Antonio saying everyone at west ham knows Arnautovic wants to go - then get rid asap. His performance against Arsenal was poor anyway and we did fine without him in the matches before. The question here is - who do we bring in to replace him? Lets hear the realistic candidates.

Not gone yet but looks that way but do we need to panic buy in January? i am not so sure...when you look how we coped without him when he was injured we had one of our best spells of the season so why panic...we are not going to get relegated(saying that in January wow)and we do have options upfront so lets wait until the summer i say....look at the way we played yesterday we looked comfortable and with players able to cause problems and create chances for whoever starts up front...Anderson,Nasri,Antonio,Rice,Snodgrass,All comfortable on the ball and able to bring others into the matches and create chances for others....yes i doubt like many that Carroll can last 4 months without picking up another injury Chicarito can fire the goals when he returns from injury perfect time to give the Lad silva some game time in the first team as for Perez well he has no confidence right now so maybe a run for him in the side can help.....we are a side creating chances and have a number of players who are a goal threat not just strikers but from wide positions and midfield so again IMO we should keep our powder dry see the rest of the season out whilst El Pel and his team run the rule over potential replacements for arnie and then make a move in the summer when prices not so over hyped as they currently are...as i write this i notice Callum Wilson is not in the Bournemouth Squad today so moves by chelski or us mmmm who knows i like the player a lot but he has had two bad injuries in recent times and we all no our luck with players like that so for me i would say at £50million errrr no thank you.

Balbuena who has been a revelation at the back for us is out for the next 6 to 8 weeks after undergoing an operation....why the hell cant Masuaku suffer such a big injury and leave our top players alone!

Happy new year boys:-) i am a little tipsy still and think i better go to bed after seeing the new year in but i must leave this for you to see as it is a warning of the dangers in january signings.

https://youtu.be/cjVW_VnfTH4

So we've signed the dope on a rope (Nasri) the greasy one!!! Must be the injury crisis. Cant see any other reason to upset the apple cart.

I got right cheesed off ,every Saturday with them winning so just before last weekend when they went second I noticed they were still 16/1 so I had a score on them ,well that seems to have done the trick watched them this afternoon against Wolves ,the transformation was something to behold ,don't think they had a shot on target in the second half ,they were as flat as a pancake ,so if me having a cut on them means they go downhill then it's bloody money well spent .

Thats where we will be tomorrow when we stuff Burnley...screw jinxing it i've got DITM fever we will destroy them and surge up to 7th in the table COYI

Being reported by a good source it's 90% done

Wheelchair out for another 5 weeks minimum! oh dear no sooner do we seemingly have Carroll back for a week or two before he pulls a hair follicle and is out for the season we now have another player with a history of injuries on the long term sick,i can only hope that from now on that the injury curse that is west ham does not strike anymore players.

Yes the silly season is upon us with rumour after rumour but one i found funny and seems contradictory is the Loftus Cheek one...Allegedly we and Palace are after him us with a Loan to permanent deal which apparently Chelski are open too(dont they see how good he is?)but in the next breath chelski looking to buy Callum Wilson for £30million(striker i have always rated even when in lower divisions)as they are WORRIED about the number of English players they need in the squad for european and domestic competitions!....so why would they want shot of Loftus Cheek and Moses? makes no sense at all