Summer 2013 silly season

The stories of bids for Wilfred Bony and that Titus Bramble is training with us has led to reports in the Daily Mail, Sky Sports News and Talksport that we are looking to sign Wilfred Bramble.

JulianDicksLeftKnee wrote:The stories of bids for Wilfred Bony and that Titus Bramble is training with us has led to reports in the Daily Mail, Sky Sports News and Talksport that we are looking to sign Wilfred Bramble.

  

wonder who we are after?

David Gold ‏@DavidGoldWHU 1h
“@whulou: DG are you and david dealing with additions to the squad while the team are in cork?

Yes we are away in France as we speak. dg

Are they scouting for Newcastle?

anyone heard of this bloke?

West Ham set to launch bid for Estudiantes striker Duvan Zapata
Sky Sports understands West Ham United are set to launch a bid for Duvan Zapata, one of the most highly-rated young players in South America.

The 22-year-old striker is currently with Argentine giants Estudiantes and a host of clubs have been tracking the £10million-rated marksman.

Borussia Dortmund, Lyon, Besiktas and Benfica have all shown an interest in the Colombian, who scored 14 goals last season in the Argentine top flight.

However, West Ham - who have strong links in South America - have been keeping tabs on Zapata for a number of months and they have now decided to make a move for the powerful 6ft 2in front-man.

Zapata is yet to make his full debut for Colombia, but it is believed he will be part of their squad before next summer's World Cup finals, which they are on course to qualify for.

Zapata is being tipped to become the next Colombian to break into European football following on from the likes of Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez, who began on the same career path from their homeland, to Argentina and then Europe.

£6.7m fee agreed, allegedly. Youtube clip here:

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going by that you tube clip
big strong lad
knows where to hang about in the box too

Looks a bit cumbersome to me. Does he look any better than Carlton Cole? Not to me

We have strong links in South America???  

alfiehammer wrote:We have strong links in South America???  

Nor now Wally Downed is no longer at the club.

FFS titus bramble is in the starting xi against Cork  

Campo wrote:FFS titus bramble is in the starting xi against Cork  

AAArgghh!!! I'm having a nightmare, wake me up someone PLEASE!! 

Tony P wrote:Looks a bit cumbersome to me. Does he look any better than Carlton Cole? Not to me

That's what I thought, looks just like Carlton .....not a good omen at all.

We getting rid of Maiga then? Spent about the same on him and barely featured. One of Sam's failures there!!

We need a big boy up front option instead of Carrol when injured but £22m+ on two similar style players who will not feature together is a huge sum for our club.

Not been about for a few days, been watching Wimbledon, and I come back to this!   

Downing and Dorrans are todays daily waffle

Serbian international midfielder Zdravko Kuzmanovic.

We tried for Dorrans a couple of seasons ago and he wasn't interested in joining us, don't see it as an upwards move for him from the baggies. No ta for Downing IMO vastly overated, what we have is as good on the wings.

did not see this one coming

Jack Sullivan ‏@jsullivanwhu 1h
I am sorry to announce the 'young player' we were trying to sign was Gerard Deulofeu who has decided to go to Everton over us

thank feck
Bramble heading to millwank

Campo wrote:thank feck
Bramble heading to millwank

  Double bonus!! we scrape him off , and the Pikeys get lumbered!! 

Loving your take on this SOI

Campo wrote:Serbian international midfielder Zdravko Kuzmanovic.

One for the name on shirt sales. And a Scrabble score of 12, 057

On Wikipedia it says Duvan Zapata's current club is West Ham! From what I saw, he looks a good finisher. And 22 years old, not 32!

still disappointed we couldn't find the funds to buy bony. think he will do very well for swansea