West Ham United are allegedly in talks to sign experienced striker Danny Ings from Aston Villa in the January transfer window.
That’s according to a report from the Telegraph who claim that the Hammers are in advanced talks to sign the £25 million rated Aston Villa forward.
However, the report doesn’t state whether West Ham’s bid matches Villa’s valuation of Ings.
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It is a move that is clearly a desperate last throw of the dice by David Moyes, with his side currently embroiled deeply in a relegation battle.
The Hammers have been linked with a move to sign Ings for quite some time now. It just feels like we’ve missed the boat on signing the hard-working striker by at least two or three years. However, he would still do a job for us in the short-term…
West Ham in advanced talks to sign Danny Ings
The Telegraph claim that the Hammers are deep in talks about bringing the 30-year-old Aston Villa striker to East London in the January transfer window.
Moyes has clearly reached the point where he wants to buy someone who has a proven track record of scoring goals in England’s top flight.
The Villa striker has scored 68 Premier League goals during his time in the game, and 120 in 350 games in total (Transferemarkt).
So he certainly knows where the back of the net is.
If Ings adds to his 68 Premier League goals with another seven or eight between now and the end of the season, it would undoubtedly help keep West Ham in the Premier League.
The problem that I have with this potential signing is that it reeks of short-termism and a complete and utter lack of forward planning.
There seems to be zero clarity at the London Stadium with Moyes’s supposed vision when it comes to signing players to fit into a certain system. It’s very much a scattergun approach.
West Ham are in talks to sign Ings, so it seems as though David Moyes is desperate to get a proven goalscorer through the door. It’s just a shame that he’s left it this late to make it happen. The Scot could have signed him or someone similar last January and who knows? Maybe we would have finished inside the top four.
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