It seems that Sebastien Haller is about to move to Ajax for £20 million with the Hammers losing £25 million on Seb in a season and a half. So another piece of terrible business from West Ham. But really there's not a lot of choice. Haller just doesn't fit into Moyes' system (or indeed Pellegrini's) and doesn't have anything like the energy of Antonio if we're playing a lone striker.
He undoubtedly has talent as we saw with brilliant goals against Palace and Sheffield United, but as Moyes pointedly pointed out, he needs to get tap-ins as well as wonder goals and he hasn't been doing that. It's astonishing that WHU would pay £45 million for a striker without pace and his body language has looked all wrong, as if he'd rather be elsewhere. He doesn't even look excited when he scores, which is hard to understand.
Haller might prosper if a team is built around him and he has a strike partner at Ajax, but he doesn't fit around the players West Ham currently have. What we have to do though is quickly sign a replacement as Antonio's hamstrings are more delicate than the state of US democracy. And please not Arnautovic — a great player on his day but a player who always move on when it suits him.
It also seems Robert Snodgrass might be on the move to join Big Sam at West Brom. We've always liked a trier and its admirable the way he came back after being frozen out and loaned to Villa for a season. Snoddy whips in a great corner and free kick and scored a few memorable goals, most notably his half-volley against Crystal Palace. But at 33 you can understand that he might want to play every week, so good luck to him. He could be a fine signing for WBA.
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