wild-saint

If SR really have their sights on promotion they should use 5m of the Tino cash for JWPs wages for another year and tell him he ain’t going to West Ham.

Thanks for confirming what wrote. The valuations they have set seem to reflect decent value for the seller and but not particularly overpriced for the buying club. Our valuations certainly don't seem to be at a level where we are actively discouraging players leaving. In TL case the media messages from local ITK journalists seemed to suggest he was happy to stay, so why are we selling at any price? I hope we don't receive a bid of circa £30m for Alcaraz as I suspect they will take it when he has also indicated he is happy to stay.

Great deal my arse. Top player and if Newcastle felt there was a risk of the injury recurring or him not being the player he was before his injury then they wouldn't fork out £40m. SR seem to be happy to sell anyone that meets their valuation. Assuming we get acceptable bids for JWP, Lavia, KWP, Sulamana, Alcaraz, Tella, Adams then we will be left with the absolute dross. I can only assume the only reason Alcaraz isnt likely to be going is because he actually wants to stay rather than the club saying we wont sell. Time will tell how much of any money generated will be spent on decent quality replacements.

and that is the reason we wont accept less than £40m IMO. I reckon he has been told he can go with our blessing if the price is right otherwise get the fuck on with it and get us back up. Lavia is a different ball game because someone will give us £50m in fear of someone else taking him and potentially missing out on a future world class talent.

I was rather hoping such a forum legend would be able to come up with some new material during periods zero transfer news. So imagine my disappointment when we just see the same old tired comedy threads come out season after season.

What if a good offer doesnt materialise?

Although if you change your date range to the last 30 years then not so much.

you really dont

I wonder how much of the potential lavia / jwp money will be used paying off contracts to get players out of the door and off the wage bill. Although a clear out and rebuild is required.

most of these players arent british and probably will go home / other countries etc and arent effected by UK tax laws so its not particularly relevant.

Sorry, I meant the squad wasn't good enough last season to do anything but go down and if that's the case are you saying whoever was manager had no chance and therefore not at fault?

Ok so you think last seasons squad isn't good enough to gain promotion and therefore clearly not good enough to do anything but go down bottom of the league last season? if that's the case are you saying whoever was manager had no chance and therefore not at fault? Making that assumption i wonder if i searched your posts would there be any calling for RH, Mad Nate or Selles head which would be pointless?

Id like to think if we sell our better players late in the window then the 4-5 championship games they do play in means we have a better chance of winning. Unless of course you are going to give some reason why a midfield with Lavia and JWP is worse than charles and a some other random championship player that we could replace them with. Il await for the "they wont try as they wont want to get injured reasoning" but lets be honest im not sure either of those players would play at less than 100%.

Le Saux 🙃

Fuck me that was a class save

entertainment value for season ticket holders i presume 😉

its not like its only for a couple of weeks. He will need to be at training 4/5 days a week plus match day for near on 9 months of the year. who cares whether he is driven or drives himself in a rolls royce its still an absolute minimum of 4 hours in a car each day. yes he could rent a flat but how long before he and more importantly his wife gets fucked off with him being away from his young child for 3 nights per week. sustainable short term but not on a 3 year contract. it will get frustrating pretty damn quick. he has to weigh that up over playing in the PL with westham if he wont move. i think Fulham is his most likely destination if any, with even Brighton a bit of trek from winchester. it will definitely be factored into his decision and he may just buy into Russell Martin and give it a year to get back. its more likely than any of the other mercenaries that want out

Yep and that could easily rule out west ham. Would he leave Saints for Fulham on a contract not particularly bigger than what he is on now? I guess could come down to his confidence that RM can build a promotion winning team.

ive heard that his wife doesn't wasn't to leave their home in Winchester /Twyford way and as such only London clubs are realistic as he will need to commute to training. guess that means Wet Spam and or Fulham. Not sure where west ham train but that could be a trek each day that could put him off.

IF Lavia was any good why did they let him leave?

Id like to see more of him at championship level particularly if KWP goes. TIno and BRee as the RB options would be one position covered.

This @exwestham guy is one of the only ITK at west Ham. He comes out with all sorts of info that is on the money.

I dont recall seeing any bids of £45m for Lavia or £35m for JWP do you? There seems to be a lot of talk about low bids and saints asking too much but little mutual ground being made on getting closer. Not sure what you want saints to do to get things moving as you havent really offered an alternatives. Sure id rather know where we are with players out and In but it really doesnt seem as simple as you are making it sound. Do you really think saints saying ok well take 35 on JWP or 40 on lavia will ensure we get that money or will it just weaken our hand further as we are desperate?

So unless we buy before we sell which you say we cant do then we have no alternative to sell at a reduced price to get them gone seeing as we have of no way of making any team match our valuation. With that in mind what number do you think we should accept right now for Lavia, JWP, AKB, KWP etc? also if we indicated that we would accept maybe 30m for Lavia, what would stop them offering maybe 20m? I would suggest if you cant give an answer to these questions you are just talking bollox.

yeah he has a kid in liverpool i thought hence wanting to stay up north