Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[LeeB]

That's truly remarkable. 80m. Jesus Christ.

For a player that needs six touches on the ball to turn around.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Rice is a good player, not sure he is worth that much but could be their midfield lynchpin for years like Lampard was.

Of the spurious links I have seen to midfielders Barclay is the one I'd like to happen. Right sort of player, still young and would add some guts to midfield. Milner or Delph would also be good older heads to help out for a season or two.

If we can't get Rashica I would like to see us go for Buendia. If we take one more striker would prefer Tammy, but would also be quite excited if we got Brewster.

[Brend'Watkins]

That's truly remarkable. 80m. Jesus Christ.

For a player that needs six touches on the ball to turn around.

He's like Corporal Jones in Dad's Army getting into position.

[DB]

We really, really need a new decent central midfielder.  If we don't get one, I think it'll be nearly as stupid as going into last season with just Wesley up front.

CMF and CB. We're vulnerable in both areas.

I agree. Our midfield needs improving and some pace. A CB and another striker too

[Footy-Vill]

Rice, albeit on a limited sample size, has never impressed me much.

Have your tried couscous as an alternative?

[baddowvillans]

So Rice is worth £80m but Jack isn't apparently.  It's a strange world T the moment!

[Gareth]

Declan Rice and £80 million in the same sentence, wow.  Would be funny though to see the response from West Ham fans.  They'd be laying siege on the directors box again if it was football as normal.

If the sentence was ‘Declan Rice is a friend of 80m+ rated Jack Grealish’ then it makes sense

[Risso]

I suppose the thinking is, Rice in a decent team could become like Liverpool's Henderson.  £80m being the new £20m.

[Damo70]

Liverpool Echo ran the story didn't it?

No. It was a spoof site.

Spoof site, spoof twitter, is 2020 a spoof year?

Maybe Dave's post about it being a spoof site was actually a spoof post. I am not paranoid, I know everyone is lying to me.

[Vegas]

We really, really need a new decent central midfielder.  If we don't get one, I think it'll be nearly as stupid as going into last season with just Wesley up front.

Totally agree. After a striker, this was the main priority of the whole summer window for me. If Luiz gets injured on the 6th Oct we’re totally screwed.

[Damo70]

We really, really need a new decent central midfielder.  If we don't get one, I think it'll be nearly as stupid as going into last season with just Wesley up front.

CMF and CB. We're vulnerable in both areas.

Declan Rice can play as a CMF and CB. But for eighty million quid I would expect us to clone him so he could play in both positions at the same time.

[darren woolley]

I agree we do need a midfielder I would like to think we have one lined up and we are just checking our options.

[Risso]

David Gold was on Talksport this morning.  He didn't mention him by name, but basically the money they were bidding for Tarkowski was all they had. The skint pricks.

[Dave]

Rice is a good player, not sure he is worth that much but could be their midfield lynchpin for years like Lampard was.

Apparently they want him to play him at centre-back.

[placeforparks]

David Gold was on Talksport this morning.  He didn't mention him by name, but basically the money they were bidding for Tarkowski was all they had. The skint pricks.

sounds like gold and sullivan are trying to sell, and it's all they're prepared to spend.

west ham spent big last couple of seasons, and most of them were in playing in the caribou cup last night!

haller - £45m
felipe anderson - £35m
fornals - £25m
diop - £22m
bowen - £19m
yarmolenko - £18m