The summer transfer window 2019 thread

[westhamshares]

The lack of news in the last 3 or 4 hours can mean 1 of 2 things:

1) the deals done and they're currently editing the video
2) hes back on a plane to either Italy or Dortmund

The suspense is too much :shock:

Saw a tweet from some1 who does seem to be ITK when something has happened but not yet been officially announced

[Patito]

What's the odds he completes it and then does a runner? :lol:

You seem pretty desperate for this to fail, Tommy!

[daveo]

I expect Haller would start, but Hernandez has been plenty effective.
He was our 3rd leading scorer last season with far less playing time than the 2 ahead of him
He was our 2nd leading scorer the previous season again with far less playing time than the man ahead of him.

Hernandez has not been a perfect fit given our struggles in possession and tendancy to have to resort to lumping it up front, but he's still been quite effective when he plays.

Dumping him for no reason when we're finally starting to build a possession based side seems weird.

I expect Haller to go into the starting XI, with Chicha as cover and occasionally playing 2 up top against certain opponents.

He's still a decent finisher but has no pace, strength or height and doesn't contribute a great deal to the team other than a fairly paltry number of goals. I'm not saying he's awful by any means but he's certainly nowhere near good enough to justify £140K a week IMO

Those wages could be much better spent on a replacement in my view

[griff123]

Didn't we once do a medical on some Danish chap who ended up somewhere else

Gudjonsson did it i believe

[paulhs1]

Unless he goes 4-4-2.

He's mad enough to do it. You know he is.

Have you seen the attacking midfielders and wingers we now have....Wilshere, Fornals, Nobes, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Anderson, Antonio...and you think pellers will go and squeeze in Hernandez

[Ding]

Competition is important. Hernandez ain’t no proper lcompetition to Haller, not least because they are polar opposites in playing style. Once Haller is confirmed, they will work on selling Hernandez and getting another striker or two in. Someone big and strong, similar to Haller.

Iglesias?
Marega?
Dzeko?

[Puff Daddy]

Ex saying hes doing the medical as we speak so I expect he'll be announced in the next few hours after double checking that he definitely has 2 legs and all of his toes.

… and do we still have that spare pair of Sullivan's trousers to hang up in the window of the examination room to cut out the daylight ?

[paulhs1]

Competition is important. Hernandez ain’t no proper lcompetition to Haller, not least because they are polar opposites in playing style. Once Haller is confirmed, they will work on selling Hernandez and getting another striker or two in. Someone big and strong, similar to Haller.

Iglesias?
Marega?
Dzeko?

[Toulouse_Iron]

Surely we'd know by now if he was in the UK?

Where's Josh's Mrs when you need her?

[Hammersfaniow]

Hernandez is worth £10m now has 1 year on hes contract and Carries a £140k a week salary.

He will be playing second fiddle to our new striker and will at best get around 5-10 starts and mainly be used as a sub.

It is a total and utter no brainer to move him on now.

So if we’re rating him about £10m, and roughly £6m on wages, I seriously doubt we could get anyone for £16m (fee and wages for the year) that would be as good as him in terms of being an out and out natural striker

[Burnley Hammer]

I reckon there's still a big name loan to come in yet (or a free on massive wages)

Also wouldn't be surprised to see a fellow Chilean come in at some point. We've been linked with 3 of them now.

[Boleyn_Hammer]

Ex is now backtracking slightly :lol:

This is his response to someone stating that they will not believe it until he puts pen to paper...

‘Agree I think his “agent” is seeing who else will come in for him so who knows but club still very confident’

[Aceface]

Not sure that's backtracking as such – a medical doesn't guarantee he's ultimately going to sign.

[Shy Ted]

My mates ex girlfriends mother who is a nurse, has just sent a text, and she says Haller is having his prostate checked as we speak.

[BLT]

Didn't we once do a medical on some Danish chap who ended up somewhere else

Miralem Sulejmani -

"On 11 August 2010, West Ham United confirmed that they had agreed terms with Ajax and Sulejmani to take him on a year-long loan subject to the granting of a work permit,[8][9] which was denied the following day.[10] "

[TommyHammer]

You seem pretty desperate for this to fail, Tommy!

The complete opposite mate, which is why i'm expecting the worst!

[Rockhampton Hammer]

My mates ex girlfriends mother who is a nurse, has just sent a text, and she says Haller is having his prostate checked as we speak.

I won't believe it until we see webcam footage and the Daves giving him a welcome to West Ham dildo.

[Codu]

Didn't we once do a medical on some Danish chap who ended up somewhere else

Miralem Sulejmani -

"On 11 August 2010, West Ham United confirmed that they had agreed terms with Ajax and Sulejmani to take him on a year-long loan subject to the granting of a work permit,[8][9] which was denied the following day.[10] "

I was thinking of that CB who ended up choosing Wigan(?) over us, I think he scored a decent goal against us from a corner too.

(This could all be in my head)

[thejackhammer]

Ivan Ramis.

[thejackhammer]

We're waiting on Hendrick to finish his medical so we can make a double signing announcement.