West Ham signings

[CaptainCourageous]

Pablo Fornals for £24m.

Bid accepted (£29m) for Celta Vigo's Maxi Gomez.

In talks to sign Joan Jordan from Eibar for £13m.

Lorient's Alexis Claude-Maurice also in talks for £18m.

Favourites to sign Morgan Sanson from Marseille for £20m plus.

Also want to tie up the signing of Nathaniel Clyne and have had a couple of bids for Andre Gomes rejected (supposedly favours Everton on a permenant deal).

Not holding back this window. Manchester United linked with Issu Diop for £45m + which would allow West Ham to make further moves in the transfer market.

 

[Cuellar]

Fornals is a great signing

 

[Zander73]

A different world from ours. Small clubs badly run with to much money.

 

[Gerrard55]

Makes ye sick

 

[TQ3]

I like Pellegrini, a great coach. He knows how to build a side, so let him clear out the dead wood, and start to get his own team together.
West Ham will benefit from the stability Pellegrini gives them, instead of chopping and changing coaches every season. They are a big club, but often badly run by looking short term.

 

[Echo_1]

Mental to think they spend 50x what we spend yet we'd still give them a right good go in a one off game.

Crazy money.

 

[The Lone Sniper]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

 

[Boab4]

Up the irons

 

[Tpol_rfc]

The transfer fees literally have no correlation to how good a player will/can be.

 

[Sam English]

With all the cash the Hammers are spending, they'll still not finish in the top 6

 

[prenzlauerbear]

They could sign Messi and he'd be shite for them.

Just one of those crap, middling clubs that have an inherent losers mentality. See also Sunderland.

 

[Supermac1872]

That should keep them out the relegation zone.

 

[Echo_1]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

Would be a good signing for them. Nearly 32 years old though, could be their Graham Dorrans.

 

[ICA_86]

Man Utd after their centre back Diop, very promising player.

 

[The Lone Sniper]

Would be a good signing for them. Nearly 32 years old though, could be their Graham Dorrans.

Yep - I'd rather he didn't join them.

 

[Jelle1880]

I like Pellegrini, a great coach. He knows how to build a side, so let him clear out the dead wood, and start to get his own team together.
West Ham will benefit from the stability Pellegrini gives them, instead of chopping and changing coaches every season. They are a big club, but often badly run by looking short term.

It's not just Pellegrini, they got Husillos as their director of football now and he's seemingly behind a lot of these transfers.

 

[Coplandbear]

Some good players they are targeting/trying to sign. I'll be honest most of there spending sprees over the last number of years have been poorly judged and they signed some right average/dross on big money but these are quality players and Pellegrini knows La Liga well maybe West Ham might be a decent team to watch next season although i still believe that new stadium is a severe problem.

 

[BSRBLUE]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

I’d be surprised if it happened this summer, I think he may have another year/6 months at West Ham before making the move. It’s no secret that he wants to finish his playing days with that lot!

 

[Diego Maradona]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

I don’t see that as being a big issue. He has no pace, so similar to Jamie Murphy in that respect.

 

[Portrushbear]

Some good business from them, Andre gomes is a fantastic player they will do well to keep a hold of him

 

[Jimmy the Gent]

Snodgrass would need to take a huge cut in wages to sign for them.

 

[ShotaShuffle]

I don’t see that as being a big issue. He has no pace, so similar to Jamie Murphy in that respect.

Jamie Murphy doesnt have pace?

 

[fivestarblue]

Seems more scattergun from them. It’s seems like the same plan every season.

 

[Coisty09]

Would not be surprised to see Snodgrass go back to Leeds for considerably more dosh than he would get at Bheast FC

 

[Sebo23]

Alexis Claude-Maurice apparently holding out for a move to Arsenal.

 

[govanite]

All end in tears with Sullivan and co Wonder what happened to the money from selling their ground.

 

[strider]

I don’t see that as being a big issue. He has no pace, so similar to Jamie Murphy in that respect.

Yeah, but like Murphy, he doesn't need much pace and would be miles ahead of most of the league.

 

[Square and compass]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

Well he is one,on 65k a week.
Dont think so.

 

[top_cat]

Alvin Martin loyal.

 

[Belvedre]

Snodgrass strongly linked with Bheast FC.

I rate him as a player but he wouldn't be worth the wages they would have to pay him

 

[Crouchy]

Always worry that’s too many young(ish) foreign lads in one go.

We’ll see.

 

[squaddie-bear]

I rate him as a player but he wouldn't be worth the wages they would have to pay him

Snodgrass going to the filth would be a bad thing.

I'm not saying they could get him, but he would have a similar impact as Commons did. He is that "too good for the championship but not good enough for the premiership" type of player that would rip it up in Scotland.

 

[KensingtonBlue]

They did the same thing last summer.

Didn’t really make a difference. West Ham are just a club destined to do absolutely nothing.

 

[KirkwallTrueBlue]

Must nearly be knocking on the FFP regulators front door.

 

[dynamo_rosco]

West Ham are a proper British club

 

[Crouchy]

Snodgrass going to the filth would be a bad thing.

I'm not saying they could get him, but he would have a similar impact as Commons did. He is that "too good for the championship but not good enough for the premiership" type of player that would rip it up in Scotland.

He’d score 15+ goals a season, easily.

 

[Leith Ger]

Good players they are attempting to sign but their squad is very unbalanced. They already have a lot of attaching players on big money that they’ll need to clear out, even although Carroll & Nasri are already gone.

 

[Arkanoid]

Big stadium with lots of ST cash, big English TV Money and owners who are happy to speculate to accumulate. Just think of the money and quality players Arsenal should be bringing in but dont

 

[Sebo23]

Big stadium with lots of ST cash, big English TV Money and owners who are happy to speculate to accumulate. Just think of the money and quality players Arsenal should be bringing in but dont

Arsenal have a 'short term' problem they need to remedy.

Basically, they have a Champions League wage bill but been a Europa League club the past couple of seasons. Their big wage bill is hampering what they can do in the market, they need to clear out the big earners offering little return.

 

[50p Flute]

The transfer fees literally have no correlation to how good a player will/can be.

Of course they have correlation, it might not always be accurate but there is correlation.

 

[colinglasgow]

West Ham are a proper British club

Correct!
WATP COYI

 

[Tugay83]

Mental to think they spend 50x what we spend yet we'd still give them a right good go in a one off game.

Crazy money.

We wouldn't.

 

[Echo_1]

We wouldn't.

Yes we would, it would be a close game.

They certainly wouldn't be anywhere near 50x better than us despite spending that much more, i can guarantee you that.

 

[Echo_1]

We wouldn't.

Actually i'm pretty sure we just drew twice in a row with the team that £24million worth Pablo Fornals played for, Villareal, who just signed for Wets Ham. He even said himself "there's not much between Rangers and Villareal", despite the huge difference in transfer outlays and wages. They are operating on roughly West Ham level when you look at the players and the money spent.

Over the course of a season I'd expect Villareal and West Ham to be much better than us, for sure, but they definitely would be in for a match in a one off vs us.

 

[Diego Maradona]

Jamie Murphy doesnt have pace?

If that’s not rhetorical, no