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Terrible news for West Ham with Tottenham in a strong position to sign £13m powerhouse in the summer transfer window

Submitted by daniel on Sat, 29/06/2024 - 14:04

So it seems like West Ham United could be dealt a very big blow by Tottenham Hotspur in the summer transfer window.

West Ham boss Julen Lopetegui has plenty of key issues to solve this summer, but Tottenham could scupper one of his key plans.

The summer transfer window is a vital one for the Hammers boss, and he’s said to be prioritising two signings right now – Max Kilman and Jonathan David.

Whilst they would both be fantastic additions for West Ham, they won’t nearly be enough on their own to transform us into top six challengers.

One area of the pitch that I think is going under the radar when it comes to positions that need strengthening is our central midfield department.

The Hammers are a team that desperately lacks any kind of energy, power or athleticism in the middle of the park.

Lopetegui needs to bring in some competition and cover for Edson Alvarez but also someone with a completely different profile to the Mexico international.

And that’s what makes the latest transfer claim so frustrating…

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Tottenham set to deal West Ham summer transfer window blow

The Hammers and Spurs are fierce Premier League rivals.

They had the better of us on the pitch last season, taking four points from the two league encounters.

And it seems like they could be set to get the better of us once again this summer, this time in the transfer market.

Tutto Juve claim that Spurs are leading the race to sign Youssouf Fofana from Monaco this summer.

The Hammers have been regularly linked with a move to sign the France international over the past year or so, and were quoted just £13 million for his signature a couple of weeks back.

What an unbelievable steal that would be in this day and age.

The 25-year-old has an enviable physique, but he’s not all about pace and power, far from it in fact.

The Frenchman is very good with the ball at his feet. He has been described as an ‘unreal’ midfielder by Monaco’s official website.

In 32 games for Monaco last season, Fofana bagged four goals and four assists. During those appearances, he averaged 1.9 tackles, 1.2 interceptions and one clearance per game (Who Scored).

With his pace, power, energy, dynamism and athleticism, the Monaco midfielder would be the perfect additions to the Hammers’ midfield ranks this summer.

For just £13 million, bringing him to the London Stadium should be an absolute no-brainer for Lopetegui in my opinion.

Unfortunately for West Ham though, it seems like Tottenham are in pole position to sign Fofana in the summer transfer window.

Spurs pounce on unrest to try and derail West Ham move for number one target

Submitted by daniel on Sat, 29/06/2024 - 09:55

Spurs have pounced on unrest to try and derail a West Ham move for Tim Steidten’s number one summer target.

New Hammers head coach Julen Lopetegui and technical director Tim Steidten could be forgiven for being sick of rivals Tottenham Hotspur already this summer.

It seems whichever way West Ham turn in search of new signings, Spurs appear on the scene.

Lopetegui and Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou have both made it clear to their bosses they need several signings this summer.

There will undoubtedly be mutual targets between the two London clubs.

But West Ham could be forgiven for feeling Tottenham are actively watching and rivalling Steidten’s transfer activity.

Hammers and Tottenham rivalry spills into transfer market

West Ham have been heavily linked with Dominic Solanke this summer.

But after reports emerged, Daniel Levy was suddenly being linked with a move to lure Solanke to Spurs instead.

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Tottenham then reportedly tried to hijack West Ham’s move to sign key Lopetegui target Youssef En-Nesyri.

The two clubs are rivalling one another for Ivan Toney.

And Tottenham even took things a step too far by making an approach for Jarrod Bowen which West Ham told Hammers News was ‘delusional’.

Well now Spurs have pounced on unrest to try and derail West Ham’s move for Steidten’s number one target.

Spurs pounce on unrest to derail West Ham’s Wesley move

The first player West Ham tried to sign this summer was Corinthians star Wesley Gassova.

Steidten flew to Brazil as his first order of business and was working on a £20m deal for the Brazil Under 20 attacker.

The move hit a wall and West Ham signed Wesley’s fellow Brazil teen sensation Luis Guilherme from Palmeiras instead.

But two weeks ago the Hammers reignited a move for Wesley as they continued their search for a new left-sided attacker.

Since then serious unrest has erupted at Corinthians with fans storming the club’s training ground.

