Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.

Pearces_Left_Foot

I feel like a kid in the back of a car , has he signed yet NO , has he signed yet No ,has he signed yet No what about now No what about now No

Yeoldhammer

better on the lowdown means no one can nab him off the plane.

MrsGrey

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/june/14-june/west-ham-united-sign-spain-playmaker-pablo-fornals


No staying power, some people. :whistle:

OldCastleSwift said:

Hamstew said:

Happy refreshing twitter every 2 minutes day :wave:

Yeoldhammer

He's here

MrsGrey

New thread done :ok:

I'll move over comments in a mo.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

So with him signed we are currently looking at:

Fab
Fredericks Balbuena Diop Masuaku
Rice Noble
Antonio Fornals Anderson
Arnie

And for backup

Roberto
Zab Reid Ogbonna Cresswell
Wilshere Obiang
Yarmo Lanzini Snodgrass
Hernandez

Fully expect by the end we've replaced Obiang with a different defence minded MF and Hernandez with another striker

Good start to the window

Still holding out hope we will complete a deal for Maxi Gomes and go back in for Lobatka

Yeoldhammer

Need a decent CM alongside Rice. Then another CB, then a FWD. Job done then.

I imagine Maiapan is the elusive CB but need to wait to after Copa America. Maybe a Loan midfielder and striker?

IronHerb

Fab
Fredericks Balbuena Diop Masuaku
Rice
Wilshere Lanzini
Yarmelenko Fornals Anderson
Arnie

OldCastleSwift

Not sure the PL will allow us to play with 12, but I admire your optimism

baracks_a_hammer

Hopefully IH no-one will notice we are fielding 12 players. :biggrin:

Lukerz

Rice - Wilshere
Fornals - Lanzini - Anderson
Arnautovic

With Noble & Yarmolenko in rotation.

IronHerb

Always looking for an edge Barracks. :biggrin:

baracks_a_hammer

I don’t think we are going to sign another forward. I think that’s it for attacking players.

Barney

My ££££ still on Maxi Gomex...............but I am good at losing money

baracks_a_hammer

I would be astonished if we landed Maxi having just dropped £24m for Fornals.

Lukerz

Fabianski
Fredericks - Balbuena - Diop - LB
CM - Wilshere
Yarmolenko - Fornals - Anderson
ST

So bar 3 positions we have basically built a new starting 11 under Pelle in a year.

alderz

Rice was playing in a back 3 under Moyes mostly. I think Pellegrini could be credited for him coming through as a midfielder too tbh

thornburyiron

So Lukerz you wouldn’t play Rice or are you just listing signings

Lukerz

Just signings :ok:

But alderz makes a good point anyway

ASLEFshrugged

Bilic played Rice as a DM.

alderz

ASLEFshrugged said:

Bilic played Rice as a DM.

He played him as a sub or not at all most often though

whupathman

alderz said:

ASLEFshrugged said:

Bilic played Rice as a DM.

He played him as a sub or not at all most often though

:sub:

McHammer

Mitrovic favouring Betis.
Suso and Immobile mentioned for us in today's news. Imagine the irony of us signing Immobile and him staying fit.

BubblesNeverDies

Immobile - has there ever been a worse name for a striker or any sportsman for that matter.
Although I can think of a few that have played for West Ham that the name would suit. :biggrin:

OldCastleSwift

OldCastleSwift said:

Calling it now. Fornals will come in to replace Lanzini. Anderson takes the No10 shirt. Fornals takes No8 (his number at Villarreal)

OK, as unbelievable as it seems, I may have been wrong about the above. Some eagle-eyed Twitter user spotted this in the Fornals announcement video:



Which suggests he's our new No18

Hamstew

I noticed that. Was Nasris number so...

jay_in_cpt

https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/11095/11742326/west-ham-see-29m-maxi-gomez-bid-accepted-by-celta-vigo

Not jumping up and down yet, but sounds half promising... :wahoo:

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Sly also saying we've bid £13mil joan Jordan, CDM for Eibar

OldCastleSwift

jay_in_cpt said:

https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/11095/11742326/west-ham-see-29m-maxi-gomez-bid-accepted-by-celta-vigo

Not jumping up and down yet, but sounds half promising... :wahoo:

Hamstew

Is it too early to talk about his squad number? :hmm: