West Ham United's transfer strategy: What is the plan? | Steidten & Lopetegui to spend big?

Geo catches up with Frankie as they discuss all things West Ham including the Hammers transfer strategy as there are plenty of rumours including Max Kilman but nothing too exciting, is this an issue?
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[@paunixon]

I'm not excited for Kilman at anything over 30m. Think Steiden can find younger players who are as good from other leagues for less with far better sell on potential. With FFP, that is the only way forward if you want to maintain or increase your transfer budget and grow as a club within the new financial structure. Guilherme is the right direction.

[@damiandamico4715]

Guilherme is the right direction if he plays. You cant have 25 million pounds worth of assets on the bench for where we are as a club. IMO.

[@derelict06]

You have to have a mix, a squad full of teenagers with little top level experience is not gonna perform well. Not saying Kilman is the answer, but ya gotta have some signings of that type

[@BlueMarbleRider]

⁠ we already have a mix-in fact we’ve got an aged squad. The last thing we need to do right now is by 27 and 28-year-olds we have plenty of 27-28-year-olds 32-year-olds 33-year-olds 34-year-olds! Get some youth in you saw how slow we were last season didn’t you?

[@jeffery8792]

Oh shut up.

[@paunixon]

@@jeffery8792 I didn't say we shouldnt get older players, just that 30+ mill is too much for kilman - there's better out there in other leagues for less. ans kilman to west ham as captain - no way. Alvarez for me.

[@harry2bells]

Wes Fothringham. A player I look forward to never ever seeing in a West Ham shirt! Might be worth a bet . Will he get a game/ start in goal? Maybe Paqeta might know

[@lezlane1018]

I thought the idea to get new players in early was so that they could bed in early for pre season.

[@FvdE-7]

All the Players who aren't on International duty are on Holiday aren't they?

[@garrycrawford4746]

This is west ham and sullivan so not expecting anything great so will not be disappointed.

[@elduderino7767]

Pretty obvious to me that we are focusing on free agents at the moment In a few weeks as that pool depletes and our targets decide their future we'll have a better idea of what positions we need to prioritise and spend big on This is what a competent window looks like

[@rogercooke4589]

100 million is not a "generous budget" ,since selling Rice we have kept selling and have recouped more than we have spent,wheres the money gone?

[@jack.0708]

We spent most of the rice money on kudus and Alvarez

[@rogercooke4589]

@@jack.0708 wheres the scamacca ,fornals,benrahma,kehrer money?wheres the budgeted transfer budget money from last summer,january and this summer?wheres the TV money from the premier league? Wheres the additional revenue generated by europe? If we have no actual money to spend we should have never left upton park!

[@philwill0123]

Roger, there is no doubt we have closer to 150m, but not worth telling everyone this is our budget, or people increase the prices just for West ham

[@rogercooke4589]

@@philwill0123 I guess lets see,I gather we are soon to announce profits of over 360million in our next accounts so something is very off

[@edavis6077]

We lost money on all those players

[@Joan-COYI]

Loving these weekly conversations.

[@johnmiles899]

Good show !

[@tobygould5987]

Alexander Bah was the player that Slavia Prague replaced Coufal with when he came to us. Benfica got him from there. We've even been loosely linked with in the past as well. Very handy player who had injury issues this season at Benfica but has a lot of class about him.

[@westhamunited67]

We need another craig Dawson Low transfer fee absolute warrior.

[@edavis6077]

There’s major tournaments going on. Why is anyone expecting anything to happen yet

[@HammersChat]

‘Cos Lopetegui wanted apparently wanted 4 done by 1/7. We’ll have 2 done though.

[@damiandamico4715]

