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When you think it was only two years ago we had Arnautovic, Antonio, Hernandez, Perez & Carroll as forward options. We also had Rice, Noble, Obiang, Wilshere, Snodgrass & Sanchez as CM options.
Asset stripping or efficiency? Really not sure.
Carroll and Wilshere were regarded as sick notes. Obiang was regarded as not good as Noble by some. Hernandez and Perez were considered lazy and useless by many.
Arnie is the real big loss out of that list with Obiang not too far behind.
I, for one, never get overly excited by transfers until someone signs and then I get on with it. You only have to look at the Dawson signing that was roundly condemned by many. How silly do they now look?
We obviously need strengthening, who doesn't, but if we can't get the right players or can't afford the ones we want we have to move on.
Josh King is a player on many lips at the moment but it appears he is going to Fulham. With all due respect to Fulham is he really the type of player who will improve us, other than making up the numbers. I would rather we wait until the summer and by a striker who is better than Antonio. That would really strengthen the squad.
Do we just not like strikers any more? 😄
The only two strikers Moyes has signed whilst being manager of West Ham have been Afolayan and Hugill
😂😂
Wonder who he makes his debut against...
I mean securing a suitable replacement prior to letting a player leave - what an utterly stupid way to go about things..
We spent about net £30mil the summer of the 19/20 summer window
Then obviously we struggled, and had to bring in Bowen/Randolph for a combined £25mil approx. We couldn't afford the £15mil for Soucek so we will write that off in the summer which we did
So we spent net £55mil over the 19/20 season excluding Soucek
Then we get Soucek in the 20/21 books when we got our end our prize money from the prem finish and our sponsorship money
So we made a small profit this summer much to many peoples chagrin, but you can tell from the fact we got Benrahma on loan that cash was tight, partly because of the £55mil net spend 19/20 but mostly down to COVID
Now we sold Haller for £20mil, but we still had £20mil outstanding for buying Benrahma that was coming in the 21/22 books
I'm sure the club looked into buying a new players with that money, but if its true that Moyes wasn't keen on the players who were available...it made sense to pay off Benrahma while we have the cash available and balance the books
Yes we are light but the way we've gone about this window we can enter the 21/22 window in a much stronger position at a time when revenues are still volatile
I think the fact King is off to relegation favourites Fulham show that he's unlikely going to be the player who fires us into Europe
I also wouldn't call any of the sales we've made across the last few seasons asset stripping as other than Diangana...I can't think of a single player that has left where the fanbase have actively kicked up a fuss that they're gone