Summer 2017 Transfer Speculation

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  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Has anyone else noticed that this season hasnt particularly gone to plan ;hmm

    # ;wink
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;hmm now you come to mention it.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    The Times says he's refused to sign a new contract because it didn't offer him as much money as Snodgrass, honestly if they don't think he's worth more than Snoddy then I don't blame him for being unhappy.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Opening gambits.
  • brookingsironsbrookingsirons
    Not sure how true this is but West ham have never been able to keep good players ever since I was a young kid we always sell our best players don't we .

    Until we get new investment we will always have to sell on as fighting relegation
    instead of Europe is not much of an attraction to top players .
  • brookingsironsbrookingsirons
    No to Sturridge another crock we need players who want to play and train each week
    not one's who don't want to train only when they feel like it .
  • Putney_HammerPutney_Hammer
    Well if we believe the media looks like Antonio and Lanzini are off due to wages so we really will be rubbish next season
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    I don't believe any of it until its on the official site , its all agents trying to get more cash and lazy journo's reporting gossip as fact ;wahoo
  • eskimokingeskimoking
    Antonio is effective, but so have lots of other players that aren't good enough for the top teams. He's deluded if he thinks he'll start at bigger clubs.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Should be able to get a good fee for him if he did want to leave.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    So then according to the media we have Adrian, Lanzini, Antonio, Carroll, Feghouli, and Calleri all set to go.
    They will be replaced with Hart, Defoe, Terry, Sturridge, Johnson, Rooney and several European players
    Slavs also on his way out and will be replaced by Inzaghi, Jokanovic and/or several others.

    This is one transfer window I don't want to miss. ;wahoo
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    So we are going to have 57 players and three managers then ;lol
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Apparently. ;biggrin
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Pearces

    Yes, sponsored by Heinz, I believe.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Total rhubarb about Antonio and Lanzini wanting to leave. The contracts will be sorted when we are either safe from relegation or in the close season.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Simple facts, we started the season with the current strikers

    Carroll - 7 goals
    Sakho - 1 goal
    Callleri - 1 goal
    Fletcher- 0 goals
    Zaza - 0 goals

    We had 5 strikers coming into this season, only contributing 9 goals in 34 games

    9 goals which represents 20% of our total goals this season....that just isn't good enough

    Ayew, Lanzini and Antonio have showed we have players to score but they are at there best in advance midfield roles not as a striker and if we can add firepower then next season could be very exciting
  • McHammerMcHammer
    West Ham United want to sign Brazilian winger Jonathan Cafu, 25, who has a release clause of £10.2m in his contract with Bulgarian side Ludogorets Razgrad. (Daily Express)
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited May 2017
    Because with Antonio, Snodgrass, Ayew, Sakho, Feghouli and Valencia all able to play wide what we're crying out for is another winger.....
  • LukerzLukerz
    Snodgrass is more a RM/LM as opposed to a winger. Same way Beckham was never looked at as a winger.

    Valencia and Sakho are strikers. Feghouli is not good enough.

    Leaving us with Antonio and Ayew, the latter being somewhere between a winger and striker.
  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Not sure if its greedy or not but I think we need more than one new striker ;hmm
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    Baz maybe I should rephase, one guy that can actually put the ball in the net..

    By all means we can get another 6 that are either really AM's or Allergic to the net...
  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Mr Defoe on a free would be a good start. He and Sakho/Carroll up front ( yes I am fantasizing so I'll add if either are actually fit) would be a nice prospect (hold up striker + a poacher off him). Or if we're really lucky... Chelsea will let us have Batshuyai on loan (option to buy maybe too) and we can pair him and Defoe!
  • LukerzLukerz
    Sooner we write Carroll and Sakho off the better, instead of this blind faith that we'll get 30 games out of them.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Vorselaarhammer said:

    Baz maybe I should rephase, one guy that can actually put the ball in the net..

    By all means we can get another 6 that are either really AM's or Allergic to the net...

    Yes but the owners agreed deals for both bacca and bats. Neither wanted to come

    And offered a sizeable fee for Lacazette whose club did not want to sell to anyone

    Therefore the barrel had to be scraped. Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight the could have tried for benteke, but in terms of last summer's striker signing efforts I'm not keen to pin this onto our owners.

    What possibly would not have helped is that we were dumped out of Europe before the transfer window closed

  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Wasnt bats on his way to us until Chelsea came in for him? After the season he's had, or lack of one, he could do with some game time.... Alongside JD!
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    I think we need to be realistic - someone who is not brittle and is better than what we have but without chasing someone who we've little chance of getting

    Someone like a deeney or josh king - even these might not want to come and/or their clubs might not want to sell

    They may not get the pulses racing but we are at the end of the day a relegation scrapping side right now.

    For some reason I'm not keen on bats ;hmm
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    But we don't play with RM/LM, we play a single striker with two wide men so Snodgrass is either a winger, a striker or in competition with Lanzini for the "hole" player role.

    Also Valencia has been mostly playing as a winger at Everton as he's not going to get much chance to play centre forward with Lukaku there.
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    I think Defoe as an impact Sub when our Plan A isn't working is a good option.
  • alderzalderz
    I very much disagree that Feghouli isn't good enough, personally.

    But, for arguments sake, let's say for now that he isn't. If a winger with international & Champions League experience playing for one of the biggest clubs in Spain has come to us and shown that he isn't good enough, why would we think that someone from the Bulgarian league is likely to be better?

    There is every chance he would be, but the point I'm trying to make, is that if we are saying we need improvements, why take a gamble on an unknown quantity?

    Personally, I don't think it matters how many wingers we have at the club until we know what system we want to play. If Bilic is going to play the 3-4-2-1 system then you have Ayew, Antonio, Feghouli, Lanzini, Snodgrass fighting for 2 places. If he wants to play 4-2-3-1 then you probably want one extra winger (though no part of me believes that Valencia is a striker, so if he's staying he will be the extra winger IMO).
  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Josh Kings scored too many recently and he'll now cost a bundle. Spurs are interested according to recent 'gossip'. I think he's out of our reach. If Deeney was available he was commanding a very high fee not so long ago too and I doubt we'd fork out that much for him. Not sure who'd come in for Deeney though but he also knows where the back of the net is ;hmm

    I think Bats would be a presence up front. Hes strong, good in the air and I reckon he and Defoe would work well as a partnership once his confidence was built up again. I dont blame you for not being keen on him though. He's a risk after shuffling about in Chelseas reserves
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