West Ham boss Nuno Espírito Santo is said to be keen as mustard to get to January and reinforce his Hammers side.
It’s already become clear to West Ham’s new Portuguese head coach that his current squad lacks physicality and pace—two areas he’ll be desperate to address once the transfer window opens.
At the moment, we’re all playing a guessing game when it comes to transfer targets, with the club keeping their cards very close to their chest. However, late last night The Independent dropped the news that West Ham will make a move for Joshua Zirkzee in January.
Zirkzee on the Radar
The newspaper claims that Manchester United are reluctant to part with the Dutch striker, but a loan move could suit all parties—especially if Zirkzee continues to be overlooked by manager Rúben Amorim.
His goalscoring record since moving to England is, frankly, a bit of a shocker. But in fairness, he’s probably still better than what we currently have.
At 6ft 4 and with decent pace, he could offer West Ham exactly the sort of physical presence we so desperately lack up front.
Callum Marshall has looked isolated when deployed as a lone striker, Callum Wilson doesn’t seem to be fancied, and Niclas Füllkrug has never been fully fit. The need for a striker is now beyond urgent.
Expect Zirkzee—and of course Ivan Toney—to be continually linked with a move to East London over the next couple of months.
Personally, I’d prefer Toney, but with the situation as desperate as it is, the Manchester United forward might be the most realistic option
Spot on Kenny, it’s all too little too late, I have been supporting this team for over 60 years and to be honest this is a club that deserves relegation, it has been poorly run for a long time now ( this won’t stop until all the money has gone), Sometimes you have to reach rock bottom before things improve, this club has a long way to fall yet, it has no infrastructure nothing it can build on, no club is too good to go down, I actually think this club would struggle in the championship. I know the days of having owners who love their clubs has gone, but it would be enlightening to have someone who didn’t just see it as a personal cash cow, not sure about ” the West Ham way” but just looked at a re run of 1985/86 season coming back from one nil down to a full on man utd team to win two one , what a game , all players giving their all, those were the days , real entertainment…..🙏🏻
The evidence doesnt look good…After Monday its over according to everyone and their mother…However the Everton game was half decent….The Arsenal game and the international break didnt help…Nor did Nunos bizarre team selection ….
So its time for everyone to stay calm and work through the problems….Forget the bloody stadium for a while…It cant do anything other than hold 62000 passionate supporters…I have been through relegation seasons..And nearly relegation seasons….The support has been at its best when the chips are down!…Looking forward to a much improved showing on Friday…Then a blast of a game against the geordies…COYI
You’re wishing for the moon here.
If there’s money to be spent, forget it. Sullivan won’t realise the problems that he’s created and the amount of money he will lose until we’re in the second division and he can’t sell our football club. Sorry, I always still think that the Championship sounds a bit pompous.
The people who have decided which players to be bought in the last few seasons should be shot. The waste of money on some of those players is astounding and I’m so angry but nothing changes and until we are really in the clinker, nothing will.
Of what I have seen of Zirkzee I feel he just is a border line premier player
Just not good enough,we need to try and get a player who can score a lot of goals, not easy I know
But I feel we again are after a player who is struggling
A striker alone won’t solve anything cos he’ll never be near enough the opposition goal to do anything ! We lack pace, creativity and physicality all over the park.
We are more than shocking and I think it’s all too late to save us.
Sullivan’s years of overseeing second rate managers and awful recruitment has finally
caught up with us – we’ve had it !
Zirkzee 24 yrs at £40m + . 6ft 4″ not covered himself in glory in Prem. Poor output.
Durosnmi 22 yrs at £10m or poss less. 6ft 3″. 8 goals in last 9 matches. A real handful for Plzeň.
Decisions, decisions. I know where I’d be looking. We haven’t done too bad with the last African player from the Czech Republic.
Toney is just the sort of player to bring harmony and self-sacrifice to the squad, not.
It’s beyond ironic that Toney was turned down by Moyes for less than £5m from Peterborough before he went to Brentford. So typically Moyes. It’s true all managers miss opportunities but he was one of the worst and especially with his old line of preferring a small squad.
Then he would blow a fortune on Scamacca who obviously was never a one up front physical player and various other disasters.
Now ironically he’s trying to get Toney at Everton and you would think has more chance than us.
No it was Sullivan who turned down Toney according to Barry Fry who was Ivan Toneys chairman at the time and a friend of Dullivan and Gold.