Summer Transfers 2024
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West Ham might be willing to listen to offers for Ward-Prowse, but are not actively looking to sell him. (Sky Sports) 🏌🏻♂️
The window will close on August 30 at 11pm UK time in England and Scotland. The Premier League and Scottish Premiership brought forward Deadline Day to ensure harmonisation with the major leagues in Europe. The closing dates were set following discussions with the leagues in England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France.
And the link just takes you to current football headlines
Zouma is still on holiday.
There is still interest in Solar.
Aguerd, Cornet & Ings can all leave.
Repeat till Friday 🤦♂️
https://www.westhamzone.com/transfers/west-ham-united-to-offload-duo-for-alex-oxlade-chamberlain-swoop-ahead-of-brentford/
Hope this is just another journo spinning stories and isn't true as Oxlade-Chamberlain is way past his best, lost his pace and is injury prone. The days when ageing, injury-prone footballers on their last legs moved to West Ham to collect one more paycheque have surely gone, haven't they? I remember players like Freddie Ljungberg, John Radford moving to West Ham and doing next to nothing.
Let's see.
1. What is the source?'West ham Zone'. Low credibility , not real news.
2. Who is the writer? George Overhill. Google search reveals he is a write for a bunch of websites (Goodison News; Tottenham Hotspur News;Ibrox News; West Brom news; etc) Other credentials - is part of 'Breaking Media News; asocial-media based thing that has about 20 websites and between 11 and 50 'employees' They are currently seeking Spurs fans to apply for two 'writing opportunities'.)
3. What (credible?) sources are cited in the article? The whole story is simply ascribed to being 'according to TBR Football'. One step up from, 'a guy I got chatting to in the bus queue'?
4. Follow the link and apply the same critical faculties : https://tbrfootball.com/david-ornstein-shares-length-of-contract-liverpool-are-discussing-with-federico-chiesa/
5. Check the article and delete anything irrelevant. Leaves you with this.
"TBR Football understands (doesn't say why/where from) a host of Premier League clubs are plotting to bring Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain back to England. West Ham, Wolves, Crystal Palace, Forest and Brentford are among a number of clubs interested in the former Liverpool midfielder. (Says he, but no corroboration offered.) The Hammers are ready to sell nine players this summer, including midfielders James Ward-Prowse and Tomas Soucek. Offloading the duo could make space for Oxlade-Chamberlain’s arrival. "
That's it.
These rubbish articles should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
If the bar is set so low that any 'speculation' is deemed worthy of our time, then I'm done.
Also we are actively trying to get rid of older former prem players on big wages with injury history in Ings and Zouma, to the point we may terminate their deals to save on wages
Going for Oxlade Chamberlain would literally make no sense given our strategy this summer
It's clearly rubbish.
These are minutes of our lives we won't get back again 😭
Click on the link to The Boot Room (tbrfootball.com) and not only are we one of "a host of Premier League clubs" linked with Oxlade-Chamberlain" but it says Ajax and RB Salzburg are interested,
The TBR article is credited to two journos.
On the by-line there's Sean Fisher who has "more than five years of experience" writing for "high-profile publications including GiveMeSport and Football Insider"
I've got pants with more than five years of experience
Below that the article is credited as "Exclusive from Graeme Bailey" who has "nearly 25 years" with Sky Sports and 90min. Slightly more impressive and some actual "high profile" sites
The claim that we "are ready to sell nine players this summer" has another link to another TBR article by Sean Fisher from last week which has yet another link to an article in the Times from last Tuesday
Click on that link and there's an article about Ivan Toney going to Saudi Arabia but its behind a pay-wall.
Maybe there's a bit about West Ham tagged on at the end but even if there is this story is already over a week old
Click the links, people
Sounds as if Ings, Cornet and Aguerd will be with us for a while longer
Fabrizio Romano on Twitter says AC Milan in talks Roma over Tammy Abraham but "NO talks with West Ham despite reports"
That's what they want you to do. Clickbait.
Clickbait is when headlines are exaggerated to get more people to read an article which generates more advertising revenue for that website
It doesn't work if the link goes to a different website (e.g. the link on westhamzone to TBR or the link on TBR to The Times)
I think that's exaggerated.
Abraham ❌
Welcome Neil, Neil Maupay 🤗
(His move to Liverpool remains for me one of the great unforeseen transfers, and is still a mystery.) From ATL and BTL comments elsewhere, he seems to have been a popular figure
Oh well, a good read nonetheless.
Ings / Zouma / Cornet out to reduce wage bills
Another CM and Striker in.
Is that too much?
Maupay expected to leave Everton
Latest from Sky Sports News' Alan Myers:
Neal Maupay is expected to leave Everton before Friday's transfer deadline, with Marseille and two Premier League clubs interested in signing the French forward
Also, by some miracle,it seems that Zouma has passed a medical. Also stated we are to give him a 2M sweetener to go. Please be true and his wages will be off our books
Clubs are interested in the boy Ekwah who we sold to Sunderland. They're holding out for a 5 to 7M fee and we would get about 2M of that in sell on percentage
JWPs reps are routing him and outside of the already mentioned Forest, Southampton may try for him. Surely that would be best as we will owe them a hell of a lot of the 30M we paid them for him and potentially could get rid of a lot of that so neither club would have to do much financially
Ok now I feel way too involved and Rav is the guy who does this better!