Compared with Graham Potter’s reported reluctance last summer to sign a striker, the winter window coming in ten weeks offers more promise of West Ham finally signing the frontman they’ve been short of, for arguably three seasons.
Antonio’s decline was ignored and the signing of thirty one year old Fullkrug – who’d never played league football outside of the Bundesliga – turned out to be a colossal own goal costing £27 million.
Most recently the loan capture of Evan Ferguson was perhaps the most perplexing, with Potter signing his protege on loan and then ignoring him completely.
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Ironically it is another loan signing that is being talked about again this winter: Joshua Zirkzee of Manchester United doesn’t have the same instant fan-appeal as Ivan Toney: A proven goal scorer with 72 goals for Brentford, Toney has been discounted largely because of his high wages and the huge tax implications of a loan move back to the UK.
However, just this afternoon Sun journalist Alan Nixon makes the sensational claim that West Ham are all over Toney’s situation :
Fresh report today – “West Ham plot Toney deal”
And are already apparently ‘working on a solution’: If true, fans just might get a little excited at the prospect of the 29 year old arriving at London Stadium just in time to dig the Hammers out of a very big relegation – worry shaped hole.
You’d think that West Ham will ‘probably not’ move for Toney in January – but then again…
Toney, for his part, reportedly wants to try and resuscitate his England career, so a six month spell in the Premier League with guaranteed game time could do his prospects for next summer the world of good.
Too early yet for Hammers fans to get their hopes up – there’s still the small matter of Toney’s massive weekly wages to discuss with his current employer. But if true, the development offers real hope of a decent, nay world class, front man strutting his stuff at London stadium.
