Bacca Deal
So everyone is still talking about the Bacca deal and as one of my followers pointed out I was repeating the same thing a lot about Payet last year. The situation has not really changed. It does appear that Bacca is trying to play difficult with any deal in order to increase his wages. In a published interview Bacca claimed to have interest from many leagues. He may believe there is all this interest but the bottom line is none of the clubs seem as determined to follow up on their interest as we are. The offer for him is on the table from us. The club believe he is waiting to see if any other offers come in so that he can evaluate those and use them to get more out of the deal. So when accounts claim, “just give him the money”, it really isn’t as simple as that. Any bids coming in for Bacca depend on a domino reaction over Europe with certain clubs signing other targets instead of him. I think we should just sit back and not stress about it and trust that the board will get it right with either Bacca or other targets.
Bacca situation helping with our deals
As I have said in my last few reports the Bacca deal is actually taking the spotlight off other deals that we aim to push through. One of those top targets who I have often spoke about is Calleri. We have had a loan offer in for him for a long time as those who have followed me for a while will remember reading about. There was talk that Spurs were in for him after his dad said so but you will recall I reported that Spurs had no interest. It appears that his club have accepted that he will leave and it just leaves Calleri to decide out of the options which club he prefers. He is a target that we hope to complete. We have seven other offers in for forwards. We expect to get answers from their clubs soon and as we have said for over a month now that player will not be Benteke (to the relief of most fans).
Henry to join the coaching staff
When I asked my top source this he said he hadn’t heard anything at the start of the week. That situation was still the same yesterday and I don’t think it is something we will do. Whilst I think some members of the coaching staff like the idea, there has been no such offer at this point.
Kit Launch
The club are keeping the kit launch on Saturday very secretive. I am lead to believe there will be a number of top players there and there will be some exciting events including a live band and the revealing of stadium features. Everyone involved has had to sign a non disclosure form, so the club obviously believe that it is big.
Thanks to all those getting involved with our forum. It is great to read all your opinions and I hope to join with it all soon.
This Bacca Guy just sounds like a problem already we have done very well over the last two years with players fitting in don’t think this one will, just my opinion ⚒
If Bacca wants to mess around waiting for other clubs then we should tell him to do one. Yes he’s a good player but if he doesn’t truly want to be here do we really want him?
Get Calleri and Ben Yedder. Tell Bacca to do one!
Save a bucketload of cash for the January window when we’re in the top six and have serious CL bargaining power.
Job done.
why dont we just pull out the deal and see what he does then, at his age we shouldnt be paying half as much! especially knowing what we paid for Payet!! and look how he turned out!!! there are better strikers out there, so let focus our attention on them! Increase the offer for Lacazette and just go with it!
Totally agree with previous comments about Bacca . If you don’t want to play for us , fine go play somewhere else. I personally only want to see players willing to embrace West Ham and help push us in the direction we want to go, anyone not interested in this can go do one .⚒⚒
Have we put a bid in for Ben yeder?
I’d love Henry in the coaching a bit like what Teddy was doing when he joined would be a brilliant asset if this happens
I read a Spanish language twitter account about West Ham @whufcMI they have pretty much mirrored your thoughts EX although it suggests he’s looking for £5m per year and not £4m. I guess the plummeting pound ain’t helping us!
Calleri would be a fantastic signing hope lanzini brings him back from the Olympics
Forget Bacca, he only wants money. At his age we could do better by waiting for the next transfer window.
Come on DS, pull out.
These comments (other than cost) could just as easily been made against Payet last year. You have to be patient especially with strikers who usually have an ego as big as a planet and as you go up the quality scale are in far shorter supply. Personally I can’t but feel if we don’t get a free scoring striker we certainly will unlikely be in the top 6 at Christmas to be in any position to throw money about on a striker, assuming any will actually be available. Indeed its our failure to sign one last Summer (the only failing of the window) that probably cost us a Champions League place along with the refs of course. To make the same mistake this Summer would be a serious error. We need patience be it over Bacca and the pursuit of a striker generally but certainly the need for a quality striker plus support is a vital one. Sitting on a previous seasons performance and presuming you can simply repeat it is naive in the extreme.