Transfer Deadline Day. Or as West Ham call it; Tuesday.
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I get that Aguerd is fit now, but Dawson was still picked ahead of Kehrer and Ogbonna, which suggests Moyes saw him as an important player. To actively weaken your options in the midst of a relegation battle seems a bit odd to me.
If this happens, it will feel like a bit of a youth team exodus. Alese, Perkins, Ekwah, Greenidge, Ashby and now maybe Longelo gone in a short period of time.
https://www.whufc.com/news/west-ham-united-women-bring-england-u19-international-shannon-cooke
For every youth that is at West Ham, very few make it to the first team. Some don’t even make it in the lower leagues. For every Rice, there will be several Nkagia’s. Where is he now? He also left for better chances, allegedly.
But otherwise, your post is .. erm...
Fact is that Southampton, Bournemouth, Wolves, Leicester and Leeds have all signed more players than us. Obviously we have no idea what bearing that will have in final league positions, but I can understand the concern with our business (or lack of) in this window.
Don't get me wrong, Ings was a good signing, but does nothing to address the perceived issues at the back, nor the distinct lack of pace in the team.
Nobody knows who we may have tried to sign.
That is all.
No-one is right, no-one is wrong.
It's largely irrelevant who we tried to sign. Who we tried to sign will have no impact on the rest of the season. Getting deals done, or failing to get them done, will.
IMO, of course.
If we'd basically told Dawson he could go in this window when we refused to let him go in the summer, then we should have been on the look-out for the last 5 months, if not, then we shouldn't have let him go. I get that £3.3m is a good price for him with so little left on his contract, but it will hardly be good business if we go down because of inadequate cover at CB.
We need more than one player who has seen his best days. A waste of money.
https://www.whufc.com/news/emmanuel-longelo-completes-birmingham-city-switch
River Plate to Benfica Aug 22 for 10M
Benfica to Chelsea Jan 23 for 106m
That's a lot of profit to make in five months. Although it's reported River Plate will get 20Million of the fee due to a sell on fee.
Look where we are! The scattergun / no clear plan or playing style policy continues. We buy players to leave on the bench or don’t suit the Premier league like Paqueta and Scamacca and continue with our out of form players.
This has been going on so long now any improvement is very short lived and seems it is more by luck than judgement.
Our squad is good. It’s really good. We just need the manager to get them firing.
We also lost a CM option - although one that Moyes rarely used - and sold four Academy players.
Assuming Torino haven't yet exercised their option on Vlasic, in terms of the financials we had a net spend of c.£5.5m. Ings is now said to be our highest earner (reported to be £125k p/w), which will have been largely offset by the wages saved on Dawson (£45k p/w) and Randolph (£35k p/w).
So there we go. We go into the second half of the season in 16th place, three points of the bottom but in the ECL knock out stages and still in the FA Cup. We have injuries to four key players and fewer options at the back.
We've transitioned to a back three but only have one natural wingback, which is why the Ashby situation is so frustrating because he was our most natural modern fullback that could have been an option on the right.
If everyone is fit, our match day squad is good:
Fab
Zouma Ogbonna Aguerd
Coufal Rice Paqueta Emerson
Bowen Scamacca Benrahma
Areola, Cresswell, Kehrer, Downes, Soucek, Fornals, Cornet, Antonio, Ings
But with current injuries to Zouma, Cornet, Ings and Scamacca, and our injury record in general, I don't think we'll see that squad too often.
But it's all on Moyes now. He's made his bed. Let's see how this one pans out.