I'm not sure we're gonna get this window right, if I'm honest. One thing I will say about Moyes, he always targeted the actual needs of the group. He may not of looked far afield and subsequently paid over the odds but Steidten just seems to be too focussed on the quality of player rather than the needs of the group. We do get linked to gems but I want gems for areas of the pitch we need. Still not convinced Steidten didn't go out to Brazil to get Wesley (an inverted left winger which we desperately need) and ended up bringing Guilherme home (a left-footed winger, which we already have 2 of the best 5 in the country) just so not to come back empty handed. This Kilman deal needs to be done in correlation with Aguerd as well. If we pay 15 odd million more for Kilman than we sell Aguerd for, I struggle to see that as good business. Attacking areas are not where you go bargain shopping. You can get a cheap CB ( as long as they have the right profile... Dawson is a good example of that), you can get a cheap RB (Coufal being a good example) but you are going to have to pay the piper for a CF. There are some good deals out there because of transfer clauses, but you need to go and get them done. Simon Banza, 38 million, Boom. Pay him a proper wage like you clowns did Danny Ings, you get a CF and gain Antonio as a player to use elsewhere. Whether that's LW, backup CF, or even right back. I'd sooner payout for attacking talent than defenders. Our problems defensively last season didn't necessarily sprout from the players in the back line, it sprouted from Moyes picking a midfield who didn't break up play.. Namely, showing favoritism to JWP. Seems all over the place at the moment, if I'm honest. I'd rather pay over the odds for players we need than get good deals on players we don't. I will make my mind up at the end of the window, but in the words of Castillo "It's not looking good, brav!"

[@damiandamico4715]

13:39: CENTRE... FORWARD!!! Then you adjust your attacking talent around the that.

[@derelict06]

“Moyes always targetted our needs” 😂😂😂

[@damiandamico4715]

@@derelict06 Oh, cry more. Give me an example of a player who wasn't bought for a specific purpose. Or are you one of those people who think they are right as long as the comment criticizes Moyes? That's the problem with the majority of the fan base. They have no clue about anything technical so there 'go to' is.. Oooh, Moyes bad... Oooohh, Sullivan Bad. Come with something better than that, you sheep. BAAAAAAA!!!

[@damiandamico4715]

If im honest. A LWer is still the one i'd go for first.

[@ASOXO]

I'm starting to get worried. We're in talks to sell Alvarez but then there is separate news that we're looking to sell Downes too? We have 5 players..... Paper thin squad... guys.. what are we doing?

[@paullucas3684]

We will not have paid the whole JWP fee yet. So let's offer him to Southampton in exchange for Walker-Peters. WP going into the final year of his contract so there is a good deal to be had here.

[@ironix1]

Investment is nice, players for the future are fine, but we do need to start acquiring some quality that can replace our aging players and who will start on the ground running in our first team. I'm not a fan of this expensive striker idea that will supposedly will cure our problems. I much prefer quality midfielders that can all score, so when our 'striker' becomes injured we can still score goals..

[@jkshanahan007]

Wolves fan here, If you spend anything over 30m for Kilman we've absolutely robbed you. If your looking for leaders on the pitch he's not that. he's a quiet player.

[@grelch]

With Alvarez out for indefinite long time, are we keeping Downes?

[@HammersChat]

I don’t think so

[@user-bs7hc1lp4y]

But is our new young player going to play in the first team? If he is too young we actually haven't signed anyone of note.

[@kramzaid9601]

I dont mind Kilman but there is better out there for 30mil like Calafiori. Prefer either two of these three; Perez, Greaves or O' Brien and could get them in for 30-40mil or 50mil for all three, defence sorted and still fits the model. For defence i can see why J-Lop wants a Prem proven centre back but surely a package of 35mil+ is over paying for Kilman at a time we are on a bit of a budget. Such a fast start to the window and i admit im starting to worry we are dithering a bit and may lose out on some quality bargain deals. In saying that the international window isnt opened yet and maybe thats why theres no official bids for players aroumd Europe

[@user-us5ms4cv5g]

Don't think we will sign many more players, remember Sullivan is in charge, but I suppose it's a little 😅entertaining trying to guess what might happen ,just looked at a pre 2024 season talk ,that was fun😂

[@dannymmahoney6403]

£30m on the Brazilian lad is a massive gamble and i feel we’ve spent most of our budget on him i’m not confident at all about this window

[@AlexSmith-tr7xn]

Let's get ben Johnson signed up

[@HammersChat]

Am certain he’s going to another Prem club, despite some saying he might sign I believe it’s done

[@costahammer48]

I still have a sneaky feeling we’ll sign Zaha for the LW

[@_chris_b_]

I do disagree with Frankie about there being no Captain already at the Club. James Ward-Prowse

[@frankiegoodman7308]

I guess if you want a captain who captained his club to the championship you could throw him in the hat.

[@michaeltaylor1797]

Feel we need a decent backup to Alvarez.

[@FvdE-7]

You not fancying Downes then? Thought he had a good season at Southampton in the Championship?

