Callum Marshall must be secretly rubbing his hands with glee at the latest disaster to befall West Ham’s front line striker ‘force’. Despite the official word out of West Ham all summer being -from Graham Potter at least – ‘We don’t need a striker‘ – David Sullivan went ahead and signed the much maligned Callum Wilson, to whom most fans are already warming after short cameo appearances. Just as well, as it has turned out.
However, without a new, young, up-and coming-Premier League-ready signing, the Irons were going to spend the next four months relying on the ageing, injury prone duo of Niclas Fullkrug and Wilson – both with red flag injury records having both spent half of last season out.
Youngster Callum Marshall, third in line behind the duo, probably expected to wait until the winter and the number of games mounting up on West Ham’s dad’s army frontline forwards: However, true to prediction, the Hammers are four days past the transfer window closure and disaster has already stricken Niclas Fullkrug who limped off, injured,during the warm up in the Germany v Slovakia fixture last night.
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Bad news for Fullkrug and West Ham, good news for Callum Marshall (main pic) who is himself on international duty with Northern Ireland. The youngster played the last quarter of the game as a substitute as his side ran out 3-1 winners against Luxembourg and next travel to take on ironically, Germany without Fullkrug.
Callum Marshall of West Ham on international duty
Callum Marshall of West Ham on international duty last night
Bulinews.com reports that Fullkrug has withdrawn and already been replaced for the second fixture and will be returning to London for what is claimed to be a ‘calf injury’: The alarm bells will be ringing for Graham Potter as Fullkrug’s last ‘calf injury’ kept him sidelined for three months.
Time to say ‘I told you so”: Desperation stakes could lead to West Ham paying an urgent visit to the ‘free transfer’ shop. Patrick Bamford or good ol’ Michail Antonio on a ‘free’, anyone? It’s enough to make you shake your head in amazement. Not that poor old Niclas is injured, but that nobody thought to look far enough ahead to plan for it.