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Suddenly the thirty million euro price tag placed on Brian Brobbey doesn’t look so high. Compared with the newly-published price of another of West Ham’s winter transfer targets, 30 million seems a steal. As usual, the Hammers are looking for a Harrods-quality striker for Matalan money. The sudden back-pedalling over Brobbey’s deal because – apparently – Ajax will not allow a ‘loan only’ option suggests again that West Ham do not actually have cash to spend this window and are looking only at cheapie loans to get them through the rest of the season.

Evan Ferguson from Brighton will be another one to cross off the target list then. Apparently according to a report in everton.news his sale price has now been named by Ferguson’s club as £45 million. Which whilst it is a huge shift from the hundred million suggested last year is, again, an enormous amount of money for a fringe player with a bad injury record who cannot even make it into the first team.

Whether this is Brighton’s version of ‘dynamic pricing’ much the same way Uber or Ticketmaster put up prices when demand is high, who can say.  With Everton, Arsenal and the Hammers all in need of a target man you can understand the Seagulls’ approach if they don’t need to sell.

What is clear is that West Ham won’t be buying at that sort of money. Whether it makes the club more disposed towards their young Dutchman at ‘only’ thirty million remains to be seen.

The Hammers need to wake up and smell the coffee- the reality of this transfer window is that €30 million – (about £25 million) – won’t get a first team ready, top level proven goalscorer. Look at Arsenal’s rumoured interest in 21 year old Sesko, with his price tag alleged to be in the £70 million range.

Gradually the Hammers targets all seem to be falling away in a sense of transfer window dejà vu. Loads of names, several offers, nobody materialises. Sound familiar?

Whether ‘all roads lead to Silva’ is a fair assessment of where West Ham are right now, we’ll find out for sure in the last week of this January window.

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11 comments

  • Darren Porter says:

    West ham are a laughing stock, our recruitment is pathetic. Sullivan should sell up and go so we can have an owner who understands you have to invest to succeed instead of looking for cheap and past it players.

  • Ray says:

    Brighton’s pricing of Ferguson sounds like high balling a job you don’t really want or need on the grounds the offer might just be accepted. Ferguson is not worth £20M, so move on.
    When nobody knows what they are looking at (or for) or when nobody has the knowledge to make a decision while understanding the odds of being right or wrong, then they procrastinate, and that is rife with West Ham. All clubs should have someone who has already identified potential long before the transfer window starts. Then they can go about their business and see who, if any, of those targets is realistically available. If they have already done their homework, the only discussion is money. Some of these articles are a vote for dithering and indecision, something West Ham need to get past.

  • John Harper says:

    Typical Sullivan, hasn’t learnt anything from Fulkrig, going for the older cheaper option, no resale value, the club is run by clowns!

  • Kip says:

    We will.end up with ings 2 then
    ……I’m gobsmacked they are letting this brooby go over this kind of stuff….we truly are the worst club at conducting transfers…its honestly laughable……..
    It’s plainly obvious nothing will change now until we get rid of sullivan and Co…..maybe peaceful protests are coming…fans deserve there say..especially season ticket holders……can’t remember the last time I saw sullivan just out and not in the stadium….he has to know that say 70 % of fans want him gone …I never used to be one of them .. …but we have changed everything in the club apart from the owners…so again no matter who is manager or dof it always ends bad …apart from our brief success under moyes ,that is …

  • Dean says:

    Hi Martin, I have a simple question for you if that’s ok. You and others have spent the last week or so engaged in an orchestrated diatribe aimed at steidten, my question is what did you think would happen when you got your way and Steidten was removed and sulli declared himself back in full control of transfers? Have you forgotten the utter carnage and awful windows he has overseen? Have you forgotten the dreadful way he negotiates and upsets other clubs? Do you really want the clubs transfer policy to be dictated by prefered agents who have no allegiance or care for our club? Now you have got your wish and look at the complete chaos of yet another window under Sullivan. Steidten did get fullkrug wrong there’s no doubt on that, but have you forgotten zaza, hughill, benni, norviedt and all the other useless players signed under sulli?

  • Lee says:

    Is anyone surprised we don’t get the good signings…. Who would want to come to the club at the moment .. apart from the crocks and walking wounded …. Typical West Ham ……. Not even second rate now …. If it wasn’t for Ipswich.. And Southampton … we would be in the relegation fight …. FFS … we may still get there

  • Phil McDonald says:

    This is exactly why Sullivan wanted control again. All the ‘We Tried’ fake news and sweetheart deals for his favoured agent buddies. Back to last minute nonsense again. Silva media announcement is probably already being worked on. Kretinsky needs to grow a pair.

  • J says:

    Maybe you lot don’t actually have a clue what is actually going on,and now at least none of you seem to be sucking up to your ” source ” and the board for once

  • Pete says:

    I sad looking at Gp’s face as the questions around the market yielded no answers. A resigned look as if he knew when turning down the six month caretaker role in favour of a 2.5 year deal, would mean he has no cash for the Jan window. The sad thing is he accepted the situation ( no new ) as he rode into town.
    Don’t get him, accepting on those terms and I hate the club for building the false dawn ( 57 mill John Duran) bid on named strikers.
    There is a glaring issue with the club, all want to leave, not even loan players looking for game time are giving us the nod!

  • John Ayris says:

    If you make terrible decisions instead of buying quality when you can this is what happens.

    You make it that you have no option but to buy from the imperfect goods.

    A bit extra for Duran avoided all of this and Fullkrug too, it really does beggar any belief and we all need to suffer it.

  • Tom says:

    So what happened to the 57 million bid for Dhuran that this site was crowing about just last week. Now according to this site we have the old chestnut about West Ham having no money was it a phantom bid then shock horror. Stop the pretence just get some old crock that Silkman or Salthouse have on their books. It’s laughable.

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