You wait all season for one striker and then two turn up at once. Not sure this signing strikers thing will catch on, but such is West Ham's plight that the board has been prompted to act early in the window. Pablo Felipe has arrived for £22 million from Gil Vicente in Portugal. Interestingly his dad Pena is from Brazil and played with Nuno Espirito Santo at Porto, so the gaffer should know a bit about his family background and character.
The 22-year-old Pablo grew up in Portugal and then Brazil, so has plenty of football culture to fall back on, as well as an impressive beard. It will take time to adapt to the Premier League but the striker has scored ten goals this season and is by all accounts decent at holding the ball up, essential for a counter-attacking side. He might even get some game time at Wolves.
The Irons are also signing Valentin "Taty" Castellanos from Lazio for £25 million. The Argentine forward scored ten times in Serie A last season and twice after returning from injury this time out so let's see what he can do. There's a lot of activity with Fulham's Adama Traore set to be re-united with Nuno and interest in Toulouse's Charlie Cresswell, who might have the leadership qualities and aerial dominance we need at the back.
Meanwhile Niclas Fullkrug has been loaned to AC Milan where he can be "very angry" with an option to sign at the end of the season, and another Steidten folly Luis Gulilherme is set to sign for Sporting Lisbon. If we can get the reported £16 million for Luis that's good business for a player who has done very little in the Premier League since signing.
James Ward-Prowse will also surely depart. I'm not sure what Nuno has against him but he's been treated pretty unfairly. Ward-Prowse is a solid pro who never complains and doesn't get injured. He can take a great corner and even if too slow for central midfield surely deserved a place on the bench rather than being excluded from the squad entirely.
But overall you've got to say this looks like progress. Now all we have to do is beat a team that hasn't won for 19 games. What could possibly go wrong?
