West Ham fans had to endure an incredibly frustrating transfer deadline day.
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We didn’t sign a single player, and now our squad seems to be incredibly light.
Hammers boss David Moyes was clearly trying to bring an established centre-back to the London Stadium, but he ended up with nobody.
West Ham are now worryingly light in central midfield as well, having sold Jose Cullen and released Jack Wilshere.
The east London outfit do still have 10 days remaining to address those issues, but we can only sign someone from the Championship.
Harry Redknapp suggested that West Ham are in very good shape, however, when speaking to Sky Sports on transfer deadline day last night (Monday October 5th, 22:25):
“West Ham look ok Jim. Let’s be honest, they’ve gone to Leicester and what a performance, what a result. They can only cut their cloth accordingly if they haven’t got the money. It looks to me like they’ve made some good signings. The two Czechoslovakian boys they look very good players. They’ve kept Declan Rice. David is getting the best out of the players there, so let’s see how they go. I think West Ham will be fine this year.”
Redknapp quite simply doesn’t get it.
Our squad is paper thin. We are down to the bare bones, and are one injury away to either Declan Rice or Tomas Soucek from being in real trouble.
Sure, we have good players. But we have incredibly weak strength in depth in two vitally important areas – central defence and central midfield.
If we don’t bring in at least two, and preferably three players, before October 16th it could be a long and hard season ahead for us.
Let’s just hope that there is a clear plan in place rather than this scattergun strategy that has served us so badly in the past.
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