Summer Transfer Window 2023
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We have shown very little attacking threat in too many games this season and never really threatened Fiorentina's goal in the final. Ings is a good squad striker, Antonio can be very effective but not consistently so in my view they need build attack around Scamacca or replace him with a different type of striker.
I really hope we introduce Mouamba in some way, he is young but he has a physical presence beyond his age and we really need give him every chance to make it through.
Ajax are demanding £45m for their 25-year-old Mexico midfielder Edson Alvarez, who has emerged as another option for West Ham to replace Rice. (Guardian)
Bayern Munich's top midfield transfer target is West Ham's Rice but there have been no recent developments and Arsenal are favourites to sign him. (Sky Sport Germany, in German)
I fail to see what we get out of it though.
Thought a year or two ago he would’ve been a decent signing but he seems to underwhelm a lot of late, except the odd screamer.
Seems like a strange move, TBH.
I’m not sure how seriously Villa will take the conference league.
And I definitely think that the champs league will impact Arsenals and Newcastle’s seasons and they won’t perform as well.
Very common in Italy for these type of deals.
Overt the same time, we've sold 6 players for a profit, but five of those were academy graduates, so any sale would have meant profit.
The only person we've signed and then sold for profit in recent years is Craig Dawson, who we made £1.3m on.
Personally I really worry about the age of our squad; if, as seems likely, we extend Fabianski, Ogbonna and Cresswell by a year each and keep Antonio, that's 4 players that need replacing next summer through age before we even start to look at improving any postions we're not as strong as we'd like to be. This is why I'm very wary about signing players in their late 20's during this summer, especially at high prices; it's constantly kicking the can down the road and it's going to catch up with us sooner or later.
Since GSB took over the club in January 2010, we have made profit on 18 signings. The only player we have made more than £10m on was Dimitri Payet, and I think most would agree we were short changed in the same. Other than that, we made more than £5m or more on Darren Randolph (the first time, but we then lost £4m the second time), Havard Nordtveit (£8m), Ashley Fletcher (£5.75m), and Diafra Sakha (£5.5m).
Combined, the sale of those 18 players brought in a profit of a smidge under £64m. In the same time, we've signed 220 players at a combined cost of £684m.
Which means, roughly £620m has been spent by the club / owners, without recouping anything, in 13 years. Which is about £47.7m per season.
Yep that would be why FFP is being banded about then