The enigma of West Ham’s striker situation takes another turn. Niclas Fullkrug is termed as ‘not fully fit’ by Graham Potter, who admitted to having to manage the German’s minutes. Latest reports suggest the ‘other’ West Ham striker – the one who cannot get on the pitch for love nor money – is now a hot prospect for both Everton and Leeds.
Which is puzzling.
West Ham took Evan Ferguson on loan from Brighton just before the close of the winter window: Since then, Ferguson has played a little over ninety minutes in total. Relegated to a Danny Ings-like bench sitting role, Ferguson is obviously not rated by the West Ham manager who has no plans to keep Ferguson after the loan expires. In any case there is no option to purchase- the once priced at £100 million striker will be off back to the south coast after the season finishes.
However, clearly he is rated: Just not in east London. The yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk trumpets the headlines : “Leeds United eye sensational transfer swoop for striker once valued at £100m – price-tag now halved” ..[If promoted] Leeds United have been linked with a big-money summer move as reports emerge of interest in Evan Ferguson”.
In addition, the post’s report includes Moyes’ Everton’s long-standing interest: “The Toffees are long-time admirers of Ferguson and considered signing the 20-year-old in January, but he eventually joined West Ham on loan”.
The head-scratching regarding Evan Ferguson continues for anyone wearing Claret and Blue: Leeds, Everton and others clearly rate the youngster and it is almost inevitable that he will go on to great things. A twenty year old full international working his way back from an injury-ridden youth, Potter must have seen something in the young man to take him on loan.
Whatever he saw, it doesn’t seem to be worthy of 90 minutes worth of further investigation as Ferguson kicks his heels presumably just crossing off the days until he can move on.
What do Leeds and Everton know that West Ham don’t? Answers on a postcard.
Maybe he’s looking to pretend he’s not been impressed and so get him for a low fee.
that will not work. Brighton will tell us to f**k off and either Everton or Leeds will easily top whatever insulting offer Smellyvan makes
Potter has never been responsible for recruitment at any of the clubs that he has previously coached and the Ferguson debacle suggests that he’s not competent to do so . Westham need the RIGHT DOF to avoid the chaotic scatter gun approach to recruitment that has dogged Westham for an age . Sullivan is going to do it again with heavy input from Potter and the consequences of failure are relegation next season given that Westham are currently the fourth worst in a league that had 3 terrible teams . I doubt that the 3 newly promoted teams will be as bad next season .
Same with Guilherme, seems to have suitors all over the place.
Gullermhe is far superior player . As will soon be proved .
Only if Potter lets him?
Unfortunately he is just a statistic at the moment being bounced around as they don’t know what to do with him.
And this is the reason I don’t come to C&H very often now. The speculative click bait articles, filled with unsubstantiated gossip and rumour and no facts at all….this place lays the ground work for negativity and then fuels it by other articles and comments….for so long they have continued to do this and then entice the readers into adding to the negative comments….no wonder our fan base is so divided. This place and irrelevant gossip websites like it are the start of most things negative that are West Ham related….and to think they use it as a way to get paid!
Spot on . As long as Sullivan owns the club were no threat to anyone.
I really don’t understand Potter’s decision to sign Ferguson at all and he is solely responsible for this. Potter announced he was responsible for transfer decisions, not the board, and he knew the player well after giving him his debut at Brighton. He also claimed he was ready to play despite the well documented injury problems, and made him his number one transfer target. 2 and a half months later he has only given him 90 minutes on the pitch even when we were crying out for a proven target man. I’m not surprised Brighton are unhappy with his lack of game time.
Why on earth did Potter leave both specialist strikers on the bench again yesterday and not play Fullkrug from the start?