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
If ever there was a time we should it would be this. long Contract, young player, home grown, good attitude and no injurie issues. If you don't extract full value here you never will, in my view that is 90m minimum.
Problem here is that his value seems to differ depending on who is commenting. From the sounds of it, the club value him at £70m, so if they get £70m then they will have extracted just valued from the buying club. If someone else thinks he’s worth £100m then they’ll be disappointed, anyone who thinks he’s worth £50m will be pretty impressed with that price.
West Ham United want more than £80m for England midfielder Declan Rice, 21, amid interest from Chelsea. (Times - subscription required)
From the gossip column on BBC.
The same page also claims that Chelsea want Chilwell still and are being quoted £80m for him. So that’s £90m for Havertz, £80m for Chilwell and £70m-£90m for Rice? In the same climate where Man Utd have said that £100m for Sancho is unrealistic? I can’t see it happening, you know.
Re the news that Chelsea may offer Michy Batshuayi and Ross Barkley in swap for Declan Rice and possibly some cash. It is not just about the price for Rice, and I would be very sad if he left, it is also about the wages of the two players which are probably high, Chelsea can afford to pay them as they generate extra income through the Champions League.
In the post-Covid world, with teams playing behind closed doors and foregoing gate and other receipts it would be very difficult for WHU to match the Chelsea wages and I can't see the players volunteering for a wage cut. So it is ahrd to see why they would come to WHU. The wage bill is a conundrum for WHU and they need to shift some less-useful high earners, and that won't be easy. WHU need to find some gems in the lower leagues or foreign leagues (like Soucek).
West Ham are in a three-way battle with Napoli and favourites Inter Milan for Dynamo Kiev and Ukraine defender Vitaliy Mykolenko, 21. (Sky Sport Italy)
On West Ham Way podcast Ex says that the club are claiming the reason they don't have any money for transfers and need to sell before we can buy is that this season has left them £70m short.
£50m from "gate, corporate, club shop, programmes, share of catering" plus another £15-20m for finishing 16th rather than mid table as was predicted (allegedly).
Assuming that all the other clubs are in the same boat this could end up being a very quiet transfer window
ASLEF, If half the Premier league teams have already done some sort of business it hasn't been a very quiet start to the window! Ramsdale £18.5 million to Sheffield United & on smaller crowds? Until we get some new investment we are always going to struggle to be really competitive.
Different scenario, Sheffield United have just had their first EPL season I.e. if they lost £50mil from Covid they would still be £40mil profitable from the TV money
Plus they didnt make a whole load of signings, so probably still have a championship wage bill
They have that bring in a keeper as they are losing henderson who was instrumental for them
And havent we already spent about that sum on soucek THIS window?
Dont understand this, unless we invest we wont be competitive yet we spent over £150mil the last 4 windows and found ourselves 17th plus weve made the highest signings of any of the bottom 10 clubs (Soucek)
We do seem to have a pretty good squad ,Just need moyes to get them playing as a unit ,Which he seemed to be in the last few games ,Soucek and Bowen i hope will Make a big differance over 38 games ,Need to get Haller ,Anderson,Lanzini up and playing as we know they can seeing as they could still be with us in the new season
To be fair we did business in the January window and it likely kept us up. It was business we probably wouldn't have done had we been sat in mid table safety so I consider Bowen and Soucek pretty much new signings for this season with the added bonus that they have already had their settling in period. We also have Diangana coming back as a third new signing and so I am not overly upset that we need sell to buy. Ideally we can get some money in, we have already got a little from Celtic and if we could find a buyer for Lanzini and a couple of the lesser lights we could bring in one or two more.
Its been covered already but its clear that by a country mile the important part of this window is to keep Rice, aside from his quality the versatility of Rice is exactly what we need in if we cannot afford to buy, in him we have both a DM and CB to play where needed.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53755841
Good luck to the lad, hopefully Celtic is his square hole
Edouard to Arsenal
Aubameyang to Barcelona
Griezzman to PSG
Mbappe to Man City
Aguero to Bayern
Lewandowski to West Ham
From the gossip column on BBC.
The same page also claims that Chelsea want Chilwell still and are being quoted £80m for him. So that’s £90m for Havertz, £80m for Chilwell and £70m-£90m for Rice? In the same climate where Man Utd have said that £100m for Sancho is unrealistic? I can’t see it happening, you know.
Rice will end up at Chelsea, it just won’t be this summer.
19 clubs in his senior career, he just joined Plymouth after being released from Colchester because of the coronavirus.
I think you forgot Oblak for around £100m to Chelsea.
Some decent info here.
Watford have signed teenage right-back Jeremy Ngakia from West Ham.
The Hammers academy product made five Premier League starts last season and did not sign a new deal at the London Stadium as it expired this summer.
The 19-year-old has now signed a permanent deal with Watford and will join up with the squad for pre-season training next week.
Good luck to the kid
In the post-Covid world, with teams playing behind closed doors and foregoing gate and other receipts it would be very difficult for WHU to match the Chelsea wages and I can't see the players volunteering for a wage cut. So it is ahrd to see why they would come to WHU. The wage bill is a conundrum for WHU and they need to shift some less-useful high earners, and that won't be easy. WHU need to find some gems in the lower leagues or foreign leagues (like Soucek).
£50m from "gate, corporate, club shop, programmes, share of catering" plus another £15-20m for finishing 16th rather than mid table as was predicted (allegedly).
Assuming that all the other clubs are in the same boat this could end up being a very quiet transfer window
Different scenario, Sheffield United have just had their first EPL season I.e. if they lost £50mil from Covid they would still be £40mil profitable from the TV money
Plus they didnt make a whole load of signings, so probably still have a championship wage bill
They have that bring in a keeper as they are losing henderson who was instrumental for them
And havent we already spent about that sum on soucek THIS window?
Dont understand this, unless we invest we wont be competitive yet we spent over £150mil the last 4 windows and found ourselves 17th plus weve made the highest signings of any of the bottom 10 clubs (Soucek)
Its been covered already but its clear that by a country mile the important part of this window is to keep Rice, aside from his quality the versatility of Rice is exactly what we need in if we cannot afford to buy, in him we have both a DM and CB to play where needed.