Exciting upcoming transfers!!!

[Robbie8912]

My dad has a contact who has a friend who spoke with Lucas Neil in upton park about transfers. Apparently Neil is a complete classy gentleman but the point I'm making is that neil said that the club was working on targets that would REALLY excite the hammers fans. I can't wait! I believe it because eggy ALSO said something like this not 8 days ago!!!

[norwaytips]

My brother told me the same thing; well almost, and his contact is normally very reliable too. Ex Hammer and England star, they've been mates since college days and still have dinner at each others houses about once a month.
I have no idea who they are working on, though I suspect this Argie guy may well be the one. God, but I hope so.:cool:

[claret50]

I read today that Arsenal are now interested in Tevez as a replacement for Henry, any truth in this rumour?

[norwaytips]

I read today that Arsenal are now interested in Tevez as a replacement for Henry, any truth in this rumour?

Not heard it Brian and I doubt that they have the money. We've got more chance than the gunners I would think.

[Hawaiian Hammer]

I read today that Arsenal are now interested in Tevez as a replacement for Henry, any truth in this rumour?

Just paper speculation Claret, Arsenal have a useful youngster named Walcott ready to break into the first team.

[Robbie8912]

Bleh!!! Carlos to Arsenal? Thats worse than mascherano to liverscuzz. Arseing Wanker can bug off

[speedy808]

A lot of the underground speculation has centered on Riquelme, which, coupled with a solid offer to Tevez, might make for a nice pair of acquisitions.

We'll soon see...!

[hammer_scout51]

Eggy was in Argentina recently everyone believes he has a bid in for Riquelme. Also supposedly spoke to SWP on the way back. Whether true or a smokescreen only time will tell.
The other tip is we are not the 2nd team in for Nugent and have not yet made a bid.
I have been hoping to see Lucas with his dad at my boys teams club house. Unfortunately the weather has been so bad that the grounds have been under water for 3 weeks.
Hopefully he will be here for another couple of weeks and get to the club house. If it ever stops raining. His 1st Australian shirt signed is framed and has pride of place on the wall.

[LFCfan07]

ha... ha... ha...?? tevez... keep dreaming....:D

[Panzo]

Riquelme?!? This is madness. I understand the club is trying to be ambitious but this would be too hasty. Mixing Riquelme and Curbishley would make for a bitter drama in the locker room, and not to mention which side Tevez would obviously take in that conflict. Hell, I think Tevez alone would eventually be too much ego for Curbs to manage.

Honestly, I wish West Ham had snatched up Claudio Ranieri when he was available. He would've been the perfect solution to mixing good use of West Ham's youth system with an experienced eye for international talent.

But from what I've read and seen of Curbishley, I think the transfer focus needs to be restricted to available English-speaking talent, particularly youth players and well-disciplined EPL left-overs.

[west_ham]

The only reason that may make the Riquelme rumour believable would be that AC is looking to replace Yossi with another creative player.

Otherwise I expect it's just more paper talk.

[00becks]

I cannot believe how many Hammers transfer rumours there are at the moment- the papers love it. One of the sites I check http://www.hammersheadlines.com (http://www.hammersheadlines.com/) seems to have stories linking so many players to them...Kevin Nolan, Nicky Shorey, Thiago Motta (Barca), Riquelme, Wayne Bridge to name a few.

I can't see Tevez staying at West Ham at the moment. He wants European football and after the last season, noone can be sure how the Hammers will do. I expect them to be much improved but no better than a top ten team. At Inter Milan he won't have such language problems and he will get CL football.

As for Bent I think he is overated at £17 million and Curbishley can spend his money more prudently. How can he be worth that when you consider what the truly brilliant Thierry Henry is worth.

Curbishley should go after Benni McCarthy without a doubt or even Diego Forlan.

[taffhammer]

I cannot believe how many Hammers transfer rumours there are at the moment- the papers love it. One of the sites I check http://www.hammersheadlines.com (http://www.hammersheadlines.com/) seems to have stories linking so many players to them...Kevin Nolan, Nicky Shorey, Thiago Motta (Barca), Riquelme, Wayne Bridge to name a few.

I can't see Tevez staying at West Ham at the moment. He wants European football and after the last season, noone can be sure how the Hammers will do. I expect them to be much improved but no better than a top ten team. At Inter Milan he won't have such language problems and he will get CL football.

As for Bent I think he is overated at £17 million and Curbishley can spend his money more prudently. How can he be worth that when you consider what the truly brilliant Thierry Henry is worth.

