Wasn't expecting him to be quite as good as he ended up. Glad he got his move, best thing for everyone. Hard to not be tempted by a triple your salary offer for half the work and in reality he owes us nothing and has no real affinity with the club. Wish him well. Life is too short for grudges. We k...

Belotti is exactly the kind of striker we should be going for. A few years ago, when we didn’t quite have the squad we have now, we had Sakho, who held the ball up and ran in behind well. He did a good job for us during that time and did exactly what we needed him to, but after a while we needed an ...

This one might be a “terrible deal”, but we’ve had some pretty good deals over the last few seasons, so they can’t really complain!

YorksHammer wrote:Just read he's a vegan and rides a Vespa to training

F*cking hippie. No thanks!

hammerman11 on fire this morning.

@ HammerAl Based on those stats it’s a very big yes from me. It’s likely we will not have a single striker from last season at the club next season so will need to sign at least 3 strikers. One of those is going to have to be relatively cheap, Rodrigues fits the bill nicely. :thup: Out: Hernandez, ...

Jay Rodriguez isn't anywhere near Chicharito, he's the player you get for the yoyo, he scored less goals in far more minutes than Chicha over their last 2 top flight seasons. He's a Championship star, and a lesser bench striker at this level. That’s what we’d be looking for to replace Hernandez tho...

He’s played 123 games over the last three seasons, so injury problems seem to be behind him. 30 later on this month, so isn’t young, but isn’t exactly old either, and scored 22 last season. Would add to the homegrown quota and would give us a different option going forward. Hernandez obviously has t...

Apparently Jay Rodriguez has a £5m release clause. I think he’s be a very good option for us from the bench and can also play out wide too. Cheap, English and experienced at this level.

Arnie doesn’t want to hand in a transfer request to move.

The board won’t sanction a move without the transfer request.

Both parties want him moved on but both will play hard ball.

This will get messy I’m sure!

I always thought Ayoze Perez was pretty crud. £30m is crazy.

Arnie wants to leave, but won’t want to hand in a transfer request and give up his loyalty / bonus payments. The board will want Arnie to hand in a transfer request so they don’t have to pay out loyalty / bonus payments. Arnie’s brother will continue to publicly spout rubbish (as he has done to Sky ...

It’s just a job for most of them, remember reading an interview with Bobby Z and that’s exactly how he saw it. Yeah 100%. There are many, many players out there who don’t enjoy playing football one bit, but they do it because they’re are good at it and it just so happens they get paid good money in...

Football is just a job for Arnie, so if he can get more money elsewhere then fair play to him, I don’t have a problem with that. He’s not a West Ham fan, nor will he ever probably feel at home in London or Essex. Football is also so media-orientated these days; the club would have instigated his “st...

Rondon isn’t better than Arnie, but if we could sell Arnie for £25m, bring in Rondon for £15m and have £10m plus a decent chunk of wages to throw at Sanson then I wouldn’t mind.

Pob! wrote:If Danny Ings is worth 20m then Marko must be worth 35m

Arnie a far superior player but Ings is English, 4 years younger, coming from a bigger club and didn’t hand in a transfer request.

As soon as a transfer request goes in, the asking price takes a hit.

Sell for £25-30m. Thanks for the memories, Marko.

Time to move on.

Brahimi in talks with Arsenal...

Matt Targett for £15m is ridiculous!

Aaron Ramsey is going to have a great time at Juve, competing with all of Pjanic, Khedira, Matuidi, Bentancur, Rabiot, Can and possibly Pogba for the same position!

Maripan, Sanson & Rondon for £50m
Rather than
Gomez for £45m
Would give the squad real power and balance