[West Ham](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham-transfers-hammers-target-complete-midfielder-in-serie-a-raid/) are having to be creative to bring in the talent to fill the skill shortage brought on by contracts ending, loanees returning and players leaving. The transfer budget we are told – if you believe it 0 is minimal and the club have to sell in order to fund purchases.
Or, alternatively, find suitable players to bring in on loan. A season-long loan for **Aaron Ramsdale**, for example, makes a lot of sense for both West Ham and Ramsdale’s parent club Southampton, who will be hoping to bounce straight back to the Premier League. One season for their top stopper away from the club suits them just fine. Ramsdale is reportedly on £100k a week so there’ll be some tough negotiating to bring that together – but definitely ‘do-able’.
_Unlike the stories circulating today that West Ham want to loan Jack Grealish_: [Tbrfootball.com](https://tbrfootball.com/how-jack-grealish-really-feels-about-a-move-away-from-manchester-city-with-newcastle-circling/) suggest that whilst Manchester City are happy to loan him out for a season (now that Pep Guardiola has demanded a smaller squad to work with,) unlike Ramsdale, Grealish’s earnings are amongst the top ten in the Premier League – likely to be at least £300,000 a week.
The equivalent of both West Ham’s top earners’ salaries combined.
And the effect on dressing room morale of a loan player rocking up for duty earning twice what anyone else at the club takes home would be disastrous. _One to be avoided_ even if the Irons could somehow master the art of negotiation and find a way for City to subsidise £200,000 a week of Grealish’s wages.
Let him go to someone who can afford him. Which just at present is certainly not West Ham.