Summer Transfer Window 2017

[Ozza]

Despite the fact the bloke is on £200k per week and wants more, despite the fact he's one of the best strikers in Europe if not the world, despite him wanting to win things, why the f*** would he come here!!!

Absolutely ridiculous!!

[S-H]

Costa wouldn't tolerate being a make shift RB, I can tell you that for nothing.

[fjthegrey]

AC Milan will buy him.

[Ben]

I swear some of you lot are on serious class A drugs - Costa :lol:

innit, the main striker from the league winners!

far more likely to be signing mid table back up strikers or lower down strikers such as Negredo or Llorente

[bubbles500]

Harsh... Byram showed a bit of promise towards the end of the season and will no doubt learn a truck load from Zabaleta.

Walker is already making noises about moving on so Trippier will no doubt take over from him soon and the young lad will be his back up. I would assume they would prefer to sell Walker for decent money thanwould sell Trippier.[/quote]

Spurs put £60m price tag on walker now .cant see city paying that .be interesting to see what happens there .they defo can't keep 3 RB .

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

far more likely to be signing mid table back up strikers or lower down strikers such as Negredo or Llorente

Only the 4th time you've said that.

We'll sign a midtable striker only like Negredo and Llorente. Look I'm Ben. kumb ben idiot.

[psychoscoredthelot]

Harsh... Byram showed a bit of promise towards the end of the season and will no doubt learn a truck load from Zabaleta.

Walker is already making noises about moving on so Trippier will no doubt take over from him soon and the young lad will be his back up. I would assume they would prefer to sell Walker for decent money thanwould sell Trippier.

Spurs put £60m price tag on walker now .cant see city pa

ying that .be interesting to see what happens there .they defo can't keep 3 RB .[/quote]

why not................... they already have them dont they ?

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Ben, remember that bit on the West Ham forum when I mugged you off?

[YorksHammer]

What are those issues?

I would assume that it's to do with not having enough international appearances over the past two years (as he's only young) and as such we need to pay a cost to get him into a certain points bracket.

Nigeria are currently 38th in the world, so to qualify for a permit outright he'd need to have played 75% or more of their games over the last year (being under 21) which he's definitely not done - only one cap to date.

With that in mind, it comes down to him meeting the points criteria for a work permit (four points or more) and being passed off as a hot prospect for the future as well which will play into his being granted one a bit. Because he's not in a 'top league' and Eupen haven't been in Europe, he already misses out on two points - he therefore needs to hit four points out of the following:

3 points - value of transfer is in the top 25% of all Premier League transfers in the previous two windows
2 points - value of transfer is between the top 25% and 50% of all PL transfer in the previous two windows
3 points - wages paid to the player are in the top 25% of the top 30 earners at the club
2 points - wages paid to the player are between the top 25% and 50% of the top 30 earners at the club.

I'd imagine his wages would at least meet the 2 points boundary, so presume (if, indeed, the work permit point on transfer fee was correct) the £7.85m fee is needed to meet the 2 points (or maybe 3 points, but unlikely that it's in the top 25% of all fees over the last couple of windows) criteria there and give a total of four points.

I must admit that I'm largely guessing in the above, but it kind of all lines up in terms of this quote from the HITC article (which could well be BS, I guess):

West Ham are said to be one of seven Premier League clubs, including Arsenal and Swansea City, in talks to sign Onyekuru, who has lit up Belgium's top flight with 22 goals and nine assists in what is his first ever season at that level.

And it is claimed that the player will fly to England on Monday for discussions with interested parties.

Earlier this week, the Mirror reported that Arsenal had agreed a £6.8 million deal with Eupen, only to be told they would need to increase their offer to £7.85 million in order to comply with work permit regulations.

There is actually an exemption from the points system for anybody signed for £10m+.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Fast, semi-skillful player with limited composure, a questionable end product and a name plucked out of a scrabble bag?

Sure, has everything required to be a consistent performer for West Ham.

[Ozza]

Fast, semi-skillful player with limited composure, a questionable end product and a name plucked out of a scrabble bag?

Sure, has everything required to be a consistent performer for West Ham.

They've got it get it right at some point law of averages says so

[Patito]

24 goals and 9 assists from the wing. I'd say that suggests a decent end product. Must have half decent composure to score that many too. You're right though he's fast.

[YorksHammer]

Fast, semi-skillful player with limited composure, a questionable end product and a name plucked out of a scrabble bag?

Sure, has everything required to be a consistent performer for West Ham.

Antonio could easily have fit into that description when we signed him.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

24 goals and 9 assists from the wing. I'd say that suggests a decent end product. Must have half decent composure to score that many too. You're right though he's fast.

I've seen him play a number of times to know that those figures paint him in a more favourable light.

[DDHammer]

We wouldn't even need to bother with Onyekuru if we'd just stuck a buy back clause in Matt Jarvis' contract. Short sighted.

[hammerman11]

if arsenal dont want him he should be ours. we should be more of a draw than swansea.

perhaps we can entice swansea with snodgrass and valencia plus 10m for sigurdsson ?

3 in a week in would be great

[claretandblue82]

Well I for one am looking forward to Crouch & Costa upfront to us next season! Get it done Dave!

[DDHammer]

The worlds first double player + cash deal player exchange.

[Jumby]

-----Leadbitter---Cattermole
Sidwell--Snodgrass-Albrighton
-------------Crouch------------

Quite like the look of that.

If we ever lined up with that as our front six I'd cry :lol:

[Patito]

I've seen him play a number of times to know that those figures paint him in a more favourable light.

Better get on the blower to Slav and the scouting team then mate.