With so much happening in the world of West Ham over the past couple of weeks, it had pretty much slipped my mind that we broke a transfer record in the summer.
Mads Hermansen — remember him? Graham Potter’s first choice was signed for £15 million from Leicester City, ahead of John Victor.
The Danish stopper had something of a baptism of fire between the sticks for the Hammers, doing a passable impression of the calamitous Roberto. Poor old Mads was then thrown under the bus by a London Stadium insider who labelled him a waste of money, before the club went and re-signed the released Łukasz Fabiański.
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Now, according to TBR Football, three senior goalkeepers might not be enough for West Ham, with the website linking us with yet another.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen
Do West Ham need another keeper?
TBR claim we’ve been offered the chance to sign Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen on loan in the January transfer window.
The 33-year-old German certainly isn’t lacking in pedigree — but this is where it gets confusing. Ter Stegen suffered a lower back injury last week, confirming he’d be out for three months with a return date of, erm… January.
I’m not entirely sure West Ham need another goalkeeper — let alone an injured one. Perhaps a couple of central defenders and a midfielder who can actually run might make Hermansen, Areola, and Fabiański’s jobs a bit easier, without the need to hire another bloke to guard the onion bag