Summer 2017 Transfer Speculation

Adam

I think Lacazette will want to wait 6 months for Atletico's transfer ban to finish. A deal was supposedly in place before the ban was upheld.

brookingsirons

I think nothing much will happen until the top 6 clubs get there business done
problem for us is everyone else will be after the same players its going to be very
difficult to get the right quality players in imo and that has always been the case
we should be looking at good strikers not necessary the big names .

PrestonHammer

The problem with some people is they seem to have got Twitter confused with VentMySpleen.com.

Lukerz

Bournemouth signing Nathan Ake for £20m.

MrsGrey

£20m ;nonono

OldCastleSwift

If Lacazette doesn't go to Arsenal, one assumes that means Giroud won't be going anywhere.

I wonder what Wilfried Bony is up to this summer ;hmm

Fortuneseeker

Lacazette wants to join Atletico in January to team up with Griezmann but so does Costa, someone is going to miss out unless they both join. In the meantime we could have Costa on loan until January so he can stay match fit. ;wink

Lukerz

West Ham are ready to sell Robert Snodgrass and will also listen to offers for Sofiane Feghouli, according to the Daily Mirror.

Lukerz

David Gold has just been on talkSPORT and said we were looking for 'two PL proven strikers' and that we 'must find the money required to bring them in and pay the required wages'.

OldCastleSwift

Find the money? ;hmm We got £122m in prize and TV money. And in theory we have £7m left of the Payet money. And the increased revenue from the 55,000 seater stadium we moved to.

I'd like to think we would already have the money rather than having to find it ;hmm

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Sky reporting Defoe are close to joining bournemouth for a reported...... £65k a week.....pretty much what are we paying Snodgrass

I'm sure that there are hefty signing on fees etc but that deal is so good for Bournemouth and what we are crying out for

And yea I dont understand how we are struggling to get the money together for this summer...... surely our base kitty is around £40 odd million at the least

Lukerz

Not to mention the £20m we saved on not making Zaza's move permanent.

We must have a starting kitty of £50m carried over from last season! Certainly a budgeted £50m, if not a lump sum all available to spend at once.

;hmm

Lukerz

OCS - yeah bit worrying. They asked him about signings and the fees being paid now for what are on the face of it 'average' players, yet they are going for £25m. How do you find good players for realistic prices?

Gold said 'it wasn't about finding those players, it was about finding the money required to purchase those players'. He then said 'we must find the money'.

Based on his interview and tone, I wouldn't hold out much hope for this summer.

He did say Sullivan is working morning, noon and night to recruit the right players. He said we have good defenders, good midfielders and good wingers, but we need two strikers proven in this league to be knocking on the door of Europe, because both Carroll and Sakho are 'injury prone'.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

I really don't think money works as simply as you guys are suggesting.

A club's funds are typically in a state of enormous flux and essential liquid. It's impossible and worthless to try and add up what the club should or might have in some of kind multi-million pound piggy bank, because that isn't the reality.

OldCastleSwift

Lukerz ;ok

I don’t know whether there is a programme of expectation management by the club this summer, but with how that interview sounds and with what Noble has said recently about how difficult it is to bring in players, I do wonder if this is a deliberate tactic ;hmm

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Yea I know it's a little more complicated then there actually being a kitty of money but it's a process that every single club goes through to get money and is typically based upon owners net worth and clubs revenue

We may not have sheik money but G&S joint net worth is around mid table and te turnover the club makes (as per 15/16 data) have the 7th highest in the league and that's not counting the season tickets and tickets of this season

We haven't spend any money so far and actually made a bit from Nordveit going so I don't understand why we are struggling to get money together

Pearces_Left_Foot

He does not actually say we have n't got the money , he says finding the money which you could take as part of the transfer budget free up wages etc. If someone asks me down the pub I would find the money for a beer as it would be in my wallet for example.

alderz

I think the way he phrased it is about dampening expectation. They were criticised last year for coming out and saying we were going to try for a £30m striker, and that forced prices up. Now they come out and say we need to find the money, maybe selling clubs don't have that expectation. I don't actually think it's a factor, but if people criticised last year, then surely they should be pleased with this approach?

OldCastleSwift

We're football fans.

We're never pleased.

MrsGrey

It's also not as easy as saying (which BB seems to be, if I've read your post right billy?) that the owners are rich enough to stump up the cash.

FFP.


(And yes, I know we are richer than last year with the Stadium move and new TV money, but FFP still restricts spending. And everybody got the TV money, so we are all better off to that extent: it hasn't improved our relative buying power - crucial factor when there's limited supply and the buyers are competing with each other to 'win the auction'.)

MrsGrey

alderz said:

... but if people criticised last year, then surely they should be pleased with this approach?

Don't be bringing logical reasoning to the madness that is the transfer window ;wahoo

MrsGrey

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

turnover the club makes (as per 15/16 data) have the 7th highest in the league

But that's turnover, though. Means nothing without the other figures.

McHammer

•West Ham United’s interest in Olivier Giroud is real and the London club are a ‘credible solution’ to the Frenchman’s future this summer. (L’Equipe)

McHammer

proven premiership striker you say

Sky Sports
Former England international and Premier League winner Carlton Cole is now playing in Indonesia. Our man Adam Bate caught up with him to discuss that adventure, Cole's commitment to helping young players at home and abroad and his future...

Regarding his future, Cole currently has a contract with Indonesia side Persib but the situation is negotiable. So is he up for one last crack at English football?

"I know there are teams over in England that need help as well," Cole told Sky Sports. "I have been approached already but I am asking myself whether I really want to do it yet or if I want to enjoy myself over there in Indonesia. So I am balancing the pros and the cons.

"Do I want to go into a side that's maybe challenging to go to the Championship? Am I going to play every game? I know I would be an asset because you can stick me on and you know what you are going to get from me. I also bring other things in terms of mentoring the kids as well."
;yercoat ;yercoat

McHammer

Defoe to Bournemouth confirmed. He has penned some kind words to Sunderland fans so has learnt how to behave better than previously.

Vorselaarhammer

He sure has Sunderland have been relegated for at 3 months already.....

Vorselaarhammer

So Both our strikers are injury prone and our summer business was rubbish.... he certainly has a grip on the facts....

http://www.90min.com/posts/5203940-west-ham-s-david-gold-says-the-club-are-after-two-experienced-strikers-this-summer?a_aid=41965

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Bournemouth close to completing a move for Nathan Ake as well for £20mil

So that's Defoe, Begovic and Ake brought in......arguably 3 players who would be first teamers for us (deffo the first 2)

Well done for Bournemouth they've made some smart business for a club of their size

IronHerb

Defoe is on a 3 year deal at £65k a week, plus a reported multi million pound signing on fee. He may have 1 more season left in him.
Bergovic maybe, but there again he's happy to sit on the bench and take the money.
Ake is a decent young prospect.

So for us, imo, not really.

Yeoldhammer

FFP shouldn't be a problem we shifted probably 200k in wages from arbeloa nordveidt calleri zaza tore. Maybe even more.