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I can therefore conclude that it has been a great transfer window.
He is one of our greats and as good as one of our own. A low point yesterday was hearing the rumour of his potential departure. That would have been a disaster
A no thrills fully committed defender and getting better with age. Get this man a new contract...NOW. ;bowdown
On paper the 2 in are probably more suited to Moyes than the 2 out (Mario > Ayew and Hugill > Wantaway Sakho), but to have finished the window with a negative net spend says a lot about how much the board want us to progress as a club imo. We're short of players, we've a load of injuries, and yet we manage to make a profit on the window for the second January running after only paying a fee for 2 senior players in the summer.
I think part two of this exercise will be done in the summer - AC really needs to go, and perhaps Hernandez too if he doesn’t deliver in Moyes’ system. If some or all of this happens, then the base will have been reset.
Hart
Adrian
Byram (injured)
Zabaleta
Cresswell
Fonte (injured)
Collins
Reid
Ogbonna
Rice
Oxford
Burke
Noble
Kouyate
Obiang
Fernandes (injured)
Cullen
Lanzini
Arnautovic
Antonio (injured)
Masuaku
Hernandez
Martinez
Carroll
Ayew
Sakho
26 players, 22 available (20 outfield)
By the end of the window, our first team squad looks like this:
Hart
Adrian
Byram
Zabaleta
Cresswell
Fonte
Collins
Reid (injured)
Ogbonna
Rice
OxfordBurkeNoble
Kouyate
Obiang (injured – out for the season)
Fernandes (injured)
Cullen
Lanzini (injured)
Arnautovic (injured)
Antonio
Masuaku (banned for 6 matches)
Mario
Hernandez
Hugill
MartinezCarroll (injured – out for the season)
AyewSakho23 players, 16 players available (14 outfield)
We have actively weakened our squad. How anyone can say this has been a good window for anyone other than the Sullivans is beyond me.
£24m in from the sale of Ayew and Sakho.
£13m spend on Mario and Hugill.
I suspect Hugill is on no more than the £30k p/w we were paying Sakho, and the £105k p/w we're reportedly paying Mario will be covered in the main by the £90k p/w we're now not paying Ayew.
So, even if we allow for the extra £15k a week we're paying Mario for the 16 weeks that he'll be here, that's only £240k more, set against the £11m profit on sales.
Now I know injuries have played their part, but they happened early enough for us to get something done. Even with Obiang, there were four days to get someone in to cover him, but instead we're left with two senior CMs. An injury to either Noble or Kouyate and Cullen is a PL starter (or we play Zaba or Rice out of position).
I admire people's positivity, I really do, and I wish I could share it, but the business we've done is poor, IMO. Mario, who is effectively Ayew's replacement, will have to be replaced himself in the summer because there's no way we're meeting the £39m option on him. We'll need a new GK because we won't be retaining Hart. That's not to mention the DM that we will still need for the third window running. The board have already put themselves under pressure to get the business done in the summer because of their failures this month (and, arguably, in August).
I was honestly hoping I'd be feeling better this morning abot the whole sorry affair, but I actually feel worse.
Apologies for the grumbling.
If we win on Saturday I'll feel better.
But we won't.
I'm going now.
Bye.
He is now a West Ham player and I would want any player to do well for the club and if he does become the next Dean Ashton then great.
My view though is that we signed a player who has played for not one decent team and has an average record in the championship. He is not going to compete with any of the players already at West Ham for a place in my view and I dont see how he could have been scouted for very long or we would have gone for him early in the transfer window. We must have had money spare as we had money for Carvalho in the last window but messed up the signing.
If you think about it with the money we did not spend on Carvalho and the money from the sale of Ayew our board could have gone for a much better player but the board must be rubbing their hands together and congratulating each other on the money they are making for themselves.
The fact we have a paper thin squad doesn't matter to them it seems. The 17 richest club buying mediocre players from Preston how absolutely fantastic.
It feels, and I stress feels, that we are being strung along and I really don’t like it.
Can't agree with the 'weakening' comments. 2 out, 2 in plus (compared to the beginning of the season) 2 kids who look like the manager thinks are good enough to help us on more than just a 'warm body on the bench' level.
I was never of the opinion we should buy players to cover for injuries unless it is an injury that rules a player out for a really long time. Plus I have felt for a while that we have been a bit over-supplied in the forwards department.
I think some of the changes in plans from the summer to now might have been occasioned by (a) it's January - a whole different kettle of fish and (b) a new manager wants to put his own stamp on the squad.
I am outraged if those Tony Henry comments turn out to have foundation. Sack him, right now.
But most importantly, Hamstew owes me a Curly Wurly because I won our bet. ;wahoo
There should, ideally, be no factions at all.
Quite why people can't take responses at face value when they disagree with their own, rather than corralling users into non-existent groups baffles me.
If those users who find that their negative views of the board are not echoed by all and sundry on here need to shove us all into a group, I find that both strange and sad, but I suppose it does make it easier to dismiss those who disagree with them, rather than having to think about what they have to say.
http://www.whu606.com/discussion/10464
The incomings they did make were ok, Mario is a very good buy and while personally i feel underwhelmed by the Preston guy he could be a smart piece of business
But to end the window over £10mil in profit with a squad as stretched as ours is unforgiveable
The squad is still short and we dont even have the kids to pack the bench (although i honestly feel loans long term will be good for them)
Mario looks the business, Hugill is a punt but not an overly expensive one so if he turns out to be a Sam Baldock/Nicky Maynard rather than a Dean Ashton it won't be too bad.
We offloaded Sakho who wanted away and Ayew who never really worked out
We kept Ginger
Now we get through to the end of the season, get Moyes to commit to a long term contract and give him complete freedom to build his own team
In all the excitement over Hugill - I almost forgot that we had failed to sign a DM - the only position we went into this and the last window really needing to sort out.
I'm so absent minded ;doh
Patience, Grasshopper......
Seen a lot worse.
Apparently, another low ball offer made....
on players coming in, than players going out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5226085/Premier-League-January-transfer-window-2018-deals.html