Graham Potter’s exciting summer is looking more white knuckle, scary-movie genre at present. The lack of incoming transfers with a week to go is bad enough: Some of the names whom West Ham are considering for late recruitment to the claret and blue cause are enough to sour fans’ bank holiday Monday completely.
It seems there’s no end to the lists of new names being thrown up. The talent pool is getting very empty as sensible clubs did their business months ago. A look at a couple of the latest midfielder names linked this morning is enough to warrant further despair.
Tottenham’s Yves Bissouma, claims TBRFoorball.com this morning, is suddenly on the agenda for a West Ham transfer. This is the same Bissouma who “ Missed the UEFA Super Cup final due to disciplinary reasons and the midfielder appears to have fallen out of favour with Thomas Frank.”
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Persistent lateness, apparently.
If that isn’t a red flag waving frantically for Potter, Macaulay and Sullivan, I don[t know what is. ‘Headstrong’ Alvarez has just been shipped out by Graham Potter – the absolute last thing the Hammers need right now is another discipline ticking time bomb. Salvaging something from the premier League season will be tough enough.
In the same vein, Adrien Raibot – Marseille’s free signing of last summer – is now being kicked out of the French side for fighting with Jonathan Rowe -another player from his own team in what apparently resembled ‘an English bar room brawl! Whilst his feistiness would be well received by West Ham fans who looked on with horror as the Irons meekly capitulated without a raised eyebrow against Chelsea, another firebrand grafted into the team with his own disciplinary issues is likely going to do nothing for morale. I’d rather see a firebrand than a loafer, to be honest.
In any case the meek West Ham manager seems to have done everything to offload the big, brash characters as he clearly sees them as a threat – Kudus and Alvarez would speak to that narrative: Potter seems to like everyone quietly humming away to his hymn sheet even if it means a thrashing. In a positive management-speak kind of way.