NOW THAT the summer transfer window is closed, the recriminations and regrets can gather like unopened bills on the mantelpiece: Ignore then at your peril. The Hammers took big strides forward in their squad depth, if in a scattergun, haphazard manner that was surely completed through blind panic rather than strategic planning.
No matter, the late additions of **Mateaus Fernandes** and **Soungoutou Magassa** look to add real depth and quality to the midfield. Jarrod Bowen’s own opinion _([talkSPORT](https://talksport.com/football/3525243/jarrod-bowen-west-ham-fans-england-recall-thomas-tuchel/))_ is that the club recruited well :_“We’ve got players in positions now where you look at our squad and we’ve got a good amount of squad depth, and we’ve got good players with good Premier League experience as well.”_
However the glaring omission of another striker may yet get found out as the Hammers begin to deal with [Niclas Fullkrug’s](https://www.claretandhugh.info/disaster-strikes-days-after-window-closes-west-ham-news/) latest injury.
Fortunately the Hammers can still dip into the “free” market to bring in extra depth to a front line now entirely dependent upon the 33 year old Callum Wilson’s fitness.
A return for Michail Antonio, perhaps? Stranger things have happened. West Ham’s former number nine didn’t look good when turning out for the u21’s – but as every month passes by, he’ll surely get fitter, more bulked up again and could possibly do a 20 minute job for Potter each week.
Transfermarkt shows a whole raft of shipwrecked talent- from Patrick Bamford to Emmanuel Dennis, 12 goal Spain international Paco Alcácer and a host of other ‘punts’ that might offer a glimmer of goal scoring threat which could very soon be missing completely from West Ham’s front line. Newcastle already decided that Callum Wilson wasn’t their answer after missing two years out injured in the last five seasons.
It’d be a massive gamble on West Ham’s part to think they can succeed in keeping the striker fit where the Geordies failed.