West Ham rumours 2

10 Mar 2024 11:59:45
Any truth in the rumour that .....................

{Ed002's Note - Very, very old news. Try and find something more recent.}

10 Mar 2024 13:39:34
Rumour breaking today about Moyes’s son appointed as scout at WHU. Breaking on Newsnow, West Ham Chat for the first time. I have not previously heard it, and neither had every WHU supporter I spoke to today. Where was this “old news” previously reported out of interest please?

{Ed002's Note - I have no idea where it was reported but Jr left the Wassermann agency two or three years ago to undertake some scouting activities for the club.

10 Mar 2024 13:42:23
Are you getting this rumour confused with the appointment of Tim Steidten’s brother to the scouting staff?

{Ed002's Note - I am not confused about anything.}

13 Mar 2024 06:58:56
He's been at the club for months . It's the sun as usual trying to stir things up at the club . Tevez olympic stadium bowyer signing they have form for it . Moyes is going 100% .

13 Mar 2024 11:40:17
Let's hope you are indeed right mate.

16 Mar 2024 14:50:13
In which case, I apologise to Ed002 as I was totally unaware of his appointment until it was reported recently on Newsnow and by Gonzo on Hammers Chat.

{Ed002's Note - Don’t worry.}

05 Mar 2024 16:56:23
Bonkers! WH made final contract offer to Johnson today equivalent to 35 k a week, 3 years, Johnson's said no thanks off as a free this summer, just 6 weeks ago Palace offered 5 m straight purchase No said WH, yet Ings is getting. 115 k a week, !, Johnson is no great shakes but very useful, Ings is no great shakes and useless, Johnson wants first team wages approx 48k a week, so we will buy two new full backs for 40 m and pay them 60k a week each, and let a useful player leave on a free, probably to Palace where he will get his money, to me don't make sense., he's a homegrown useful player , 25 players in a squad , no common sense here, Just plain silly to me

05 Mar 2024 19:30:28
It’s one of the many issues with Moyes. For me it’s not all simply about the ultra defensive formation he sets up as, it’s stuff like bringing our youngsters through. As poor as we have been and with a small squad he has hardly ever given any of the youngsters a chance. Probably fearing they make a mistake. Well sadly that’s the only way you learn. And even if that were the case so many of the established team have made mistakes or played poorly…….

If I was a youngster at West Ham with Moyes in charge I would be straight out of there, no question. To quote Jonny Rotten, ‘ Nooo Future, Nooo future………

07 Mar 2024 10:55:45
It seems that Arne Slot’s name has been raised again as the next WHU coach. He has a reputation as a formidable attacking coach who promotes young players. Who knows?

08 Mar 2024 14:15:21
Seems Tim Steidten really like Fonseca

10 Mar 2024 01:44:14
Be great tinny but SLOT turned down the SPUDS apparently.⚒⚒⚒

21 Feb 2024 09:54:30
Apparently Liverpool have turned their attention to Florent Ghisoff the sporting director of Nice, for that job at LIverpool does that translate as Steidten staying at WH, looks that way? Just thought I'd mention it

21 Feb 2024 11:19:11
And Bayern are parting ways with Thomas Tuchel at the end of the season. Things could be falling into place. If so, I sincerely hope this doesn’t mean Tuchel has been identified as Moyes’ replacement. Tuchel caused problems at Chelsea and now at Bayern. Somehow, I can’t see him fitting in at the London Stadium under Sullivan. Don’t get me wrong, I want Steidten to stay, and Moyes to go, but there are more suitable coaches out there for WHU. I hope I’ve misread the runes!

21 Feb 2024 17:42:22
I was thinking exactly the same thing Tinny when I saw that another dinosaur

21 Feb 2024 18:40:15
Just need Kretinsky to buy a controlling stake and give power to Stiedten. Sulli hasn't a clue probably never kicked a football in his life

21 Feb 2024 19:17:55
One can dream

21 Feb 2024 20:13:24
Apparently, it’s Brady who is getting in Sullivan’s ear to keep Moyes and prevent Steidten from doing his job. Kretinsky wants Moyes gone and Steidten to hire a coach to replace him. Brady knows as much about football as I know about the air spedd velocitt of a swallow. FA.

