West Ham Rumours

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15 Jun 2025 10:37:25
BROWNHILL, whilst WH dither around , Ipswich now in the championship, have offered the player a bigger wage And signing on fee, than WH ! and so have another club ( possibly Everton? ) Contrary to West Ham news, and with great suprise, there is no firm agreement with this player, and WH will need to step it up , if they want this player? otherwise he will be another to be marked with an X

15 Jun 2025 12:17:11
The story of the window i'm afraid. Fast approaching is going to be one of the most competitive premier leagues in years and we dither

I must admit I'm losing all confidence in this board. There is always some excuse.

I hear celtic want Irvine? Why then don't we give them Irvine and some cash for Maeda?

Why are our board not thinking along those lines? Chelsea know we want some of their players so why do we ponder and mess about. Pre window everything sounded so hopeful and yes, it's just the start, but, this is already sounding like every other window

13 Jun 2025 16:28:48
One of the WH ITKs, just got it right, naming 5 player rejections, in fact there's been 9 so far, should we be suprised not at all, there's however a partial answer, couple of months back Chelsea gave WH the list of 14 players no longer needed, now there's 15, it's simple swap 2 plus bit of cash for Kudus, take one on loan with an option, with the bit of cash, make down payment on Cf Fofana 4 players in, when Paqueta goes get Chuckwemeka, so Petrovic, Challobah Fofana Dewsbury hall, Chelsea are desperate to unload people, we are desperate for players there's 5 there, add the half dozen we want to keep, all of a sudden we have a team, it may sound odd but is it, these are proven players, some of the names now being shuffled around for a bid, are just not good enough full stop, every WH fan should be concerned, at the levels of some players now being looked at

13 Jun 2025 17:21:45
Joyfull, I have no idea why you expect anything different, we are always last to the party every year but manage to sign players. It is mostly speculation in the media that we lost out on this player and missed out on that one. We will sign players, maybe not the ones you or the media want or speculate about but we have ages until the window slams shut. I am also disturbed by the lack of signings, but willing to keep the faith and judge Sully and Potter in a few weeks time and review the situation then.

13 Jun 2025 17:59:52
Gerry, rejections are not speculation sorry mate! WH had an original list of people, majority of those now for differing reasons have an X on them , In the position WH finished the season, it was obvious that urgent action would be needed, in consideration of the volume of players leaving, it’s a lot of work to install that many replacements, just the opposite has happened, quiet, relaxed, no sense of urgency whatever, yes of course you can buy any odd players to fill the ranks, it can all change next week of course, but I’m not as enthused as you may be, from what has been seen so far, also as already stated level of some targets, may not be good enough, WH need to start restoring, evaporating, confidence

13 Jun 2025 21:37:43
With 8 teams qualifying for Europe it was always going to be hard to attract players. Add that to who the manager is and Sullivan what have we got to offer? All we can offer is playing in front of a massive crowd who create no atmosphere whatsoever, and before you blame the ground it is the football that’s served up, anyone who witnessed the atmosphere against Sevilla will tell you the ground was rocking. The football and too many tourists is why the place is like a morgue. Not sure how we change it without exciting football and getting rid of the tourists. Friend of mine is a season ticket holder at the spuds and he said their place was like a morgue when they were losing every week.

13 Jun 2025 22:20:42
Totally right Gerry, it is always the brand of football that creates the atmosphere.
The LS is not a good football stadium, The Bowlyn ground being smaller and a tighter more intimidating stmosphere. The last season at Upton Park was great, the football, the atmosphere, everything. But I can remember going to watch many a game when we were managed by Avram Grant and Big Fat Sam where the atmosphere was dreadful and it was the simple correlation the brand of football and level of excitement or enjoyment it created which was zero and the atmosphere matched it.

13 Jun 2025 22:21:10
That’s it Gerry WH are finding it hard , To attract better players, so they are looking at some that are seeming to play at a lower level, therein lies a danger coupled with nothing to offer, many players are not attracted. To this manager, that’s were we are, let’s hope it turns upwards

12 Jun 2025 16:47:31
Sancho deal dead? Maybe not completely? Sancho for personal reasons would prefer a London move, he's into last year of contract, Man Utd want to get him gone, let's be fair, he would be a starter, and would probably shine at WH, and that's the WH thinking, whatever happens Paqueta, going to be gone soon one way or another so they have 150 k a week to pay him, Man Utd, may want to give him the balance (3m ), to level his wages ? (220 k a week ) for the last year, Like they did for our popular right back, He's 25, , so kudus 50 m Sancho 20m?, Sancho plus 30 m it's tempting if both clubs could agree? It's unlikely, just depends if anybody is serious about Kudus?

12 Jun 2025 09:02:39
BY DEFAULT, was the only way Jonathan David was ever coming to WH, that is if every other club in Europe stepped away, I always stated, What on earth, would he ever want to go to WH, In the last 3 days, Napoli, Juventus and Inter, have all walked away stating his demands, are verging on the ridiculous, even PSG RMA and Athletico agree, now we are down to 3 clubs Newcastle, Villa and WH, , the smallest offer is from WH, so still very unlikely, as the player has had two offers now from Saudi, Al Nassr £375 k a week! Al Hilal have topped that at £400 k a week! So we will soon find out, is it football he wants, or the money!

12 Jun 2025 12:17:57
Thanks for the update Joyfull. I think if he only comes to us because he has no other option then it would be a poor signing, his heart won’t be in it.

On another matter I have it on good authority from a Sheffield Utd fan that their keeper, Michael Cooper, is being considered by a number of PL suitors. He says he is far better than Championship level. Are we one of the suitors? We should be all over this, he’s only 26

12 Jun 2025 15:38:19
Anything’s possible? Also bear in mind Cooper is a Salthouse client, which is in his favour

11 Jun 2025 19:11:13
Chelsea have today lowered the price to WH for Axel Disasi, if they are, interested, price not known?

12 Jun 2025 22:04:31
I expect I’m not the only one never to have heard of Disasi.

13 Jun 2025 16:45:02
Cb And Rb Chelsea, Potter likes him, he was on loan at Villa last season, he’s big and very strong, wouldn’t be my choice, but it might be Potters!