After witnessing the lumbering performance of West Ham’s youngest, fit again first choice striker yesterday against Brighton, the alarm bells must bringing loud and clear to Tim Steidten. Michael Antonio’s season-long recovery made it all the more vital that Fullkrug produces – apart from faded and jaded Danny Ings there is only the ‘Bowen’ shaped ‘plan B’.
The clear fact is that West Ham without Bowen playing centrally carry no goal threat. That cannot be allowed to remain the status quo for the remainder of the season. When The Hammers are linked with new strikers there is relief at the likelihood of any reinforcements arriving in January: Most recently mentioned – again – now closer to the January window is Brazilian Igor Jésus.
This 23 year old striker has made his international debut in green and gold and scored on his debut against Chile. Tbrfootball.com reported on Friday that “West Ham are running background checks on Botofago’s number 10.He is most certainly on their [West Ham’s] list of January targets.”
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Their article was headed “West Ham step up interest in £30m forward who thinks he’s ‘quite similar’ to Vinicius Jr”. We can but hope. After the offer made and rejected for fellow Brazilian Yuri Alberto West Ham have to unearth a January frontman from somewhere.