club yes I know we spent big last year and we all know how that turned out a total disaster how can any manager at West Ham take the club to the so called next level with Sullivan pulling the strings it’s a absolute farce we need new owners ones with ambition not let’s see how much money we can make out of the club and the fans as it is now
Gomez another crock when will we ever learn in his prime years but slot is replacing him ask yourself why he’s nearly always on the treatment table its a no in my opinion
£25m for Gomez? Certainly hope not. Makes errors by the score.
Don’t forget Augerd is up for sale too.
I guess the whole squad is up for sale except for Bowen and AWB.