[@michaeltaylor1797]

Yeah I suppose, but I think he would be a good third choice for further development. Don't trust JWP or Soucek in that position or possibly in a Lopetigui system. Heard rumours, true or false that Lopetigui was going to sanction a move away for him anyway. Maybe he will take a look at him in preseason.

[@willdoyle6952]

We can't afford to lose Emerson, especially when we need so many players as it is. I'm more concerned about our midfield and defence. On paper, we had a very good midfield last season, but the opposition had no problems walking straight through and onto goal.

[@damiandamico4715]

Our midfield is not good on paper. Not for me, anyway. The only way that midfield looked 'decent' is when we played Moyesball with Alvarez and Souceck protecting the back 4 and even then, Kudus played out of position. Should have signed Fofana instead of JWP. JWP needs to be sold this summer, in my opinion. He's not physical enough to protect the back 4 and we have better 10's than him. Ie. Paqueta and Kudus.

[@willdoyle6952]

@damiandamico4715 on paper is the only way our midfield looked good, mate Our midfield needs a rebuild along with our defence, so we really can't be getting rid of one of the few players who was any good

[@damiandamico4715]

@@willdoyle6952 If our midfield is that good, why does it need rebuilding? lol

[@willdoyle6952]

@damiandamico4715 Soucek scored double figures last season, and he's done that a couple of times so far Alvarez is a rock and Utd want him. And there isn't many more experienced midfielders than JWP nor is there any better at set pieces. Any team would love to have any one or all of them but they didn't work for us for some reason last season. Maybe it was Moyes.....

[@MrBzlezl]

There's some good players in the J league also

[@dannyboyboar6320]

I don't think we can sort this moyes car crash out in one transfer window going to need three at least

[@damiandamico4715]

Nope. Not Moyes. Not Sullivan. The budget is the budget. You have assets in the squad as well. It's down to Steidten and Lopetgui to sort it out. Cant keep harping back.

[@Max_Malletus_64]

Can we start getting Real! Keep your favourite 7 current outfield players, add our 3 keepers + 4 academy lads & whaa hey we're still 8 to 10 players short wtf COYI 😮

[@jasonfrost4483]

We’re skint 😂😂😂

[@user-ov9jc5rz6b]

I wish I was on 12 grand a week

[@fortunes95]

Third week of june and because we havnt signed six players yet the "what the fck is going on" brigade get on their high horses, buying footballers isnt like walking round asda popping items in your trolley then going to the checkout, paying for what you owe then off you go, it involves negotiating with clubs, transfer fees and payment terms etc, finding a player that wants to leave his club and join us, negotiating with the player, and dealing with agents, so just relax everyone and let the people entrusted with it all to do their jobs .. in tim we trust!

[@HammersChat]

Tbh I haven’t seen that much complaining, we must follow a lot different people 😂

[@johnjewell1331]

Couldn’t agree more. In prior years we could all be on holiday until the end of July and not miss a thing….

[@markpendleton6492]

Calafiori cursed by ⚒️ links 😂😂

[@damiandamico4715]

He's shit. He aint better than Aguerd. And that's coming from an Italy fan. He's been struggling in a back 5 in the Euros. How do you think he fairs in a back 4 in the PL. I'm Italian, and I can assure you, stats for someone in Serie A do not translate to the EPL.

[@ColinBollin]

No thanks to Callum Wilson or Tammy Abraham

[@markf-whateverittakes]

Does anyone like Jonathan David from Lille?

[@KM-yg1tb]

Frankie’s son has more sense than most England fans…he stopped watching as England are so boring!!!

[@audialiastt2601]

Raheem Sterlin has NOT the player to face up to WH fans, when things go wrong.

[@Foorless26]

There is no plan even Ex said we’re skint

[@garymilburn4511]

Alvarez looks bad Injury,😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@sibeex]

I would rather spend 30+ million on Califiore who is class and wanted by the top teams. Kidman is overpriced and not as good.

[@chrislee1099]

You over spent on kudas ,wolves were buying him at 15mill, How about bowen for kilman, and 15mill cash up front, And 40% sell on clause

[@damiandamico4715]

Califiore.. world class??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@johncampbell9104]

When is are sleeping giant going to rise we've always had triaters supposing to be West ham threw and threw his name is Rio joke 😂 Cole and that fker Lampard won trophies but what a joke of manger not forgetting Defo Belfast Hammer from the age of 9 now I'm 63 fed up listening to the London boy's there loaded now but can't stand them bring back the team of the 70s and 80s true West Ham COYI