21 Feb 2024 22:37:45
African or European?

22 Feb 2024 13:23:41
With Dan Ashworth going to Man u, Newcastle will be looking for a new director of football. Wouldn't be surprised if they looked at stiedten

22 Feb 2024 15:30:00
If the latest rumours are to be believed, Steidten is really pissed off with the way things are at WHU. Apparently, the terms he agreed when hired have now been altered by Sullivan who is weak and listening too much to Karen Brady and others who have their own agendas. Don't be fooled by the hiring of Max Hahn and Steidten's brother. They too can just as easily leave a sinking ship and go with Tim as a package. It will be unforgivable if we lose Tim Steidten through Sullivan's stupidity and the influence of Brady, who has as much interest in football and WHU fans as Liberace had in coal mining. For this club to survive and move up a gear, Moyes must go, Brady must shut up and Sullivan must sell his controlling interest.

10 Mar 2024 01:53:18
If we feck up the best thing to happen at west ham in years for a DINOSAUR like MOYES then I'm sorry then SULLY and co ain't great business people, then flip it they are as MOYES is going to keep you in the premiership but if and it's a big if he stays which imo he will walk at the end of the season and we only have to have a terrible start to a season under him then he imo isn't the type of manager in the way he sets up and his lack of attacking football, when you need 3 points rather than a point here and there to get you creeping up the table imo we could be bang in trouble but that's a guessing game and it could happen either ways.⚒⚒⚒

09 Feb 2024 20:10:12
Any truth in the rumours Tim Steidten could leave in the summer if moyes is still in charge? If so, I reckon that could be why the board may be looking at a replacement for moyes, never mind this rubbish about fans being unhappy with quality of football. Moyes has done well, but, with this squad would another decent manager have done as good, if not better? I suspect they might!

{Ed002's Note - Tim Steidten (DoF) Has a working relationship with Alonso who is most likely to join Liverpool in the summer as the new coach and I am sure Steidten would be interested in the Director of Football role at Liverpool if offered. Liverpool did have him as an option last summer but apponted Jorg Schmadtke. However, working previously with Alonso is not a good reason to make an appointment and he would be down the list of options for Liverpool. It is understood that his struggles with David Moyes are very much based on how Moyes utilises the players he has rather than over specific transfers. I would expect West Ham to move Moyes on before letting Steidten depart.}

10 Feb 2024 15:21:45
???????? One would hope so.

10 Feb 2024 19:01:01
Think we'll definitely be needing Steiden here to weave his magic in the summer.

With the best will in the world, I just don't believe we'll be qualifying for European football next season. It's just too big an ask with the squad that Moyes has whittled us down to.

Without European football, how are we realistically going to be able to keep the likes of Paqueta, Kudus, Bowen, Alvarez and maybe even Emerson and Areola when the silly money bids start coming in and Sully's eyes go $$kerchinngg$$?

I literally shudder to think how the starting XI would look at the start of the 2024/25 season, should we be Steiden-less and Moyes is left to his own devices.

10 Feb 2024 19:23:12
Fonseca maybe? But could they prize him from lille

13 Feb 2024 17:52:19
Billy i think the squad is good its the Manager who tells the players what type of football we play DM is the only manager that tells our player not to cross the half way line and to past the ball backwoulds
He destryed Benrahma. Big Sam didn't know what the WH way was and DM is too negative about attacking
Perhaps the 6.0 was what was needed to get rid of Moyes and judgeing by how many fans left at half time will now listen to what fans have been saying for a long time

14 Feb 2024 10:54:23
Sullivan won't sack Moyes as a new manager might come in and actually get us playing decent stuff that the players might like.

The cynic in me has a suspicion that there will be a fire sale this summer, asset stripping most of the value from the squad. We may be looking at the beginnings of certain people's endgames in regard to the club.

