Summer 2018 Transfer Window

[Saint Domingo]

You speak about West Ham’s good window in the ‘other teams transfer window’ thread and you get accused of being a hammers fan in there (I did!) I think the general rule throughout the whole forum is that you cannot talk positively about any other club.

General rule is that you can’t talk positively about Everton. Bigging up other teams is normally encouraged.

 

[GwladysBlue]

People are assuming that because West Ham are spending vast amounts of money on players that it will go the way we did last season.

Think that is a big assumption to be making. Pelegrín is a clever manager. They could easily out-do us this season.

We need to get a move on making improvements to our average squad, and fast.

Standing still is regressing in a league full of teams who are prepared to invest heavily.

 

[ToePeg]

You sir are quite mad and I`d hazard a guess, are no stranger to other teams forums.

All good old withering put downs being a 'you sir'.

 

[ToffeeJord]

People are assuming that because West Ham are spending vast amounts of money on players that it will go the way we did last season.

Think that is a big assumption to be making. Pelegrín is a clever manager. They could easily out-do us this season.

We need to get a move on making improvements to our average squad, and fast.

Standing still is regressing in a league full of teams who are prepared to invest heavily.

It also looks like they won’t have to finance it with major player sales like we have to

 

[neil999]

I'm aware that I should know better than to take fundamentalist football fans seriously, but this one is particularly absurd.

wat

 

[ToePeg]

Any chance we can all invade the west spam forum and turn that in to one where people talk about Everton?

 

[Winslow89]

We didn't have 'everything' last summer though. It was just a middle-of-the-road spending spree in the Premier League, most of which came from selling our best player.

West Ham are having a similar middle-of-the-road spending spree this summer. It's the type of thing that you expect from mid-table clubs like Everton, Leicester, West Ham, Palace etc.

I don't know whether their fans convince themselves that all of their expenditure is being met by their owners though, that might just be an Everton thing.

We do like to overthink situations and explore every angle don't we.

Perhaps the fans would be happier with a more pro-active shifting of the dead wood but then you'd have expected that to have happened during the world cup, so that money could be spent now it's over.

 

[MikeH72]

dunno how strong our interest is but my mate reackons aaron cresswells agents on a mission to get him up north, either her or wolves

Wolves please.

 

[COYBL25]

People are assuming that because West Ham are spending vast amounts of money on players that it will go the way we did last season.

Think that is a big assumption to be making. Pelegrín is a clever manager. They could easily out-do us this season.

We need to get a move on making improvements to our average squad, and fast.

Standing still is regressing in a league full of teams who are prepared to invest heavily.

The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hooray

 

[windymiller]

Outs mean we'll finish 10th? We just finished 8th with this squad.

So, are you saying we will finish 8th with departures from the squad and with no additions? Because if you are then that makes two major assumptions, the first being that the teams around us will not improve and the second being that the players we are left with won't decline in ability in that time frame. They seem like big assumptions to me and @Sir Alan 's prediction of 10th seems pretty reasonable in my opinion.

Thankfully, I think we will sign a small number of new players and this conversation will be moot.

 

[Tubey]

Any chance we can all invade the west spam forum and turn that in to one where people talk about Everton?

They already do that like 90% of the time.

RIP Payet's ankle, never forgotten x

 

[Moomin]

Can someone please explain to me the West Ham obsession on here?

As I really don’t get it

It's a summer transfer thread, we have signed no-one so we will talk about a club who is making some movements in the market.

 

[MikeH72]

West ham have a better manager and a good group of players.
Even the teams coming up have decent players.

Really? Have they sacked Pellegrini already?

 

[Winslow89]

It also looks like they won’t have to finance it with major player sales like we have to

In all fairness, Rom absolutely despised wearing the shirt mate - not going to say he forced the move, but if he'd of been happy we wouldn't have sold him.

 

[Raino85]

Thames Ironworks FC