Our contact that we have who works in the offices of BT Sport which are located next to West Ham's in The QE Park, have told us that the flurry of media activity surrounding impending West Ham transfers has subsided in the last 24 hours and is now unlikely to resurface until the very closing stages of the transfer window, Tuesday the 31st of August at 11 PM. The Jim 'brown nose' White deadline day Sky TV show is probably when and if any pending transfers are likely to come to fruition, such is the lot of a 'last dibs' club like West Ham.

Liverpool's 26 year old Belgian striker Divock Origi may not have been on many people's radar as a possible front man for West Ham, two years ago he was valued around £18 Million but is now available for £10.5 Million, that is not so much a reflection of the player's quality, more that of the current 'depressed' market as a result of the Covid Pandemic.

Having qualified for the Europa League 'proper', Hammers will soon find out who they are likely to face in the group stages. There will definitely be some familiar faces when the games begin, but first several potential rivals have to 'duke'it out in order to reach the group stages.

Strangely enough, as a result of the changed rules for the new season and the establishment of the lower tier Conference Cup, teams that drop out of the Champions league qualifiers now have to play qualifiers to see if they can qualify, it that makes any sense.

Hammers fans are all too aware of how much money Eintrecht Frankfurt relieved the club of for the signing of 'le sulk' Sebastien Haller, however at the same time as relieving West Ham of £45 Million for one of their 'star' strikers, they also fleeced Real Madrid of even more, £50 Million for their other one, Luka Jovic!

Now it is not a good thing in life to wish ill of people, but in 'Tottingham" supremo Daniel Levy's case we can make an exception, after all his dog in a manger approach has seen him deliberately set about ruining West Ham United's prospects, mind you he needn't have bothered really, because the present owners are doing a fine job of it themselves!

Maybe David Moyes really is ramping up the pressure to sign his transfer targets, we have just received news from a GENUINE source that negotiations are at an advanced stage regarding Abdah Sima from the club's 'old friends' Slavia Prague. It seems as if the Irons are not content to have relieved Sparta of Tomas Soucek and Vlad the impaler Coufal, it is understood that Sima, who was the subject of interest early on in the window, has now moved back in to the reckoning as a result of Sparta reducing their valuation of the young winger come striker to a more realistic level.

Talk about synchronicity, just like London buses or police men, you wait ages for one and then three turn up at the same time!

Young children have a habit of ignoring what is really going on by replacing reality with fantasy. If they tell themselves something is so enough times, eventually they believe it and expect everyone else to believe it as well, despite there not being a grain of truth in what they are actually saying.

"I love you Darling, but" is the opening line of a thousand 'Dear John' messages received by forlorn Lovers, suddenly all their glimmers of hope disappearing in to the ether, leaving a broken heart! Well Hammers desperate hunt for new players isn't quite so emotionally dramatic, however alarm signals should ring when the 'but' word is suddenly involved.

While West Ham's need for an out-and-out striker is blatantly obvious, the club's search for additional players seems focused on acquiring a centre back, or several as the Press point out. Liverpool's Nat Phillips is the latest in a long line of potential defensive targets.