The Next Transfer Window

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  • Ravel49Ravel49
    AJETI COMPLETES MEDICAL

    West Ham forward Albian Ajeti has now completed his medical at Celtic.

    An initial loan move with an option to buy for £5m has been agreed, but the Hoops are now trying to make it an immediate permanent transfer.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    edited August 2020
    Easy to verify - Wiki stats for Declan Rice.

    Youth career:
    Chelsea: 2006-2014
    West Ham: 2014-2015

    Senior career:
    West Ham: 2015-

    I reckon he counts as one of ours. B)


    BTW Deanscaleshammer, your handle is an anagram of "Declans a hammer" (plus an extra e and s) =)
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Nottingham Forest have put a £15m price tag on RB Matty Cash, down from the £17m they were asking in January (Mirror).
  • nychammer66nychammer66
    If a yeti moves to Scotland, will he become a Nessie?
  • yoyoyoyo
    That Ajeti joke was abominable
  • LukerzLukerz
    I ksnow man
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    A bigfoot baller
  • Brother_SledgeBrother_Sledge
    I would keep Anderson and let Lanzini go . They are both 27 and I think Anderson could be real quality again with a decent run in the side to get his confidence, form and fitness back up. He is bigger and stronger than Lanzini and he presses and gets the ball back better. I didn't really think his attitude/motivation was too bad.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited August 2020
    Latest from Ex’s transfer podcast:

    Declan Rice will remain a West Ham player unless Chelsea come in with an offer in excess of £70m. The deal could then happen.

    Rico Henry is West Ham’s number 1 LB target.

    CB is a priority position; with John Stones, Phil Jones & Shane Duffy under consideration.

    Eberechi Eze is a priority transfer target & the player is interested in a move to West Ham.

    West Ham have enquired into Jeff Hendrick, who is a free agent.

    Ollie Watkins is out of West Ham’s price range.

    David Moyes is no longer interested in Matty Cash.

    Rumours of a new contract for Michail Antonio are false.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    edited August 2020
    In addition, alternatives to Cash (who would cost money) are Clyne (free), Dalot (loan) and Fosu-Mensah (loan).

    Back-up options to Stones, Jones and Duffy are Steve Cook (relegated with Bournemouth) or Craig Dawson (relegated with Watford).

    Another midfield target is Lundstram of Sheff Utd, who is also free.

    There was definitely a theme to the podcast...
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited August 2020
    Surely Stones on a loan deal is a sensible & realistic option. Euros coming up in 2021, he will want regular game time & will be motivated to impress. There still isn’t a great selection of English CBs so a good season would bring him into Southgate’s thinking. Money is no object to City & he will not play for them. I am sure they will contribute a % towards his wages.

    Throw in an option to buy for around £20m. Seems a decent deal.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Rico Henry has been linked with various clubs but Villa might have an advantage as Dean Smith gave Henry his first team debut at Walsall then brought him to Brentford.

    Guardian, Daily Mail and Newcastle Chronicle say Hendrick is going to be a Barcode
  • SlackerSlacker
    ASLEFshrugged said:

    Slacker said:

    It’s hard to watch “one of our own” playing for the likes of Chelsea, Man U or ,god forbid, Spurs but I’m afraid it was always the way unless you go back to the Brooking/Bonds era.

    Brooking/Bonds era? We were just as bad before that.

    We sold Martin Peters to Spurs in 1970, one of the greatest all round players ever to pull on an England shirt. Not only did be become Spurs captain he scored twice against us (and another two for Norwich)

    And for the umpteenth time Billy Bonds was not "one of our own", he was 20 when he joined us in May 1967 but before that he had made 100 appearances for Charlton Athletic, making his first team debut against Northampton Town on 20 February 1965.
    Oddly enough I knew that. But you get my point.

  • LukerzLukerz
    Surely we can’t be interested in Steve Cook?
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Slacker said:

    Oddly enough I knew that. But you get my point.

    My point is we were always a "selling" club, even back then. Brooking had offers from Forest and Spurs when we were relegated in 1978 but fortunately Ron Greenwood assured him that his England place would be unaffected if he stayed with West Ham.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    John Stones might have more of a future at Manchester City as I understand they were only considering selling him as they thought Eric Garcia was happy to stay but he isn't as he wants to return to Barcelona. I see the thorny subject of having to spend some money has raised it's ugly head yet again. Very few players who are available on transfers are ones that their current clubs actually want to hang on to. David Moyes said he didn't want other teams cast offs. I watch this developing situation over the next month or two.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Lukerz said:

    Surely Stones on a loan deal is a sensible & realistic option. Euros coming up in 2021, he will want regular game time & will be motivated to impress. There still isn’t a great selection of English CBs so a good season would bring him into Southgate’s thinking. Money is no object to City & he will not play for them. I am sure they will contribute a % towards his wages.

