It is fair to say West Ham United fans are far from happy over the club’s failure to bring in a striker in the winter window.
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David Moyes wanted a striker in summer. And that was BEFORE Sebastien Haller was sold to Ajax for £20million last month.
Back then, with three weeks left of the window, pundits and the more optimistic among West Ham fans assumed a new striker had been lined up.
No Prem club in their right mind would leave their manager with one injury-prone striker…. would they?
After all no Premier League club in their right mind would leave their manager with just one injury-prone forward for the rest of the season. Or would they.
Well West Ham have done exactly that after David Sullivan and David Gold failed to get deals done for a number of targets MOYES wanted to bring to the club.
A striker is not West Ham’s only issue. The club are worryingly short in central midfield too. An injury to Declan Rice, Tomas Soucek – or heaven forbid both – would cause major headaches for Moyes.
Many West Ham fans they and Moyes have been let down by co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold.
Angry fans feel Moyes has been let down but they won’t forget the £20m banked from Haller sale
Supporters are furious – if not at all surprised – that having got West Ham in the mix for European qualification, Moyes has not been given the tools to kick on and make the most of a wide open season.
West Ham fans won’t forget the £20m that is now sat in club coffers from the Haller sale, though.
Hammers supporters have become part-time financial analysts during the tenure of Sullivan and Gold. They’ve had to be to keep up.
Whether it is tracking the money from the sale of Upton Park to pointing out to GSB’s media cronies that the Said Benrahma cash was already ring-fenced through the sales of Grady Diangana, Jordan Hugill and Albian Ajeti.
Well West Ham fans need not worry about the Haller millions.
That’s according to West Ham insiders Claret & Hugh – who have direct links to Sullivan and Gold.
The site claims that Moyes will have the £20m Haller money added to his summer transfer budget. But stops short of speculating what that budget might be.
Insiders with links to GSB claim unspent millions will be added to West Ham’s summer transfer budget
“The West Ham board have vowed not to interfere with the manager’s decisions insisting he is the only one in charge of transfer policy and no-one else,” Claret & Hugh claim.
“Moyes has made that equally clear on several occasions of late but has been accused of simply doing what the board want him to do.
“Claret and Hugh understands and the manager would rather keep the money and add it to his summer budget rather than spend it at this stage on players he doesn’t feel can help his cause.”
West Ham will also likely sell Felipe Anderson in the summer while Manuel Lanzini and Andriy Yarmolenko could be on their way out too in moves that will further boost Moyes’s budget.
Whether he is actually able to use that money to sign players he wants is another matter entirely – as we’ve seen in the winter window.
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