With one day left until the January window closes, West Ham have been offered the opportunity to sign an exciting Argentinian talent for £30m.
David Moyes and Tim Steidten have done some fantastic business for the Hammers over the past couple of windows, and another decent addition this week could give the squad the impetus it needs in their chase for Europa League glory and a finish in the Champions League positions.
Whether the club feel that Valentin Carboni, an 18-year-old Inter Milan player on loan at Monza, is worth that sort of spend right now in a league he’s never played in before will be known once the window closes.
Arguably, this isn’t the time to be taking a gamble.
Whilst Carboni’s talent appears obvious, to bring him into a pressure cooker atmosphere and expect him to hit the ground running is perhaps a little too much to ask.
According to Inter Live, the East Londoners have actually made two bids for the player of €10m/£8.5m and €15m/£12.8m.
That the Neroazzurri are demanding €35m/£30m would seem to suggest that they’re either unwilling to sell Carboni at all, or at least want to make life a little more difficult financially for prospective suitors.
The summer seems a better time for a deal to go through for all concerned.
It is unbelievable that WH can be at least one/two strikers short of a squad for nigh 2 YEARS and not make concrete plans for Jan 1st and this window opening. NO planning, no preparation and so it looks like we targeted the wrong #9’s at the last minute and will end up with Zilch. We might finish in the 7-9 range but not top 6 without a goal-scorer
I hear you Andy but Bowen and Kudus between them aren’t doing too bad a job at filling the gap. There is no doubt this has become a massive problem for us though, we just can’t seem to find a CF that Moyes likes.
You fans need to listen to Bowens interview. He has stated to Moyes he wants to be our go to striker, who are we to argue, leave the managing to Moyes and the decisions of where our main goal scorer wants to play to further his career, as he is doing a sound job.
Same old story talk talk and more talk then it’s too late we need a striker and a winger plus a defender so you know who you want to sign so get on with it instead we hang on and on in hope of a better deal and end up with not getting the players in we need and that comes with a price it puts the rest of our season in doubt really not good enough COYI
We need to sell first to balance the books or sure we can just get a points deduction! We are doing fantastic ATM, hopefully we will keep moving forward!
Shambles
We could lose tim steidten in the summer as Liverpools director is leaving and he must be frustrated that Moyes like older premiership players.
I would rather lose Moyes.
the problem isn’t Moyes, it is, and always has been Sully & his Razzle Dazzle low-ball bids “We tried!” LOL
Agreed!
Fair enough. If Inter Milan believe he is worth £30mil. that’s their prerogative.
It was only a few months ago, West Ham were demanding £100mil PLUS for a defensive midfielder? (And got it)
It seems like everyone knows West Ham have CASH and everyone wants some of it!