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what has happened to the transfer section?

Denmark Spur said:
So dutch media reports say that West Hams record signing will be Wilfried Bony from Vitesse Arnhem.

Anyone know anything about him? Haver never seen him play
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the one striker whos gettable who i've really wanted us to sign for over a year now.
 
rosenthal said:
Doesn't matter who our new striker(s) are replacing, what matter is whether they're good enough to take us where we hope to be going.
Sign Hooper and Wolfswinkel is easy enough, then we have strikers fitting for a top 10 side.
They won't have us challenging United though
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So if we cant afford a striker that will help us challenge Manure etc for the title

And we dont want a striker who would only be good enough for a top ten side

Then I suppose we are stuck huh.
 
DHSF said:
So if we cant afford a striker that will help us challenge Manure etc for the title

And we dont want a striker who would only be good enough for a top ten side

Then I suppose we are stuck huh.
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Then we look for strikers that has potential to become good enough,
not settle for someone mediocre.
 
rosenthal said:
Then we look for strikers that has potential to become good enough,
not settle for someone mediocre.
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Potential is one of those things that is very difficult to measure though. What one person sees at potential, someone else sees at 'flavour of the month'


And Strikers with the potential we want cost pretty much the same as the players who have the ability already.
 
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Spursalot said:
Potential is one of those things that is very difficult to measure though. What one person sees at potential, someone else sees at 'flavour of the month'


And Strikers with the potential we want cost pretty much the same as the players who have the ability already.
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That's the risk one have to take, have to have faith in the manager/head coach and his scouts,
sometimes we'll hit, sometimes we won't, but we should never stop trying.
It's often about looking for players with extreme qualities.

Not saying Wolfsvinkel is a poor player, probably as good as Defoe and someone we could use as squad player.
But he's not one I'd go for as main transfer target, and is not someone I think us fans should be upset about not signing when the transfer happen already in march.
 
rosenthal said:
That's the risk one have to take, have to have faith in the manager/head coach and his scouts,
sometimes we'll hit, sometimes we won't, but we should never stop trying.
It's often about looking for players with extreme qualities.

Not saying Wolfsvinkel is a poor player, probably as good as Defoe and someone we could use as squad player.
But he's not one I'd go for as main transfer target, and is not someone I think us fans should be upset about not signing when the transfer happen already in march.
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You make it sound so easy.


Unfortunately there are also a vast quantity of other clubs trying to do exactly the same thing.
 
galeforce said:
think of all the lucky escapes we had in the past, Michael ricketts, Michael bridges, Marcus Stewart
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Bridges got serious injuries early on, difficult to say what he could have become.
Ricketts and Stewart were clearly limited players that were in the form of their life.
Like signing R.Lambert, Hooper and their likes today.

There actually was a similiar debate on this board back then with many upset because we didn't buy Ricketts in the january window as we needed a striker,
while others said the most important thing wasn't to sign someone/anyone as soon as possible, but that the most important thing was to get the right player.
The following summer we signed Robbie Keane in stead.
 
Spursalot said:
You make it sound so easy.


Unfortunately there are also a vast quantity of other clubs trying to do exactly the same thing.
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Not saying it's easy, just that we shouldn't settle for less
There will be competition, but we're in the best situation we've ever been in my lifetime
 
rosenthal said:
Not saying it's easy, just that we shouldn't settle for less
There will be competition, but we're in the best situation we've ever been in my lifetime
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I agree that we should try, could you imagine the commotion if we sign two and they fail to live up to our expectations though? 8-[


It's going to make for an interesting couple of years.
 
Ade has failed to live up to expectations. He is a failed gamble. I was delighted when we signed him but now he looks a player devoid of all confidence. I know he scored against Inter (a vital goal too) but if ever a player need a few goals to reignite their passion it is Ade. I'm convinced a few lucky goals would turn him back into the player we thought we were buying.

I guess my point is every striker is a gamble, even those proven to work at the club and by rights should be a success. The fact that both our senior strikers are going through a prolonged loss of form and we are still where we are just goes to show where we could have been if we had a plan C. Even a one dimensional plan C.
 
we have been linked with Osvaldo the past few days. We were linked with him before he signed for Roma. Having watched a fair bit of Roma this year (mainly for Pjanic and Lamela), I have been quite impressed by Osvaldo, very composed on the ball, unselfish footballer but he has a great finish on him. I don't think he's necessarily a 20+ prem goals a season player but who knows what could happen!
 
I was going to start a new thread on this a while ago but maybe this is the best place for it.

As I see it we have two options for our much needed striker. We either sign a young player who may develop to be as good as the best strikers in the league or we sign a striker from a bigger club who didn't quite make the mark.

What do people think would be more likely to be a successful approach?
 
milo said:
I was going to start a new thread on this a while ago but maybe this is the best place for it.

As I see it we have two options for our much needed striker. We either sign a young player who may develop to be as good as the best strikers in the league or we sign a striker from a bigger club who didn't quite make the mark.

What do people think would be more likely to be a successful approach?
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Is an interesting question.

Not quite sure how a young player would get on, a lot of people don't seem to want to give the time and effort to the talented youngsters we already possess. If they didn't at least give a semblance of a top players performance in their early appearances they would pretty quickly be written off.
 
I think the latter, as long as its someone with the attitude that they are going to prove themselves wrongly discarded by the bigger club
 
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