Summer Transfer Speculation (its just two months away)

chicagohammer

I do not know anyone who is happy with the potential signing of Wilson, the optics and messaging is all wrong imo

He would be a decent option for a recently relegated side looking to get back up but not one for a team supposedly looking to build a force capable of challenging for higher office within the top division

Barney

I am happy for the sole reason that we do not have the money to get ayoung striker if we are to fill the other positions. We need some choices up front for next season and he may be the best we can get

ASLEFshrugged

Maybe Callum Wilson is a one season stop gap to cover Fullkrug in case he gets injured while we give Callum Marshall time to.develop or to bring in another striker next summer

A long term plan rather than looking at just this season

EXETERHAMMER

I wonder what he wull cost us. Performance related pay could mean anything. I can't see him wanting to sign unless he feels he is in pocket.

I am guessing he is on a wage with bonuses.

I would rather we play Marshall or Cummings if Fullkrug gets injured.

thornburyiron

Cummings isn’t even featuring for the dev squad.

EXETERHAMMER

I would still prefer Cummings

alderz

I’m hopeful that Marshall will be a good player for us, but to have him as our only striker alternative feels like a risk and a lot of pressure on a youngster. The guy has potential, but he only scored 9 goals in League One last year.

I don’t want Callum Wilson, but I would like us to have at least one other striker option, just in case. If Wilson’s that guy then I’ll be underwhelmed, but so be it.

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Barney said:

I am happy for the sole reason that we do not have the money to get ayoung striker if we are to fill the other positions. We need some choices up front for next season and he may be the best we can get

And there in lies the divide

He didnt have the season we just had to sign Wilson, not even 2 steps back but prepares for Relegation, that's the calibre callum wilson brings

ASLEFshrugged

EXETERHAMMER said:

I would still prefer Cummings

Apart from 11 minutes in a meaningless Champions League Group stage match where he touched the ball twice and completed one out of two passes Cummings has never played above the Scottish equivalent of the Conference

Think he might need a couple of years with the U21s

EXETERHAMMER

👍
But I would still prefer Cummings

ASLEFshrugged

ASLEFshrugged

Here's a bolt from the blue - or to be more accurate from Birmingham

Ex, Hammers Chat and C&H reckon we're after Villa's Jacob Ramsey

Seems Villa have their own PSR problems and even sold the women's team to it's own holding company in a bit of creative accountancy

steve

Everton sold there woman's team as well .How come we can't sell anything

alderz

steve said:

Everton sold there woman's team as well .How come we can't sell anything

Less than three weeks ago we sold an asset for over £50m

steve

Oh right ,What was that again

Fortuneseeker

@alderz, But that was still below market value!

MunichHammer

Fortuneseeker said:

@alderz, But that was still below market value!

Market value is what the market pays for something, not what we decide we should be paid. Had we kept hold of him, his value might have gone down amd we could easily have had an unmotivated player on our books.
Just remember how Defoe worked out.

Fortuneseeker

Still reckon we got less than we should have for Kudus but that is the West Ham way.

MunichHammer

I would have liked more, too, bjt after the season he has had there just weren't any other clubs who were interested.

alderz

I think the real West Ham way is just being miserable about everything that the club does on and off the pitch

Fortuneseeker

IF that is the case alderz the club needs to make greater efforts to do things to cheer us up 😉.

steve

Like signing Callum Wilson