15 Jun 2019 17:14:22
So Man Utd want Diop and are willing to pay £45m plus a player, question is which player?

{Ed004's Note - Youll know better than me. How good is he? Or whats his potential like. You can have any of our back line except De Gea, Lindelof and Shaw}


1.) 15 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019 17:28:07
No thanks, 04. We’ll keep him for now.

{Ed004's Note - I don't see him leaving West Ham this summer tbh. Hes about the 60th player we have been linked with so far}


2.) 15 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019 20:51:35
It is the season for silliness ed :)


3.) 18 Jun 2019
17 Jun 2019 23:49:32
If Utd are set on signing him, they'll get him imo.

It's all a bit of a Rio Ferdinand flashback moment to be honest. Leeds wanted him and came up with a then record amount to sign him and *poof* he was gone.

We hasn't changed as a club that much in the last 19 years I'm afraid, so we'll always be vulnerable to losing our best young players to bigger teams, Issa Diop and Declan Rice are no exceptions - although I think Rice will stay for a couple more years at least, not sure Diop's got the same kind of connection with the club and may find it a bit easier to walk away - pure speculation on my part of course!

As for a swap? Nah it's alright thanks, I wouldn't want any of the Utd CB's but would be reasonably happy if £60M were to actually come our way for Diop. We could then move for someone like Maripan and have a large wedge left over to continue strengthening the squad.

Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather Diop stays as he'll develop in to a CB as good as anyone, anywhere in any league but at the end of the day. money talks.


4.) 18 Jun 2019
17 Jun 2019 23:36:58
I think the defender that we have asked for is ERIC BAILLY any thoughts ED. COYI.

{Ed004's Note - I am not sure what to think of Bailly anymore. Was brilliant in his first season and looked like he could go on to be a top cb. Really his only massive flaw was he was quite rash. However, hes been a disaster injury wise since and ridiculously inconsistent. His first game back vs Liverpool after a long injury he was immense and doing Zidane roulettes and then the next he was a disaster. There could be a potentially brilliant cb there but his mentality and reading of the game might restrict that. He is a phenomenal athlete. One of our quickest players. Dont think he will have been offered though. Would guess it was Rojo}