Not a great deadline day for the Hammers. A late loan move for Emmanuel Adebayor from Spurs fell through after Daniel Levy reportedly refused to pay any of Adebayor's £100k a week wages if he went to West Ham. This in turn meant that Carlton Cole's move to West Brom fell through and the boomerang striker returned to Upton Park. Meanwhile Darren Fletcher signed for West Brom on a permanent deal; the fact West Ham only wanted him on loan suggests we had reservations about his fitness and ability to recapture his form.
According to Jack Sullivan on Twitter we were involved in eight deals that fell through. Harry Redknapp had offered a bizarre loan deal where Matt Jarvis went to QPR and Mauro Zarate returned to Upton Park, but this was not allowed under Premier League regulations. As for the Adebayor deal, you wonder if the move was because Andy Carroll's hamstring injury is worse than reported. Adebayor is certainly a fantastic player on his day, but seems to have a suspect attitude, having fallen out with the fans at Arsenal, Manchester City and Spurs. Tim Sherwood got the best from him last season at Spurs though and if he is finally maturing, with decent man management he might have been a good loan signing.
So as it is we've released Ricardo Vaz Te and loaned out Mauro Zarate and bought in young centre back Doneil Henry and agreed that Hamilton's Stephen Hendrie will join WHU in the summer. While it looks like Ravel Morrison is on his way to Italy in the summer. So WHU actually have a slightly weaker squad than before the window opened. Though the big bonus is that Winston Reid is still at the club for the rest of the season — and if he does go can we please sell him to anyone but Spurs.
7 comments:
Levy must have laughed himself to sleep last night, poor little west ham, season is officially over and the slump begins now :-) Well done Levy, mugged off gold nicely
A laughing stock again, issues with FIFA and farcical transfer window.A frustrated squad,injuries,poor squad selection,players out on loan that we now need,a manager on a mega money contract who appears at odds with the club.Things look bad for the rest of the season, a top six finish that has popped like all them bubbles on matchday.
Never fear Sam has a cunning plan, a white knight on a fiery steed to plug our defensive crisis! Step forward the one the only Roger Johnson, sure we can get him on a five year £60,000 a week contract. Hang on a minute wasn't that what Winston Reid wanted to stay?
Bad day yesterday though we still have a decent squad and mustn't waste that great start. Realistically we're looking at finishing seventh or eighth now… and placating Fifa. Need Sakho available, Valencia firing, Jenkinson back, Song back on form and Nolan back on the bench.
Was Levy really so smart? He's left paying £170,000 a week to a player he doesn't want. Reckon he's mugged himself off proper.
And Levy has admitted he's worried about West Ham competing with Spurs, so as Sullivan says, it is a backhanded compliment in a way. Is it really 170k a week Adebayor gets? Blimey.
Can you imagine Levy paying Adebayor £170,000 a week as a third choice striker? No far to tight! He is probably picking up around £70,000 a week.Probably trying to mug WHU FOR £30,000.Well avoided at that price.
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