Supporters are angry about the team’s underperformance so far as they sit in the relegation zone after 12 games.

The unrest has seen several of the club’s star players linked with moves away.

And Spurs are trying to take advantage it seems by moving to sign Wesley before West Ham.

Italian side Napoli are also linked but have seen a bid rejected and according to Area Napoli cannot compete with the interest from Premier League duo West Ham and Tottenham.

Spurs to submit Wesley bid in July

The report states Corinthians want £25m for Wesley plus -essentially – a huge sell-on fee as they only want to give up 50 per cent of the star’s rights.

Worryingly for the Hammers, it claims West Ham will not go higher than their £20m and that has left the door open for Spurs, who almost certainly will with the north Londoners ready to make an official bid in July, the new PSR period.

“The contenders for Wesley have increased, with three Premier League clubs Nottingham Forest, West Ham and Tottenham – who have entered the race,” the report states.

“(That is) further increasing the price: the former have put 25 million on the table, being told that, for that amount, Corinthians now only wants to give away 50% of the player’s rights.

“The Hammers didn’t go beyond 20; the Spurs, however, could present their proposal in July. In any case, the Sao Paulo company also intends to secure at least 10% on resale.”

West Ham and Tottenham fans can see what Wesley might bring to their side in the video below.

West Ham hijack £30m Tottenham move to sign explosive no.10

Submitted by daniel on Thu, 27/06/2024 - 12:53

So West Ham United could be about to deal a very big blow indeed to Tottenham Hotspur this summer.

Julen Lopetegui arrived at the London Stadium earlier this summer, and now the West Ham manager is set to throw a real spanner in the works for Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou it seems.

The Hammers gaffer has £90 million to spend this summer, excluding player sales, according to a top football finance expert.

That’s hardly a lavish war-chest in this day and age, but if Lopetegui manages to move on the likes of Nayef Aguerd, Danny Ings, Michail Antonio and Flynn Downes, he should have a significant amount of cash to spend.

And it seems like the West Ham manager is ready to blow a large chunk of that budget on one player who Tottenham are said to be in for.

The East London outfit need to bolster our attacking ranks desperately this summer, in spite of the recent signing of Luis Guilherme.

The addition of someone who can play out wide on the left or through the middle and right-footed would be perfect.

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And it seems like Spurs now face stiff competition from the Hammers for one of their key attacking targets this summer…

West Ham hijack Tottenham Hotspur’s £30 million move

The Hammers are set to go toe-to-toe with our fiercest rivals in the Premier League for a truly elite player this summer.

According to Caught Offside, West Ham have entered the £30 million race to sign Genoa attacker Albert Gudmundsson in the summer transfer window.

The Hammers have been heavily linked with a move to sign the supremely talented forward on numerous occasions in the past.

Calcio Genoa are suggesting that the winger is a prime target for Tottenham, but the north London outfit won’t have things all their own way now.

The 27-year-old is exactly the kind of signing the Hammers should be looking to make this summer in my opinion.

Total Football Analysis Magazine once described the Icelandic star as a player with ‘explosive ability’.

Gudmundsson was sensational for Genoa last season, and bagged an impressive 16 goals and five assists in 37 games.

The 37-capped Iceland international can play anywhere along the front-line but is at his best when operating in the number 10 role or out on the left wing.

He possesses incredible technical ability and is very quick along the ground. £30 million seems like a fair price to pay for the Genoa star.

Now, if we are to sign him, I strongly believe that Lucas Paqueta will have to be moved on first, in order to raise the funds needed for the 27-year-old and to create space for him in the team.

Whether that happens or not remains to be seen but regardless, I think the Genoa ace would be a fine addition for the Hammers.

And if West Ham manage to hijack Tottenham’s deal to sign Gudmundsson this summer, it will be all the sweeter.

West Ham respond after worrying claim about Spurs move for Jarrod Bowen

Submitted by daniel on Wed, 26/06/2024 - 12:13

West Ham have responded after a worrying claim about a Spurs move for star man Jarrod Bowen in the summer transfer window.

West Ham are well used to seeing their best players leave. But certainly not for bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Not since the dark days of seeing Hammers academy graduates Jermain Defoe and Michael Carrick sold at ridiculously low fees to Spurs.