Curbishley should go after Benni McCarthy without a doubt or even Diego Forlan.

do you really support sheffield united? you must be the only one who's still talking to us.

[west_ham]

Most of the comments from Sheff Utd fans that I have read have been quite contrary to McCabe's comments. Most of them just want to move on from the whole affair and get on with next season in the CCC.

It just goes to show that these things are all about business and money. When (if) McCabe gets his compensation it will all be over in a whimper.

As for Bent I think he is overated at £17 million and Curbishley can spend his money more prudently. How can he be worth that when you consider what the truly brilliant Thierry Henry is worth.
I think age has so much to do with it nowadays. If a player is 23 then the team he plays for will probably get his best years out of him i.e. he will sign a 4-5 year contract and review his situation again at age 26-27. Also the club can mould him how they like.

This reduces the price tag for older players, even with the likes of Henry. He still has some great football left in him but I think his best days are gone.

With this in mind there was still something of a sigh of relief amongst West Ham fans when Bent didn't sign for that fee. Most of us agree he is not worth £17m (give or take) and signing him for this would have attracted yet more criticism to the club.

The problem we have now is who else can we sign for that position?

I will be interested to see what happens between Bent and Spurms. If he signs then for how much. Also if Defoe really would come to us or turn us down.

[00becks]

do you really support sheffield united? you must be the only one who's still talking to us.

I have suppoirted the Blades for years since Ian Porterfield was the manager back in the early 1980's. As far as the whole dispute over the points and fines etc. I am a realist we were just not good enough during the season and we went into a slump at the end. We only had to beat Wigan or draw and we would have stayed up. Let's face it, the FA need West Ham in the premiership its good for business and they will continue to generate press all over the world between Tevez, Magnusson, Curbishley et al. Unfortunately money really does make the world go round and it definitely does in the Premiership.

[Ami05]

West Ham have a serious problem. They are loosing the players which make the most impact and will now have to rebuild a team around the ones they have.

Benayoun looks like he will ship out in the next couple of days to either chickenpool or man city......http://www.westham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=71011

Tevez is looking for a transfer to Inter or another club over in seria A.

These are two players West Ham should be fighting to keep, by offering more money. You want Tevez along side Ashton, you want Benayoun controlling the midfield and pushing others ahead for a goal. loosing them will be a horrid impact on the club, especially now since Tevez adjusted and scores.

[west_ham]

Some good news on the Tevez front, but only step 1:

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=474297&CPID=8&clid=21&lid=&title=Tevez+'turns+down'+Inter

I think we need to do more than offer players more money. This helps but we need to offer them the prospect of moving forward and challenging for football at a higher level.

If we concentrate only on money we will eventually become a material club and that's not what West Ham are about.

[taffhammer]

I have suppoirted the Blades for years since Ian Porterfield was the manager back in the early 1980's. As far as the whole dispute over the points and fines etc. I am a realist we were just not good enough during the season and we went into a slump at the end. We only had to beat Wigan or draw and we would have stayed up. Let's face it, the FA need West Ham in the premiership its good for business and they will continue to generate press all over the world between Tevez, Magnusson, Curbishley et al. Unfortunately money really does make the world go round and it definitely does in the Premiership.

fair play to you,relegation isn't nice and we should know.but having glanced at more than one sufc forum i think the opinion is a little bit anti west ham.
of course forums don't represent everyone.
i feel i must answer your point about the fa and west ham,not in a angry way just because you seem like a resonable poster,
it's an endless debate but west ham didn't escape a points deduction because of money and generating buisness, the fact was the players were registerd.west ham's crime ,and they were guilty, was that a third party was in a posistion to influence their selection.no club has ever been docked points for that.
hope you come straight back next season.

[taffhammer]

West Ham have a serious problem. They are loosing the players which make the most impact and will now have to rebuild a team around the ones they have.

Benayoun looks like he will ship out in the next couple of days to either chickenpool or man city......http://www.westham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=71011

Tevez is looking for a transfer to Inter or another club over in seria A.

These are two players West Ham should be fighting to keep, by offering more money. You want Tevez along side Ashton, you want Benayoun controlling the midfield and pushing others ahead for a goal. loosing them will be a horrid impact on the club, especially now since Tevez adjusted and scores.

don't panic...
all talk of transfers is to sell newspapers .
believe things when they actually happen.old eggy won't sell anyone till he has a replacment lined up. relax

[LFCfan07]

look, only chance you will secure tevez signature is to bring in world class players, not the bent quality who you cant even attract to join your small club. And not that parker shit either.

Add this, on top of a big rumoured contract. 115,000 geez.