14 Feb 2024 11:01:46
I fear the latest statement from Tim Steidten is not good reading for WHU fans. Whilst stating he is "generally happy" at WHU, he says he has not heard from Liverpool regarding their interest in him. He also says "Let's see what happens at the end of the season". If this is not "I could be tempted away, so come on, make me an offer. I'm f*cked off with all this bullsh*tting around here over the manager, " then I am Bob Hope. Thank you, David Sullivan, for alienating the best thing that has happened to WHU for many years. Now why don't you just pack your suitcase with your ridiculous coats, jackets and hats, and f*ck off back under the rock from whence you came, and take that self-opinionated incompetent coach with you? You can play at being a general without doing any harm. ENOUGH!

15 Feb 2024 12:42:06
Rest assured if Moyes goes and Sullivan stays, it now transpires we could get Steve Cooper as Moyes’ replacement. This gets better and better. Who next? Roy ‘Mr Charisma’ Hodgson? Sam Allardyce even? The mind boggles.

16 Feb 2024 06:08:36
With Palace appointing Oliver Glasner as their new coach, that torpedoes the option of Moyes’ last opportunity to move to another Prem club. If Sullivan doesn’t grow a spine and sack Moyes, it looks like we might be stuck with him. I can’t see Moyes doing the decent thing now because he knows he wouldn’t get another big club appointment. He still believes he’s good enough for the Prem, and all those TV pundits who encourage him in this misguided belief, don’t help. So it’s over to you Mr Sullivan. God help us.

17 Feb 2024 11:26:50
SULLIVAN will opt for the cheapest option possible I guarantee it. Forget which manager can take us forward. I'd personally like Potter. His style of footie is easy on the eye, he would work well with Tim Steidten, believes in bringing youth through and he knows the Premier league, the managers and the tactics they deploy. Forget fonseca and gaultier

17 Feb 2024 17:27:52
I truly understand sustainability in a football club but don't come out with statements like the reason we are leaving the BOELYN to go to the London stadium was to increase numbers who came through the gates, therefore creating bigger turnover and then we can be challenging the top so called big four take that as what it deserves a load of bollocks all the change of stadium was to line SULLYS pockets I mean look at VILLA it wasnt working under GERRARD so they changed manager and brought in EMERY and look at the change in the football club but SULLY hasn't the minerals to do this and replace DD who has taken us as far as he's capable of.⚒⚒⚒

08 Feb 2024 19:39:49
It seems that WH don't want to get left behind other clubs come end of may, to that end, instead of just scouting , they are trying to do a deal or two in advance, it appears one of the targets is the Girona forward Bovbyk, if true he will be no cheap outing for sure, so many players will be required , end of contracts for some, moving on for others, Steidten. Will need to be on his game that is if he stays with WH

10 Feb 2024 12:04:17
Further to above post, although WH are well known to be chasing Tosin ( (Free agent in summer ) from Fulham, the player is being attracted by Liverpool, feelers have been put out to Kamada, currently at Lazio., to join WH as a free agent, in summer. Leaving behind an option to renew in Italy,

07 Feb 2024 10:49:28
As you all know by now Osman joining Brighton, who are obviously, still operating transfers better than WH , it also appears that my associate who said two bids went in for Gudmunsson was spot on, This is the rub, WH where offered a loan with Obligation to buy for the player 5m euro loan plus 21 m euro purchase in summer, , to concur with FPP rules it was left to Moyes to make the choice of one player between him and Phillips, you know what happened! A forward /striker was the priority so he chose another midfielder, just poor thinking in my personal opinion, WH had I think 22 goal attempts last Sunday, but it's been proven beyond any doubts, that defenders cannot regularly score goals, that's not their job and it makes you wonder what Moyes is thinking about .Gudmonsen although a basic attack mdf is a proven goal scorer, with a striker on the field last Sunday could have been a different outcome

07 Feb 2024 13:48:18
Sully bottled the Osman deal.

Disgraceful how we've lost this one to Brighton when he wanted to come here and all the recruitment team were agreed he was the main target at LW. Have a sneaking feeling that Moyes wasn't that bothered about this one though.

