Summer 2017 Transfer Speculation

MrsGrey

brookingsirons said:

Top supporters deserve top owners

And the relevance to West Ham is? ;puzzled

baracks_a_hammer

OldCastleSwift said:

He used a popular anachronism for 'fiddlesticks' and a sad face emoticon

In response to what?

OldCastleSwift

Shortly after Twitter reported Bilic pulled the plug on Iheanacho.

Who the BBC are now saying is close to joining Leicester.

baracks_a_hammer

Oh dear

Another PR classic from those involved at the club. ;doh

MrsGrey

So he (Jack) could be referring to

C&H?

The BBC?

His dad allowing the manager to have the final say on transfers?

OldCastleSwift

All it's served to do is rile up the online fan community.

And me, to be honest. He must have realised what would have happened. Utterly unnecessary.

baracks_a_hammer

Mrs G,

or, and I know this sounds really far out and crazy, he could have elected to just tweet nothing at all??..

OldCastleSwift

MrsGrey said:

So he (Jack) could be referring to

C&H?

The BBC?

His dad allowing the manager to have the final say on transfers?

Absolutely. But he's done that loathsome fishing thing and left it there. No explanation offered. Just dangles some obviously bad news on social media and leave the fans second guessing.

Completely irresponsible, IMO.

baracks_a_hammer

No disrespect to herb but his transfer thread is now 80 pages long and all we have to show for it is a 33 year old freebie.

Would it be possible to shut this one down and get Baz to open a new one in the hope reversing the fortunes and bringing some good karma?

MrsGrey

OCS ;ok I've never been happy with Jack tweeting.

I get that he's a fan - so if he is just tweeting as a fan, fair enough I suppose. He's allowed.

But If he's tweeting on the basis of his privileged position, and inside info as the owner's son, he should shut up.

You can't have it both ways.

Edit: I refer you to brookings' earlier post re twonks. ;wink

PrestonHammer

Are you saying that Herb is some sort of Jonah? ;lol

baracks_a_hammer

No im rather saying that Baz is a proven miracle worker and we could do with a sprinkle of his magic dust

MrsGrey

OldCastleSwift said:

But he's done that loathsome fishing thing and left it there.

Clickbait/attention-seeking. Needs a ;fishslap

Lukerz

Sky Sports
BREAKING: Leicester City are now favourites to sign Kelechi Iheanacho after West Ham Utd dropped out of the race to sign the Manchester City striker #SSNHQ

Pearces_Left_Foot

Why can't they @write proper sentences #grammar

Yeoldhammer

Doesn't feel like the club are moving forward lol

Lukerz

Hahahaha I just edited it Pearces as I thought it was annoying too ;lol

Lukerz

Tbf I am baffled by the outcry on Twitter at not signing Iheanacho.

Gold said we're targeting 'proven PL strikers'.

Iheanacho is not. We don't need anymore risks. We've done that with Emenike, Zaza and Calleri.

Lukerz

Now Hernandez. Yes please.

Think we'll sign him.

grey_til_I_dye

My feeling about the NotaClugh Ihenacho article is it is all twaddle, but if it were true, I would be delighted to think that the owners have enough faith in our manager (and sense) to give him the final say in transfer dealings.

Lukerz

Grey - I think the problem is that Hugh is credited by Gold and Sully. He does have contact with them. They often give him private interviews.

So it's almost like he's been fed this news by someone (Sully?) and it is so negative about the manager it makes you wonder what the motive is?

Fortuneseeker

I have yet to read (apart from on here) or hear anyone say it is good business to wait to do your transfer business. Everyone has been congratulating how well Bournemouth, Huddersfield and Everton plus Leicester just today in getting their business done quickly. It appears some clubs just select a player they want and make an acceptable offer, none of this lets undertake transfer dealings the "Levy" way. Like Diana Ross "I am still waiting" and my patience is starting run very thin!

Yeoldhammer

prices only go up more as the window gets closer.

grey_til_I_dye

Lukerz

I don't see it as negative at all.

In the unlikely event that it actually represents what happened:

Manager doesn't want player.

Doesn't get landed with player.

Good job all round, imo.

grey_til_I_dye

Fortunes

Everyone (including DS and Slav) recognise that doing business early is ideal.

What, I fear, you have to accept, is that the transfer market is a far from ideal world.

I haven't seen one completed transfer so far that we could reasonably have got who I think we missed out on.

MrsGrey

Yeoldhammer said:

prices only go up more as the window gets closer.

That is possible, yes .. but I don't think it's that straightforward. As the deadline approaches and players fear not being signed, they may have less scope for negotiating and playing one club off against the other.

Prices can go down as well as up ;hmm

#complicated

Yeoldhammer

Or they go up to hold out for as much money as possible because they know the buying club has limited to no options and needs to sign some forwards...

TwistandShout

OldCastleSwift said:

West Ham Twitter has gone into meltdown again. Knives are really out for Bilic.

So much negativity around the club and we're nowhere near our heavy defeat to Man U yet.

Was just about to post this. The meltdown is embarrassing.

Fortuneseeker

grey, Wouldn't have been disappointed, especially after the current perceived lack of progress, with Defoe, Abrahams or Ramirez.

Has anyone got to the bottom of why we were supposed to be able to bid big bucks last season for Lacazette and Bacca when this year we don't appear to be able to compete even after we sold the Frenchman? Where has last season's pot of money gone we should have had it replenished with staying up last year.

Hamstew

Not too bothered if manager doesn't want a player. But would be pretty annoyed if it's taken this long for Bilic and our owners to realise they had different views on him.