nordtveit been sold for an undisclosed fee to hoffenheim....probably because there was not one!! whose next out the door?

if we are as serious as the reports then we should get the deal done. weve been asking for a quality striker and imo giroud is one. 19 goals last season despite being the stand in for sanchez. would be a great signing imo.

Reports thst this is a done deal. Some bookies suspended betting on us signing him. If true this would be a great signing and we can ship out snodgrass

liverpool are looking to offload a number of players and one in particular a certain Lazar Markovic who was on loan at hull last season and he was outstanding in a team that struggled badly..his first touch and technique is something we currently do not have up front so forget bats from chavski this man would prove cheaper and an all round upgrade on what we have...i say cheaper because we know how our owners love a deal! the money saved could maybe attract siggurdson now everton have just splashed out on ajax captain...got to be quick now as the market starting to warm up and with the season starting early this year best get players in and settled within the squad when preseason training starts

Henry Onyekuru i am sure you have all seen the reports and rumours and how we could get him for £7million but guess what the goalposts have moved and it appears to clubs outside of Belgium its £9million still not a lot in prem league terms but when you also find out he may fail to gain a work permit i have to ask would the money not be better spent nearer home...yes you all know the player i like and £9million would get him easy and wages like Antonio started with of £35grand will be perfect for us....the championship easily equals the belgian league IMO so why not take a risk here than overseas on a player where the transfer issue changes daily it seems.....

thats 9 points then

Just to give an opportunity to break from the monotony of the striker theme, what do people thinking about our coaching staff? I sit very close to the bench on match days and Chris Woods and especially Julian Dicks don't say or do anything. Now maybe they do a lot more at training but I get the feeling not. I feel that Dicks especially is totally token gesture. That's fine if you're successful, but he's taking the place of someone who might add something. Jurcevic is basically to Slav what Phil Neal was to Graham Taylor. Then we've got a 35 year-old first team coach who played a bit of lower league. Where's the debate? Where's the other opinion coming from? Surrounding yourself with a load of yes men is great if it all goes well, look at Conte and Mourinho but not if you're struggling

Joe hart to be thrown a lifeline by west ham mmmm he is a very average keeper IMO always said it and yesterday against scotland did not prove me wrong....i no you like him dicksy and think he could offer something to the team but i just see errors and mistakes from him..yes he will pull off some mind blowing saves but he as i have mentioned just makes to many mistakes for me....also we are now linked with giroud again mmmm unless we managed to offload carroll why would we buy giroud? who lets face it suffers more than his fair share of injuries...oh all the fun of the rumour mill makes for some fun in the long weeks ahead and on wed morning when the fixtures are released we will see just how good/bad it will be for us with 3 away games on the bounce? watford/chelski/leicester? be a nice 3 as we will need to get a few points on the board before the first home game but knowing our luck it will be citeh/arsenal/manure!

I'm on record as saying the Hammers should spend big to get Iheanacho and/or Batsuayi this Summer. But such a move would cost them. Meanwhile you see reports of the sort that say, West Ham should sign "Goal-Scoring Beast" Steve Mounie from Montpelier for £13M, instead of Batsuayi. That's small change in the current market, in which a defender like Southampton's Virgil Van Dijk is valued at £50M. But interestingly, Van Dijk himself was signed for £13M. And looking back over a host of players who now command ginormous transfer fees, it seems clear that the best VALUE to be had in the transfer market is in the £10M-£20M range. Of course these transfers are generally a bigger gamble than paying out big on a proven commodity, but when they work out, it is the best value for a club. This makes me understand better the temptation that SUGO have to look for bargain deals, but is it worth the gamble?

so the transfer window soon to open and of the many names mentioned and tenuous links to players the most noise coming out is about the club looking hard at striking options with nacho and bats being mentioned on a regular basis...now of course it would be stupid not to expect competition for players like this but I wonder just how serious we are about trying to get these players in?? according to reports coming out of chelski it is not a loan they want for bats but a full transfer and you will be looking at £35million+ so when push comes to shove will our club put up that kind of money for him plus the rumoured £25million for nacho?...being linked with such players makes good copy and entices we the fan to part with money for season tickets etc but sadly seeing is believing and already I can hear we tried to get them but because of FFP we could not do it,cynical yes without doubt but don't I/we have good reason to be.....hopefully I/we are proved wrong but until I see the players signed I will not be enticed by the smoke and mirrors that are used by the board.