One of the few remaining viable players available to fill Hammers gaping striker gap, has joined the other 'nearly signings' that Hammers have 'missed out' on, as Danny Ings is announced as Aston Villa's latest signing. Ings does have a poor injury record, which will be the reason West Ham will officially release as to why their interest wasn't peeked.
The PAI announcement due later today about their take over plans won't help matters that need urgent attention, no matter what they say it won't 'magic up' a striker from nowhere and perhaps their interest will only serve to have a derogatory effect on the club.
To be honest in a way their interest coild end up being a PAI'N in supporters' backsides, because it will just add smoke to back up the mirrors already in place at the club.
Big hitters the Daily & Sunday Express online and the Guardian have both run juxtaposed stories regarding Hammers 'apparent interest' in signing Chelsea's Kurt Zouma, the Express group published an article yesterday stating 'Zouma has his heart set on transfer to West Ham, whereas today the Guardian and others use 'Chelsea transfer heartbreak as Zouma refuses West Ham move', as their headline.
27 year old Paul Onuachu is currently the Belgian Pro League Player of the Year, rumours were rife following his omission from the match day squad against KV Oostende on July the 30th that he was on his way out of the club, with West Ham United being ONE of his preferred destinations.
Onuachu had been criticised for playing at a level below what people were used to seeing in his first two matches of the season against Club Brugge and Standard Liege, but scored against Shakhtar Donetsk in Genk's third game of the season.
Encouraging images of Jarrod Bowen and Angelo Ogbonna moving freely during light training are a sight for sore eyes, David Moyes's first team squad is already so silver Rizzla light that it cannot afford the loss of either player. For a long time there have been salient observations made with regards to Hammers' training facilities, or lack of them as is the case.
Quite why a club such as West Ham even countenances deals for players with horrendous injury records is beyond us, so news that there is 'interest' in signing Liverpool's perennially injured midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is baffling. The £35 Million player missed the majority of last season with an injury, as he did on his previous two seasons.
News that MSG are about to build a massive ball shaped advertising tower in the Queen Elizabeth Park has gone down like a lead balloon with local residents, match day chaos which already happens would be added to and resources stretched to the limit will become even worse. Now interestingly one of the the people behind MSG is none other than Kia Joorabchian, he was part of MSI, you remember Kia he was the one planted Tevez and Mascherano at West Ham when he was trying to take over the club.
Large doses of reality are unwelcome in most aspects of life, even more so for football supporters desperate for their clubs to do well, even though they know in their hearts that success is very unlikely on a repeated basis, even so called top teams with relatively endless budgets!
During the 'lazy crazy days' of Manuel Pellegrini's era, the club, egged on by the majority of it's fanbase, pushed the boat out to acquire the cream of the crop. Unfortunately the cream got a little clotted when Sebastien 'le sulk' Haller strolled up to the bowl in Stratford.
We acknowledge that it is after all the 'silly season', but there is silly and then there's just plain stupid, the latter being a category that the Martin Braithwaite from Barcelona to West Ham 'story' falls in. The 'fantasy' story, if you are representing Barcelona, or the nightmare if you are a Hammers fan, is being continuously and erroneously reported and re reported by a steady stream of media outlets that should know better.
With only three weeks remaining before the first home fixture of the Barclays Premier League, the 8PM evening kick off against Leicester City on the 23rd of August, fans still don't know where and in what form their season tickets are. London rivals Chelsea have already sent out their season tickets in the same format as the last real season, ie: a credit card type of ticket, the same as was used by West Ham since the move to the London Stadium.