Amazingly there are certain media outlets who have jumped on the 'negative Hammers bandwagon', the most opinionated and ill informed of which have 'highlighted' the club's pre-season Stateside Cup results as an indicator as to how the coming season will pan out!
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Mavropanos, Kilman, Cresswell ©, Emerson, Potts, Ward-Prowse, Souček, Kudus, Antonio Subs: Herrick (GK), Robinson, Kodua, Casey, Aguerd, Orford, Kelly, Scarles, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Earthy, Marshall
Palace: Henderson, Clyne, Riad, Anderson ©, Richards, Mitchell, Hughes, Schlupp, Kamada, Edouard, Ayew Subs: Matthews (GK), Rodney, Umeh, Rak-Sakyi, Mathurin, Devenny
Shell shocked Hammers fans are reeling in disbelief as their club are finally mixing it with the big boys and getting their man, not once, twice or even three times!
In an incredibly pleasant change of direction the club DIDN'T reveal its real transfer kitty and stealthily proceeded to go about its business in a thoroughly professional and effective manner!
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Aguerd, Mavropanos, Cresswell, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Potts, Kudus, Ings, Cornet
Substitutes: Foderingham, Herrick, Zouma, Antonio, Guilherme, Kilman, Irving, Emerson, Earthy, Casey, Marshall, Kelly, Kodua, Scarles, Orford.
Wolves: Bentley, Doherty, Mosquera, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Sarabia, Cundle, M. Lemina, Chiquinho, Cunha, Strand Larsen
Substitutes: King, S. Bueno, Hang, Dawson, H. Bueno, R. Gomes, Doyle, Guedes, Hoever, Lima, Rawlings, Fraser.
The is he or isn't he Jhon Duran to West Ham transfer saga seems finally to have come to a head as the 20 year old Columbian is understood to have agreed personal terms with The Irons, and both Hammers and Villa have come to a mutual arrangement regarding the fee ahead of the player's move away from Aston Villa.
This follows breaking news last night that the 'Steidten' was close to agreeing a deal for the red hot striker with a final bid approaching the £40 Million mark.
Let's get one thing straight, no one made Danny Ings sign for West Ham on ludicrously high wages, he was offered an unbelievably massive pay deal by Rob Newman and David Moyes in order to 'entice' him away from Villa for an eye watering £11 Millionon a salary of around £120,000 per week!
Ings CANNOT be blamed for accepting the offer and neither can Villa be blamed for accepting such a ludicrously high transfer fee, the fact is his transfer was a 'right royal cock up' of the highest order!
West Ham are closing in on the double signing of Wolves skipper Max Kilman and Nice's Jean-Clair Todibo. The club have been locked in talks with Wolves for nearly three weeks and the signing of Kilman is seen as yet another sign of David Sullivan's endorsement of the 'Stig & Loopy' show that he put together.
Majority share holder David Sullivan is willing to pull out all of the stops in order to reunite Kilman with Lopetegui, a move seemed firmly aimed at gratifying please his new head coach.
FFP has always been an anomaly to football fans other than those who support teams sponsored or owned by sovereign states, no one seems to know precisely how teams like Man City, PSG and Real Madrid seem to be able to spend limitless amounts of money whereas their own teams are subject to 'third degree' scrutiny over their finances.
There appeared to be more loopholes in FFP than a knitting pattern with implementation of the rules seemingly very unfair, then PSR was introduced which has muddied the waters further! So Whats The Difference Between PSR & FFP?
It is easy to forget that new Hammers manager Julen Lopetegui doesn't officially become West Ham United's manager until July the 1st, the very same day that purchases of 'contracted' overseas players can 'officially' begin.
So it is no small wonder that there have been a bewildering number of reports regarding players heading to East London, NONE of them are entirely fact based but are more 'agent' driven as the sock less wonders begin lining up clubs for their players, whether the player or the clubs wants them or not!