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ianbishoplegend

I only watched youtube and saw he has a cracking right and left boot. Problem is we don't pacey wingers to aim at like Anderlecht. I would put him in Nobles place, but I love Noble right now in the relegation scrap. I think we need Mario and Koyoutes energy next to him.

jay_in_cpt

Grey ;ok
Only time will tell I guess.

secrethammersfan

I tried an experiment this window, and only took my transfer gossip from one source. They all report from each other, anyway. If I was reading the BBC, who would say that we were after Dinkeydonkey, and then later the same day, I was reading the Guardian, or the Daily Mail, where West Ham's interest in Dinkeydonkey was also reported (but from the same source!), and then maybe an account on Twitter would pick it up, and report the BBC's report that West Ham were after Dinkeydonkey, then checking here, where three or four different people would report their own individual sources about Dinkeydonkey, it would in fact appear that there is a lot of hype and rumours abound, saying that everybody is saying that West Ham is going after Dinkeydonkey. I often doubt the strength of the original source. (If the original source was one throwaway statement from Dinkeydonkey's agent, along the lines of "He'd love a move to England, maybe one of the London clubs, like West Ham", then it means all this hullaballoo came about off a thoughtless comment.

Anyway. This window, I decided to read only the transfer news on this site, and ignored the gossip columns everywhere else. When I saw somebody mention e.g. Dinkeydonkey a second time, I took that to mean "Yeah, I heard that, too!"

Conclusion: West Ham United football club, the directors and management team did not overpromise, and were not making a song and dance about transfers. The media bubble of Twitter quoting the BBC's quote of the Express' quote from a dodgy "insider" makes it seem like there is so much going on, but it's all noise.

fin

secrethammersfan

But has any of the three Davids?

Vorselaarhammer

;hmm .

http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=132155 West Ham United have been offered the opportunity to sign defensive midfielder Jan Kirchhoff on a free transfer.

MrsGrey

vorse, I just added the topic to your post - make it easier for folks to decide if they want to read further or not ;ok

ianbishoplegend

Great post.

Vorselaarhammer said:

;hmm .

http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=132155 West Ham United have been offered the opportunity to sign defensive midfielder Jan Kirchhoff on a free transfer.

Fuel to the fire from a very anti board website...

PrestonHammer

I personally am not anti board, I just wish they would just stop doing stupid things and leaving signings to the last minute.

ianbishoplegend

I bet every prem team has been offered him. Strange that the story rolls out today with everyone mad about the DM not being signed.

Fortuneseeker

Preston,

& then not making the late minute signings.

PrestonHammer

The "There wasn't enough time" excuse does my head in. If they started a week earlier then there would be enough time.

baracks_a_hammer

I read somewhere the deal was pulled by Anderlecht because it left them with no time to find a replacement - which is highly likely if only 2 hours are left in the window ;lol

It still points to trying to squeeze it all into the last day

thornburyiron

I was listening to a football agent on the radio this afternoon who said it normally takes 4-6 weeks of negotiations to complete a transfer and that the January window doesn't allow enough time. It didn't make it clear which player he was talking about but he said that it's not as simple as club A bidding for a player from club B and that's it. Especially in January most clubs will only complete a deal if they have a replacement in line which will come to fruition which is why the Sanchez affair etc took so long.
For all we know we may have had bids in since Jan 1 but couldn't finish the deals off.

Fortuneseeker

Baracks,

I heard they couldn't get Mitrovic back from Newcastle because they couldn't raise the funds by selling one of their players.

Fortuneseeker

bbb,

We heard the same report, unless it was fake news! ;wink

PrestonHammer

I know it can take 4 weeks at least of you are buying an Atletico Bilbao player because you have to be a Basque to play for them.

IronHerb

Ahem. Athletic Bilbao.

PrestonHammer

Sorry my mistake.

IronHerb

;wink

Huttonhammer

It seems quite incredible that Leicester wouldn't let us have Slimani because of Karen Brady.
What on earth does she actually do that is positive for this club ? All she seems to do is upset everyone.

Cuz1

Because she is part of the board with there ego

Chappers

Fortuneseeker said:

Clappers on another thread has said it's time for a change at the top as the 2 Davids can't deliver on what they may genuinely like as they haven't got the funds to bankroll it.

I have no doubt that their business intentions are good regarding the club as a whole. Lets face it, it is their business after all and no one wants their own business to go foul.
If they haven't got the bunce to back up their targets and claims then I'd like to see them keep quiet about pretty much everything and get on with the job in hand.
If that isn't achievable or they can't keep out of the spotlight for one min then the writing is on the wall and should allow someone to take the club on who will.

There's plenty of other clubs owners who get on with it without the need of the celebrity of being a football club owner.

Chappers

I am looking forward to seeing what the boy Hugill can do and I am sure he will be giving it his all in these coming games as he has it all to prove.

BubblesNeverDies

Baroness Karren Brady, the modern face of the House of Lords and the best example of the justification for its abolition.

grey_til_I_dye

Bubbles

Oh, I think we can come up with better justification...

MrsGrey

Are they actually alive?

OldCastleSwift

Serving the country splendidly well there ;lol

thornburyiron

I'd like to be paid £300+ per day to sleep.

SuzanneClaret

Me too....

OldCastleSwift

The guy in the maroon tie, is still there, incidentally.

He died two weeks ago.