Heading into the summer transfer window West Ham fans were fully expecting to see Brazilian star Lucas Paqueta sold to Man City for £85m.

But the FA officially charging the playmaker has likely put paid to that, thus limiting West Ham’s transfer budget as a result.

So when journalist Graeme Bailey claimed yesterday that Tottenham Hotspur have made an approach to West Ham for Jarrod Bowen, nerves were rattled.

Tottenham’s Bowen approach rattles West Ham’s nerves

Some were concerned selling Bowen might just be a possibility given the club’s inability to sell Paqueta at this time.

Others were simply offended that Tottenham would even bother wasting their time asking the question for West Ham’s star player and talisman.

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Especially as Bowen signed a new SEVEN YEAR deal only last season and said he wants to retire at West Ham.

Bailey originally told HITC – and has now since reiterated to Hammers News – that Tottenham made an enquiry about signing Bowen at the ‘highest levels’ between the rivals.

Essentially that suggests Spurs chief Daniel Levy contacted West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady, majority owner David Sullivan or technical director Tim Steidten about a deal for Bowen.

Bailey stated the Lilywhites saw that approach swiftly rejected by the Hammers who told Spurs they would have to stump up £150m for West Ham to even consider the sale.

Now West Ham have responded after a worrying claim about the Spurs move for Bowen.

West Ham respond to Spurs move for Bowen claim

The top spokesman inside West Ham United has spoken exclusively to Hammers News about Tottenham’s approach for Bowen.

And the good news is the key senior contact is as incredulous as most West Ham fans about Spurs’ ‘deluded’ enquiry.

“It is delusional rubbish Spurs could sign Jarrod,” the West Ham spokesman told Hammers News.

“Let me make this perfectly clear. He is not for sale.”

Ange Postecoglou may well want Bowen. Who wouldn’t?

Delusional Spurs wasted their time

He is everything that is good about West Ham.

But besides the fact he simply isn’t for sale and Tottenham wasted a phone call, they would have to go through Bowen’s father-in-law to be first.

Can you honestly imagine Bowen sitting down with West Ham fanatic Danny Dyer and telling him that he is signing for the second biggest rivals Spurs?

It is great to see West Ham delivering such an emphatic response.

Gone are the days the Hammers would entertain selling a key player to Tottenham.

The fact Spurs even enquires only serves to feed the perception that the north London club has delusions of grandeur about their status and standing.

While Bowen is still revelling in helping West Ham win major silverware just last summer, Tottenham’s wait goes on.

He would undoubtedly help that cause if Spurs did ever somehow manage to get Bowen in the door.

That, as West Ham have now made clear, is never going to happen.

West Ham and Tottenham mash up England flag spotted at EURO 2024 means one thing

Submitted by daniel on Tue, 25/06/2024 - 21:48

Who would have thought it? A West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur mash up England flag at EURO 2024.

Wow, just wow is all I can say. Ahead of the England vs Slovenia EURO 2024 clash out in Germany this evening, I witnessed something absolutely awful.

West Ham and Tottenham are sworn enemies and due to the absence of Millwall in the Premier League, the north London outfit are definitely our fiercest rivals right now.

Former Hammer Trevor Sinclair explained why the West Ham and Tottenham fans simply don’t get along recently:

“For West Ham fans, from my experience when I was at the football club, it’s edging towards hatred,” Sinclair said when explaining the rivalry.

“They’re very close (geographically), they were closer obviously where Upton Park was, but the fans live amongst each other in that east-north-east and Essex area of the country.”

“There’s a huge rivalry, certainly for West Ham fans, because they do feel that Tottenham are a bit flash and they think they’re the bees knees and they always love to beat them.”

And current West Ham Sporting Director Mark Noble actually alluded to that as well, when speaking to TNT Sports.

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Those kind of rivalries are what make football so great in my opinion. It’s impossible to generate any kind of passion or intensity without it.

Maybe it’s just not that way anymore though.

Those last two words – passion and intensity – are things that the current England team have been totally devoid of under Gareth Southgate out in Germany.

After two poor performances against Serbia and Denmark respectively, many thought that Southgate would make some big changes for the Slovenia clash.

In addition to that, the England fans expected a big reaction from the players. Neither of those two things happened in the end.

