Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.

IronHerb

@ExWHUemployee

So with the money we are soon to get from Arnie. We have submitted a new offer for Gómez it appears this has turned heads. Negotiations are still going on literally as I write this so I will update it when they are concluded either way

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

What is wrong with us attracting these players.....

Both Arnie & Payet EVERYONE literally wanted them out....and we sold for derisory offers

How many other teams have had players that have done the same

That said better him be gone if he can't be bothered, don't need personalities like that, just sad we didn't cash in on him in Jan

baracks_a_hammer

So is it safe to assume now that this isn’t all hearsay?

:biggrin:

Cuz1

You can be the best player in the world but for me if he’s disruptive to the teams morale then ship him out, could understand if it was to play champions league but China really? Purely for the money, so for me it’s good riddance you don’t deserve to wear the shirt again and haven’t done for six months at least

thornburyiron

According to SSN reporter:-

"I have been in touch with a very senior source at West Ham and asked him 'are you okay with us reporting that a deal has been agreed for Arnautovic to go to China? We have heard it will be announced in two days.'


"He has just sent me a reply, and the reply says 'yes. Terrible deal for us, but manager, staff and players want him out'.

"They are so desperate to get him out of the club that they are willing to do a terrible deal to get him out of West Ham

I have had another message from someone else who knows what is going on at West Ham, and it says 'a deal is getting closer for Marko to leave €25m. We feel we have no choice but to let Marko go as it is bad for team morale if he stays.

"'The team is the most important thing and players who want to play for a team moving in the right direction is the most important thing.'"

thornburyiron

Apparently it was Pelle who wanted rid of him and the Board supported him.

steve

Most of us wanted rid of him as well so :wave:

baracks_a_hammer

We could have had him out in Jan and had Gomez in and had some change left over if this had all played out in Jan - and we might have snared a Europa spot to boot.

Isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing?

thornburyiron

According to wiki SIPG were founded at the end of 2005 and have already had 9 managers including Sven and Villas Boas.
Majority of their squad are Chinese.

baracks_a_hammer

The obvious attraction for Arnie is he can go there on a fat contract, sulk after a short while and leave by getting his contract paid up. He won’t be there more than 12 months

Yeoldhammer

thornburyiron said:

Apparently it was Pelle who wanted rid of him and the Board supported him.

This is what i think happened in Jan personally, i think Pelle wanted him out then.

steve

Good thing is ,Arnie will look pretty stupid when we start winning things next season and get into the champions leaque :thumbsup:

baracks_a_hammer

Looking at how we stand now, regardless of who we manage to sign from here on in, when you consider those who will return late after international duty, I reckon this is how we will line up on the first day

Fab

zab. Issa Oggy Cressers

noble Rice

Snodders Lanzini Anderson

Antonio

IronHerb

Fab

Freddie Issa General Arthur

Rice

Fornals Lanzini

Yarma Antonio Anderson

Gomez for Antonio should the deal happen.

everhopeful

Are we confident the interest in Issa has gone away?

ianbishoplegend

Media reports saying everyone at the club wants Arnie out. Bad egg by all accounts.

jay_in_cpt

Karma will eventually catch him out, its a big fat :wave: from me.

ASLEFshrugged

Shanghai SIPG won the league last year and are 3rd at the moment.

Their current foreign players are:-

Oscar (Bra), yes, the one that was at Chelsea
Hulk (Bra)
Elkeson (Bra) - has scored more CSL goals, 83 in 116, than any other foreign player.
Odil Ahmedov (Uzb)

Elkeson is reported to have signed with Guangzhou Evergrande (2nd) so Shanghai will have a vacancy.

Elkeson has been there since 2013 and is about to become officially Chinese so won't count as a foreign player any more.

Slacker

Glad this looks like it’s being sorted out quickly.
Get him out the door and concentrate on pre- season.
I know it’s an old cliché but no one player is bigger than the club.
He’s really shown his true colours and they’re not claret and blue.
We’ll survive.

Pearces_Left_Foot

If it goes through we pretty much got back what we paid for him improved team morale and can use the money for a striker and reduced the wage bill. So all good :biggrin:

EXETERHAMMER

Arnie must go now whatever we get for him

Yeoldhammer

Payet then Arnie.

Lanzini might be next.

Pearces_Left_Foot

People asking if Obiang has deleted him from the team what’s app group yet

baracks_a_hammer

Lanzini has never had “talisman” status at West Ham

baracks_a_hammer

Maybe this might end well for us. Did the club budget for Arnie still to be there and still get Gomez and perhaps even Rondon? And also a DM plus a rumoured central defender?

Given we now have £20m plus Arnies wage off the books, surely we can address those other areas properly? Even more so if chicha goes

I’d always struggled to get my head round how we would have accommodated Arnie, Gomez and Rondon given Pelle only plays one up front.

ASLEFshrugged

baracks_a_hammer said:

Even more so if chicha goes

That's "if", its gone a bit quiet on the Hernandez front and he's training with the squad in Switzerland.

Yeoldhammer

Chicha at least will see out his last year on his contract.

If the club needed Arnie money to get Gomez or have a chance dare I say have we got enough to get Rondon to?

We should be activating his clause before Newcastle do....

Lukerz

Get Rondon in now. He has a £16m release clause. That will leave us with Rondon & Hernandez for the foreseeable. Then we can focus on getting that first choice striker (although both of those would want to be first choice) & another CM. That replaces Arnie straight away. We’ve lost about £15m from this deal but oh well. I’m pretty sure Pelle wanted him out in Jan. He refused to play him for several games after that debacle & went with Hernandez. Always going to be a surprise if he stayed at the club this summer.

Giant_Hammer

If the club say it's a rotten deal from our point of view and everyone involved, manager players et al want him gone, what the hell has he been up to to make him so universally disliked and unwanted. Even in the ego awash world of top class footballers he must have been going it some.

Pearces_Left_Foot

There is an image of Gomez in a Valencia shirt on the interweb could be fake or not :hmm: