Transfer Deadline Day: The Final Reckoning

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  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    productive summer...


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  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    baracks_a_hammer said:

    Can’t belive Fulham signed a £20m dm after already snaring seri

    Maybe they recognised a problem area of the team that needed improving and went about finding a solution by obtaining a couple of quality players to resolve the issue. ;wink
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    You never know, Sanchez might surprise us all.
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    I’m all for giving the manager a chance with his signings think one thing we have is strength in numbers no more well he can play there if needs be, a manager with a game plan and players who can execute it am I a supporter of a new era, the hell I am count me in
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    edited August 2018
    Just wondering, is the strategy of buying in someone at around the age of 16-18 (ie another team’s youth player) worth it? Has any such player bought by West Ham actually ever broken into to the first team and played reasonably regularly in recent times?

    We have the likes of Sead, Toni Martinez, Samuelson, Quina, Ashley Fletcher who look more likely to be misses than hits?

    Is it therefore actually worth it?

    Our best hopes in terms of younger players right now appear to be Rice and Cullen who are our own academy players.
  • alderzalderz
    Rice came in from Chelsea after being released, I think age 15, could be wrong on the age though.

    Off the top of my head, Collison & Defoe both joined as 16yos
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Didn’t know that about Declan ;ok
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Rice was 14 when he was released by Chelsea, we signed him when he was 15.

    Collison was 17 when he signed with us having been with Peterborough and Cambridge Utd. Defoe was 16 and we had to pay Charlton compensation.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Just seen this:

    Mike Ashley has just bought House of Fraser for £90m. The department store will go straight into Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle squad for tomorrow’s game against Spurs
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    Spoke to a spud at work about saving money on new kit, leave the name on back blank and say its the new signing
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    Love the way all the spurs fans are saying they did n't need to sign anyone as they could not get anyone who would improve their team and that as their players are young they will all be better this season. You would have thought they had won the league last year maybe they are confusing themselves with Man City :smiley:
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I think Liverpool have been handed 2nd spot this season with both Spurs and United having had such a poor transfer window.
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2018/august/10-august/sam-byram-joins-nottingham-forest-loan
  • McHammerMcHammer
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  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Fernandes loan to Fiorentina confirmed.

    Toni Martinez season long loan at Rayo Majadahonda (Spanish 2nd Div)

    Majadahonda is in the north west suburbs of Madrid, a Spanish version of Watford.
  • McHammerMcHammer
    Sky round up. No more to go so Oxford likely to stay.
    Yaya a No no
    Ballotelli linked with Jan move for 8.75 mill
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Majadahonda, isn't that a Japanese car and motorcycle factory in Spain? ;yercoat
  • LukerzLukerz
    Yaya Toure passes a medical for London club, according to his agent. ;hmm
  • sweepy23sweepy23
    Fulham?
  • HammerdublinHammerdublin
    Leyton Orient?
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Barnet.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Looks like it's Arsenal he's joining. ;hmm
  • alderzalderz
    Lukerz said:

    Looks like it's Arsenal he's joining. ;hmm

    ;hmm
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Well, his medical was in London. The tweet from his agent doesn't actually say 'a London club' ;hmm
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    edited August 2018
    Burnley or Everton then!
  • yoyoyoyo
    edited August 2018
    Anyone fancy him on a " pay per appearance " free transfer?
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Not for me, yoyo.

    He's probably still capable of being as good as anyone we have in the middle of the park, but he comes with too much baggage, and would be short term.

    Best avoided, imo.

    (Pelle said a while ago he wasn't considering him.)
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Agent then tweets It's not West Ham, 100%.
    Yaya is a champion. The last place is not for him
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    He's having a laugh
    It's not Crystal Palace, 100%.
    Roy Hodgson said he doesn't know when his players' birthdays are (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/379906/Player-s-birthdays-I-don-t-care-Roy-Hodgson-wades-into-Man-City-ace-Yaya-Toure-saga …)
    Can Yaya go there?
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    MrsGrey said:

    Agent then tweets It's not West Ham, 100%.
    Yaya is a champion. The last place is not for him

    So its not Spurs then :smile:
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