In fact, it was a display that was symbolic of something truly shocking that was spotted in the stands at The RheinEnergieSTADION.

West Ham and Tottenham England flag spotted at EURO 2024

Whilst the Three Lions improved slightly in the second-half against Slovenia, it was still a really drab all-round performance.

Southgate has his work cut-out if he is to get this squad of players anywhere near the quarter-finals, let alone win the tournament.

However, England’s lethargic performance was nowhere near the worst thing on display out in Cologne.

Check this out – a picture of an England flag adorned with the crests of both West Ham and Tottenham:

Words fail me they really do.

England flag spotted in Germany means one thing

The picture above proves one thing to me, and that’s that football is officially dead.

Long gone are the days of fierce tribalism that induced such intense atmospheres at games.

The fans of yesteryear have been replaced by a new breed of neutrals who seem to switch teams when the wind changes.

I don’t like it one bit. The West Ham and Tottenham mash up flag spotted out in Germany at EURO 2024 tonight signalled the end of a glorious era for me.

I cannot believe we’ve reached a point where fans of the Hammers and Spurs are buddying up whilst travelling away with England.

This is a game I simply do not recognise at times now, and I long for the day when normal service is resumed!

Major breaking development in battle between West Ham and Spurs for striker Ivan Toney

Submitted by daniel on Mon, 17/06/2024 - 14:34

Major breaking development in battle between West Ham and Spurs - Hammers News - West Ham United FC

There has been a major breaking development in the battle between West Ham and Spurs for striker Ivan Toney.

West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur are going head-to-head to sign Brentford star Ivan Toney this summer.

Both the Hammers and Spurs are sorely in need of a new striker.

New West Ham head coach Julen Lopetegui and Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou have made it clear to their bosses they want a new forward in the door.

That has put West Ham and their fierce rivals Spurs on a collision course in the transfer market.

The Irons reportedly held a secret meeting with the family of Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke over a move.

But no sooner had those claims emerged, than Daniel Levy was suddenly being linked with a move to lure Solanke to Tottenham instead.

West Ham and Spurs in for same striker targets

Tottenham are even said to be trying to hijack West Ham’s move to sign key Lopetegui target Youssef En-Nesyri.

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Hammers News reported 10 days ago on claims of another battle between West Ham and Tottenham – this time for Ivan Toney.

It was claimed Spurs were readying a first official bid for the Brentford and England forward.

There was great news for both clubs at the weekend when it emerged Arsenal have pulled out of the race after a meeting with Toney went pear-shaped.

Now there’s a major breaking development in the battle between West Ham and Spurs for striker Toney.

Because that bid we reported on has been submitted and Tottenham have an answer.

Major development as West Ham and Spurs battle for Toney

Spurs have looked to beat West Ham to Toney by lodging an official offer of £40m according to Football Transfers.

But the race is still wide open because the bid has been rejected by Brentford.

Worryingly for West Ham, though, the report claims Toney has agreed in principal via intermediaries to personal terms with Tottenham.

Toney is still very much in play, though, for the Hammers after Tottenham’s bid was snubbed.

Further bad news for West Ham – and indeed Spurs – is that Brentford reportedly want around £55m to sell the forward, who turns 29 next season.

Football Transfers claims sources have told them Tottenham have the financial capacity to outbid West Ham for Toney.

On the face of it West Ham have £80m of their £100 summer budget remaining.

Should Hammers push boat out for £55m Toney?

But as Hammers News reported last week, the £100m transfer kitty claim looks to be a red herring with West Ham among the best placed in the entire Premier League regarding PSR.

It’s highly unlikely West Ham would rival Spurs up to £55m, though.

Even if it is guaranteeing you one of the best strikers in the Premier League.

The Hammers are working to a new recruitment strategy under Tim Steidten which is focused on signing players aged between 18 and 25 at around the £15-25m mark.

With six or seven signings planned, blowing half the budget on one doesn’t make sense for West Ham.

Tottenham are planning to offload Richarlison and others in their own shake-up.

News of Brentford rejecting Tottenham’s £40m opening bid may have been on West Ham’s radar at the weekend.

Because a report emerged claiming the Irons are moving for a Spanish forward, which in light of this news, may be as an alternative to Toney.