Summer Transfer Window 2023

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  • alderzalderz
    Lukerz said:

    So, if all goes well, Kudos could be flying back with Steidten today.

    I just pressed 'Excellent' on this, but in reality I have never seen this guy play, and until last week I'd never even heard of him. His stats didn't excite me particularly, but ooh! New thing! Exciting! Shiny!
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Have seen him play a few times and he’s really exciting. A bit like Lingard in being very fast and direct but think he’s got more dribbling ability.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Just spotted this one

    Marko Arnautovic has returned to Inter after 13 years, on loan from Bologna (finished 9th Serie A) with an option to buy if certain conditions are met

    He'll be 35 in April
  • PengemanPengeman
    "West Ham had a £40million bid for 25-year-old Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke rejected last month" https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/west-ham-united-make-40m-bid-for-dominic-solanke-transfer/ .

    Not sure what Moyes drinks these days, but £40m for Solanke? Is there a rush to spend the Declan Rice money?
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    Some might say DM is trying to spend all the money we have in an attempt to ensure any new manager doesn't have any funds to buy new players?
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Lukerz said:

    So, if all goes well, Kudos could be flying back with Steidten today.

    Shouldn't that be kudos to Steidten for flying back with Kudus today.

    #coatplease
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    edited August 2023
    Which one of the two, if either, do people think we should be pursuing "properly" Doku who is all set to go to Manchester City or Wahi who we could missed out on IF we are genuinely trying to hijack the Doku deal? Rumours are Pep won’t pay the extra £5 million to sign Paqueta it’s not actually coming out of his pocket by the way!
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/manchester-city-deal-to-sign-west-ham-united-star-lucas-paqueta-cancelled-over-confidential-issues/

    Don't shoot the messenger!
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited August 2023
    Fortuneseeker said:

    https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/manchester-city-deal-to-sign-west-ham-united-star-lucas-paqueta-cancelled-over-confidential-issues/

    Don't shoot the messenger!

    Its our old friend Alan Nixon of The Sun (on his Patreon although I'm not going to pay to find out why)

    Good news if its true, Paqueta certainly doesn't seem to be the sort of player to go into an Incredible Sulk over this
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited August 2023
    Sky reporting it is on hold & 90% unlikely to happen.

    We have set a price of the £85m release fee & City haven’t gone any higher than £60m-£70m.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Hardly “cloaked in secrecy” as Nixon suggests
  • LukerzLukerz
    Kudus has played the majority of his games as a CM, second most is ST, then attacking midfield. So he looks to me like a replacement for Paqueta, maybe we will sanction that deal if we can sign him. If we don’t Paqueta stays. He could be a striking option. He’s never played on the left.
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    edited August 2023
    If we’re genuinely interested in Kudus then I could see him playing on the right to allow Bowen to play up front.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Kudus played (and scored) as a RW on Saturday

    Last season he was RW from end of January onwards although before than he switched around between CF, AM and RW.

    The two seasons before that he was mostly an AM/CM.
  • SlackerSlacker
    Pengeman said:

    "West Ham had a £40million bid for 25-year-old Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke rejected last month" https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/west-ham-united-make-40m-bid-for-dominic-solanke-transfer/ .

    Not sure what Moyes drinks these days, but £40m for Solanke? Is there a rush to spend the Declan Rice money?

    Pretty sure the manager doesn’t set the fee mate. Don’t they identify the player and the rest is up to to those who negotiate?

  • alderzalderz
    Pengeman said:

    "West Ham had a £40million bid for 25-year-old Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke rejected last month" https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/west-ham-united-make-40m-bid-for-dominic-solanke-transfer/ .

    Not sure what Moyes drinks these days, but £40m for Solanke? Is there a rush to spend the Declan Rice money?

    Surely Moyes would have just said “I’d like Dom Solanke” and then someone else would do the negotiations? Also, I would say 85% of transfer deals this summer have looked hugely overpriced to me.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    35 million for Lewis Hall, who's played 8 games or so. Yep, this window's transfers have been hugely overpriced.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    When Moyes was asked if JWP was going to be captain, he said it was going to be game by game atm and he'd decide when the transfer window is shut; to me that's an admission that he's still waiting on Maguire to come in.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    buffy, DM will have a problem if Tim comes back with a younger CH from Germany. 😉
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 2023
    The suggestion is that the Greek CH we've been looking at has a long standing back issue, isn't currently fit, and may well need an operation. I still think Maguire is likely to rock up here by the end of the window.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    buffy, There are reported to be 5 CH’s we are being linked with from the Budesliga we may yet sign one. 😄. I am saying this more in hope than certainty as the other scenario isn’t good IMHO.
  • epsom_bubblesepsom_bubbles
    I hope the team doesn't become like Trigger's broom. It feels like we changed all the handles last transfer window, and all the heads this transfer window. The same team, but different handles and heads??
  • ScotHammerScotHammer
    edited August 2023
    I’m interested in what people think….

    Are West Ham partly responsible for the current high fees being charged for average or unproven players? I think rightly we asked for that money for Rice, but now everyone is going for huge, and IMO unwarranted, money. Or is it more because of the Saudi money?
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    All clubs are responsible. The money just moves around.
    I wish that for every transfer, a percentage went to grass roots football or a good cause. Even just 1% would make a difference.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Paqueta being investigated for betting breaches, according to the Mail (exclusive).
  • alderzalderz
    ScotHammer said:

    I’m interested in what people think….

    Are West Ham partly responsible for the current high fees being charged for average or unproven players? I think rightly we asked for that money for Rice, but now everyone is going for huge, and IMO unwarranted, money. Or is it more because of the Saudi money?

    It’s also Chelsea and fees they’re willing to pay, and the fact that some of the top teams seem pretty desperate.
  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    Chelsea paying 106M or so for their Artentine DM didnt help and possibly made it viable for us to expect such a large fee for Rice. All their other business like Mudryks price may have contributed too
  • PengemanPengeman
    A worrying headline, if true.
    West Ham star Lucas Paqueta is being investigated by the FA for potential betting breaches, as his £70m transfer to Man City collapses, three months after Ivan Toney was handed a ban https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12421055/West-Ham-star-Lucas-Paqueta-investigated-FA-potential-betting-breaches-70m-transfer-Man-City-collapses.html

    If the Toney precedent is anything to go by, he will get a lengthy ban. So. WHU will need a replacement. When will these guys learn.

  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    buffybegood said:

    The suggestion is that the Greek CH we've been looking at has a long standing back issue, isn't currently fit, and may well need an operation. I still think Maguire is likely to rock up here by the end of the window.

    Mavropanos stayed on the bench last Saturday for the Pokal 1st round match against TSG Balingen (German 4th tier) and they put out the "A team".

    He didn't get much of a pre season either, just 45 minutes against Vitesse Arnhem 22 July and 30 minutes in the last friendly against Sheffield Utd 5 August.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Pengeman said:

    A worrying headline, if true.
    West Ham star Lucas Paqueta is being investigated by the FA for potential betting breaches, as his £70m transfer to Man City collapses, three months after Ivan Toney was handed a ban https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12421055/West-Ham-star-Lucas-Paqueta-investigated-FA-potential-betting-breaches-70m-transfer-Man-City-collapses.html

    If the Toney precedent is anything to go by, he will get a lengthy ban. So. WHU will need a replacement. When will these guys learn.

    You'd think there might well be something in it, Man City supposedly lost interest due to "a confidential issue" according to a number of tweets earlier today.
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