Tit for Tat! The Hammers have agreed an eye-watering €29,000,000 for Taty Castellanos, who’s an Argentinian currently playing for Lazio.

The forward had suffered a falling out with Lazio manager, Maurizio Sarri and it has come across as destined for the Argentinian to leave this transfer window. The forward found London to be a ‘dream’ place to move, and it has been said that he has been a significant driving force to ensure that the deal can come together.

It’s the 1st of the month, but it’s not April Fools! West Ham United seem set to make their first signing of the January transfer window and it’s for the Portuguese international Pablo.

The Pablo deal has excelled at a rate not many would’ve anticipated given West Ham’s previous negotiation tactics, but today, the youngster will undergo his medical in London, seeing as a fee has already been agreed, as well as personal terms.

Hammers held as the Seagulls salvage a singular point in a chaotic final fixture of a dreadful 2025. Disappointing, but expected, a moment of madness for both sides, including the third party, that being the referee who made a handful of turbulent calls throughout the game.

West Ham: Areola; Walker-Peters, Todibo, Kilman, Scarles; Potts, Magassa, Fernandes; Paqueta, Wilson, Bowen
Subs: Hermansen, Summerville, Mavropanos, Rodriguez, Soucek, Earthy, Kante, Golambeckis, Mayers

Brighton: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, De Cuyper, Dunk, Van Hecke, Veltman, Milner, Ayari, Minteh, Gomez, Welbeck
Subs: Steele, Gruda, Hinshelwood, Georginio, Koustoulas, Boscagu, Mitoma, Coppola

West Ham’s season has gone far from what they initially anticipated, in which it seems that everything that could’ve gone wrong so far has gone wrong. From the players to the owners to the facilities, it all feels as if it’s crumbling down before our very eyes and a miraculous U-turn seems near impossible.

The Hammers were forced to endure a relegation-level result courtesy of crucial chances missed, lousy passes and an overall lack of clinical ability.

Fulham, who looked nothing but appalling for 90 minutes, nicked a goal through Ollie Scarles’ dire mistake, where he sliced the ball, and the subsequent failed clearance gave Fulham a clean cut cross to match Jimenez’s head and the game was sealed.

West Ham: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Todibo, Scarles, Potts, Fernandes, Magassa, Paqueta, Bowen(c), Summerville.
Subs: Hermansen, Golambeckis, Earthy, Mavropanos, Mayers, Kante, Soucek, Rodriguez, Wilson.

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Andersen, Cuenca, Robinson, Lukic, Berge; Wilson, Smith Rowe, Kevin, Jimenez.
Subs: Lecomte, Castagne, Diop, Reed, Ridgeon, Cairney, King, Traore, Kusi-Asare.

David Sullivan’s Merry-Go-Round strategy is already being implemented as he has found a handful of striker targets from the Czech League and will attempt to convince one to come over to replace the departed Fulkrug.

It’ll be all aboard the plane to the Czech Republic, but that’s only lucky if you’re not sent on coach! The names of interest from said region are Viktoria Plzen’s forward Rafiu Durosinmi, who’s a Nigerian Forward that ultimately embodies the like-for-like definition of a target man.

It has recently been revealed that David Sullivan is set to have a ‘significant’ say upon who will and won’t be signed for the January window ahead, and in Scrooge’s eyes at the moment, he sees fit that only a striker is desperately needed and not anywhere else, which is staggering, as given the performances the Hammers have had…

Perhaps he’s not been able to see properly from his padded seat at the Bowl.

Going to Manchester City is never easy and securing a win there is even harder, so difficult that we haven’t done it since 2014!