07 Feb 2024 16:25:25
Memory serves there was issues with agents etc BS! NOW apparently, moyes wants Bergwijn, Clarke and Gudmundsson? Yeah really! Moyes will go for Martial and Lingard, but, I now hear the board are having second thoughts about moyes and his contract! Make ya flippin mind up will ya for gods sake. Maybe if Pochettino gets sacked tonight they will target him lol wouldn't surprise me!

07 Feb 2024 18:50:26
The possibility comes to mind that Moyes may be offered a new contract as a head team coach NOT manager, with Steidten and his friend's and family obtaining and selling players, maybe without Moyes interference, wether Moyes will accept that situation should it occur, remains to be seen, if he stays he has only a small influence on transfers, if he leaves well thanks and bye bye, could this scenario happen maybe?

{Ed002's Note - No.}

08 Feb 2024 12:11:13
Several weeks back I suggested this. I think there’s a possibility the board will offer Moyes a contract which will include performance indicators and will take away his control over transfers, giving control to the technical director. This is becoming the norm in Europe and makes perfect sense from the perspective of the club. Moyes is an old fashioned football manager who insists on full control, so I don’t think he’ll ever accept those terms and he might even walk. Fingers crossed.

06 Feb 2024 17:23:10
Joy of joys, it seems moyes has made his mind up (only took 4 transfer windows) that the striker he wants is Albert Gudmunsson (isn't he an attacking midfielder)?

06 Feb 2024 22:02:39
Looks like he is officially an attacking midfielder but a quick look over the past few seasons shows him at LW, AMC, RW, CF and this season mostly a secondary striker. Does seem to score and assist quite regularly though, whichever position he's deployed in.

02 Feb 2024 10:19:48
My associate, who actually works in connection with WH , was right in predicting Ekitike to Eintracht, some weeks ago, , after WH broke some kind of agreement, he has alluded to our lack of purchases in window, being Moyes selections not viable as he's not wanted past end of contract, WH could have got Ismael Sarr over 2 weeks ago apparently it looks like, Moyes selections not wanted, and maybe Steidten has promised to stay on after summer, and the present limbo with blocking Benharama and Fornals and Cornet was put into place to stop the squad being too thin until summer, it's his version of events , or shall we say a possibility? I personally don't go along with this computer and / or paperwork failure .anyway it's another way at looking back at a ludicrous window

02 Feb 2024 13:17:29
But if we were never going to bring anybody in (and therefore not release any of our squad), why go through all the rigmarole of protracted negotiations?

02 Feb 2024 17:39:32
It's a joke run by comedians that are not interested in the club, just the money and limelight it brings

02 Feb 2024 21:19:20
You only have to look at the money
Rice was sold which covered our incomings ie ward prowse Alvarez etc also sold was shamacca and vlasic for approximately £25-35 million it’s been well known that we was close to our ffp wage limit for the club once we signed Phillips on £150 k a week wages we needed to cover those wages I don’t know but moving fornals kelrer n benrhama on is another lost window all on the back of DM pursuit of Phillips I just think could have strengthened the team in better areas

02 Feb 2024 21:25:50
I’m glad we didn’t get ismael sarr from what I’ve read seems to have an attitude problem this from his Watford days maybe one of the Ed’s could enlighten us .we basically put all our wages on Phillips hence no incomings I’m not saying he won’t improve the squad but I would have looked to strengthen elsewhere

03 Feb 2024 07:57:05
I have no doubt that Philips will improve as a player and will improve us. However, we didn’t need another CM, but it seems he’s brought him in and is making one or two of the CM’s to play right and left, now you and I can see this is just stupid…. so can someone please tel me how a “veteran” PM manger doesn’t see it. Fair enough he signed Philips, but everyone he signs he doesn’t play straight away he “beds them in” so play corner left, it’s not rocket science. But I agree we should have. Erm strengthening elsewhere.