    Throw in an option to buy for around £20m. Seems a decent deal.

    Stones would probably do okay with us. We don't play out from the back which is where a lot of his errors come from. An obvious link because Moyes signed him (I think?) at Everton, and in theory we have Zaba and Sanchez's wages to subsidise his City wage.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Who'd'a thunk that someone would prefer Barcelona to Manchester - what's the world coming to? B)
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Stones stinks of old transfer mistakes to me. Trying to rescue the career of a once-rated player, potentially on a loan deal that will disrupt our current CB pairing.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    CELTIC TO COMPLETE AJETI DEAL

    Celtic will today complete the signing of West Ham forward Albian Ajeti on a permanent transfer for a fee of around £5m.

    The Swiss international has agreed terms on a four-year deal with the Scottish champions.

    Sky Sports News understands the striker is taking a significant pay cut from his £60,000 a week wage at West Ham.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited August 2020
    Stones was the last player Moyes signed at Everton, he was manager for another five months before he moved to Man Utd.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Agree with everything lukerz said

    A loan with an option to buy makes sense, because I also agree with outcast as this seems like a typical west ham signing that doesnt go normally end well

    At least a loan takes some of the risk, and it's no doubt hes talented
  • alderzalderz
    OutcastLondoner said:

    Stones stinks of old transfer mistakes to me. Trying to rescue the career of a once-rated player, potentially on a loan deal that will disrupt our current CB pairing.

    I know what you're saying, but I disagree.

    His career doesn't need 'rescuing' in the way that Joe Hart or Jack Wilshere did. He still played 24 games last season and got 2 England caps last year.

    Personally, I am not concerned about disrupting our CB pairing as they haven't ever looked truly convincing, and Ogbonna will need to replaced eventually.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    I guess that's fair but I'm still skeptical. What I meant about breaking up a CB pairing is with a loan that might not work out. You could end up with Ogbonna put out because we're desperate to see if Stones works out but at the end of the day he returns to Man City. I accept it's not exactly like previous signings but it's expensive, comes with greater risks than buying a fresher talent and I assume he'll not offer much sell-on value.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Ajeti gone for undisclosed fee:
    https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2020/august/13-august/albian-ajeti-departs-west-ham-united-celtic
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited August 2020
    We have money!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳

    Edit - Haller paid off now then...
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited August 2020
    Stones made 24 appearances by 9 of those were off the bench and he only made 12 Premier League starts, he was third (or even fourth) choice behind Otamendi and Fernandinho (who was preferred at CB despite mostly being a DM).

    With Otamendi supposedly off to Valencia and Garcia wanting to go back to Barcelona things might look a little better but he's still competing for a place with Fernandinho, Laporte and Ake.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    If the twitter report of EX is correct it's very bad news in my view regard Rice. If stating 70m plus they have confirmed he is for sale and not placed a prohibitive price upon his head to deter. They could have said It would have to be 100m which does place him into the for sale bracket as each player is but makes the price prohibitive.

    My hope is that Chelsea have more than one big target and go for someone else as i cant see them making two transfers at that price. Unfortunately Rice is exactly what they need in my view so they may go for him.

    A bit of a choker for them in the Pogba mould to have had a player on your books and let him go only to have to pay top price to get him back again.

    I have always stuck my neck out regard Rice and am happy to do so, I genuinely feel he will be England Captain and as good as Bobby Moore.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited August 2020
    The £70m price tag was being reported back in April, before that Man U were supposed to be preparing a £70m bid last October (by November it was £80m) and back in February 2019 it was speculated that Man City would offer £70m in the summer.

    Maybe his full name is Declan £70m Rice...
  • yoyoyoyo
    For once......PLEASE LORD!!!! For once IF we sell a class player, then let us get a true valuation for them and not let them go under valued. He is class and with the right coaching and future progression can become a world class game controller from the back. He should not only be valued on what he currently is but on what he can become. Just think how good he will become over the next 10 years or so
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