West Ham United manager David Moyes was a very busy man indeed during the summer transfer window.
The Scot let 24 players leave the London Stadium, including 10 players who had featured more than once for the first-team.
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Moyes brought some very good players into West Ham though and he finally has a quality bench to call upon.
How he uses his options this season will now define his tenure in charge of the Hammers.
So overall, how did West Ham fare in the summer transfer window?
We think that it was a great window for the Hammers, albeit not a perfect one…
Judging the West Ham summer transfer window
Moyes brought in Alphonse Areola, Nayef Aguerd, Flynn Downes, Gianluca Scamacca, Maxwel Cornet, Thilo Kehrer, Emerson and Lucas Paqueta.
Patrick Kelly was added to the under-23s as well.
Overall, we’re delighted with that business.
Gianluca Scamacca was signed, bringing an end to the 18 months we went without another centre-forward to provide competition and cover for Michail Antonio.
Thilo Kehrer has proven to be an unbelievable steal whilst Maxwel Cornet and Nayef Aguerd will undoubtedly go on to be key players for West Ham.
The signing of Alphonse Areola was vital with Lukasz Fabianski nearing the end of his career.
Lucas Paqueta was the blockbuster deal of the summer and the Brazilian already looks like he’ll be a huge fan favourite at the London Stadium.
This brings us the two questionable additions. Flynn Downes really does seem like a strange one. He was very impressive during his time with Swansea but Moyes has already admitted that he needs to do a lot better in training.
And Emerson is another who the jury is still very much out on. The Italian does have a lot of talent but we’d have liked Moyes to bring in a younger model. Who knows…perhaps he tried to do that and was unsuccessful.
Hopefully those two players go on to prove me wrong.
The only other gripe I have about the West Ham transfer window was Moyes’s failure to sign a powerful defensive midfielder. Someone like Amadou Onana would have been perfect.
I’m just being picky really though. The players Moyes has brought in far exceeded my expectations.
In addition to all of that, the Scot got rid of squad players like Andriy Yamrolenko, Issa Diop and Ryan Fredericks who were contributing little on the pitch.
Hopefully the West Ham manager builds on that now during future transfer windows.
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