02 Feb 2024 20:18:05
I reckon someone, somewhere realised at the very last minute what a complete and utter balls up has been made of this transfer window and tried to pull the plug on the Benny and Fornals deals.

Unfortunately for them FIFA has called the clubs bluff. Someone's head should roll for this, whether it'll be the actual perpetrator or a sacrificial lamb we'll have to wait and see.

If no action taken against anyone, then we can probably assume that the actions in this transfer window were deliberate from the outset, which really opens up a whole other can of worms about the directorship, management and running of this football club.

03 Feb 2024 15:26:41
Yep and even better news, west ham are about to offer moyes a contract extension.it just gets better.

26 Mar 2024 01:06:15
Kalvin is pants, i hope we don't keep him too!

01 Feb 2024 16:46:37
Benrahma to Lyon looks done as I've seen a pic of a Lyon fan taking a selfie with Benrahma who is wearing a Lyon tracksuit top ?

01 Feb 2024 17:18:49
I thought we were not letting players go unless we had a replacement?

01 Feb 2024 18:09:28
Armando Broja to Fulham, here we go! Agreement reached on loan until the end of the season for £4m fee to Chelsea.

Broja will complete medical tests tonight in order to sign later.

01 Feb 2024 18:39:20
Apparently we did approach Chelsea for broja but Fulhams offer was more appealing!

01 Feb 2024 20:05:15
I must be the only one that doesn't see anything in Broja that even remotely deserves all the hype he gets. That said, it's the sign of a really poor team when a poor player like him could come in and actually improve it.

02 Feb 2024 07:53:09
Benrahma must be thrilled to have been shafted by his current (and continuing) employers.

02 Feb 2024 13:46:40
Regarding Borja I agree with Billy. I think he is totally overrated. The other week Chelsea scored 5 or 6 goals in one match. He was playing as centre forward from the start of the match, and didn’t score one or even an assist.
I think he would also be a total Moyes type player and one small hope is that we didn’t go for him because hopefully at the end of the season we may be a Moyes-less zone ?

02 Feb 2024 14:17:58
I'm in agreement with what's been said about Broja. Totally overrated.
One can only hope that Moyes is for the chop at the end of the season, but why, oh why has Sullivan put the fans through a season of misery with the sh*t football and dashed transfer hopes, other than to save a few bob on compensation? It's an indication he couldn't give a toss about WHU. All he's interested in is his pocket. Moyes has to go, yes, but he's only part of the problem. The sooner Sullivan, and his brand of secondhand car dealership, goes, the better.

02 Feb 2024 21:52:01
I'm not so sure on BROJA I think there is goals in him tinny just my opinion but we desperately need a vocal point up front as I'm not convinced one iota that BOWEN is a striker he's an out and out winger for me and he was constantly having balls launched up around his neck and he just isn't that type of player although for his size he's very good in the air but he's no Number 9 that's for sure and silly bollocks DD having his head in his hands when a ball is played in the air to BOWEN and our opponents win the ball it's his proxy tactics and style of ball his killing us and it's all down to one clown DD.⚒⚒⚒

03 Feb 2024 04:45:07
I agree. Just not Broja.

26 Mar 2024 01:07:16
He's a witch . oops that's Bruja

01 Feb 2024 12:32:30
Benrahma and Cornet out perhaps today and loan for Broja? Get the feeling we have to shift a couple before we bring anyone in. Broja might let Ings go to Celtic. Huge domino-based window I think

01 Feb 2024 15:42:18
Palace have agreed terms over potential Maxwel Cornet loan but move still hinges on West Ham being able to sign a replacement.which is doubtful. Whispers of ismaila sarr on loan

01 Feb 2024 18:38:10
The left-side was supposed to be where we need strengthened and we are letting both Benrahma and Fornals go. Let's hope this mystery loan deal doesn't fall through, also gives moyes an excuse to keep pushing paqueta out on the left and keep soucek nd jwp centrally.

26 Mar 2024 01:08:13
Young Clarke of Sunderland is a promising left winger we could possibly get.