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To add to the hilarity, the 5th of Jan was only the second working day of the year. You need the NHS to do medicals as well as the various offices that register players internally and externally. King has been a great owner and people worrying about him screwing over Lampard are indulging in...

Andrews needs a loan too, showed some decent glimpses but not yet at the level we’re at so a productive loan again will do him a lot of good!

Dare I say it, Eccles has been better than Rudoni and Torp of late. Credit where it’s due!

Look at most top leagues, the top scorers will have just as many wingers or ‘inside forwards’ amongst them as strikers. In modern football, most teams play 1 striker and therefore, the goal scoring burden typically picked up by two strikers needs to be picked up across the starting 11, hence...

Good, get it done. Great servant for us but he is well past it. Assume we’d only let him go if we can get a LWB as reported by The Guardian or Sky Sports.

To think people were losing their heads when we hadn’t made a signing on the 5th! 😂

Serves them right for treating Moyes so poorly. They’re a club that have delusions of grandeur and this idealised version of ‘the West Ham way’. In my lifetime, they’ve been a shit bottom half Prem club that occasionally goes down. Look at Everton now, they looked a sure bet to go down at some...

I’m pretty sure 4 headers would have had Simms up there with the top ‘headed’ scorers last season. In this respect, the ‘eye test’ has failed a lot of people saying we need a striker to score headers. As you point out, Simms has played half the minutes as Moore and a few contributors said Moore...

Simms has stepped up and credit to him. Lampard needs to put some more trust in him. However, 4 strikers isn’t unusual. You need different profile of player for different scenarios and also as account for injuries. 1 big injury to BTA this season, Wright last season and we look a bit short, even...

I think Keiffer Moore and Simms are tied for most headed goals. Simms was possibly also the top scorer in headers last season too - he was definitely up there. Unless there’s a CB with 5 headed goals in the league somewhere, Moore and Simms are tied.

Quite a lot actually… 5 goals betweeen Simms and BTA. Simms has the same amount of headed goals as Keiffer Moore who some people seem to think would score a bagful of headers under us.

Likewise, though with them signing Johnson and Glasner not fancying him… thought there may be a glimmer of hope. As things stand, Palace do not seem to rate him an he’s been there a year now.

Does anyone know if there is any option/obligation to buy with this loan?

Same as PNE, Southampton and both Ipswich games. All these teams could bring on 5 subs and the quality was pretty similar. We got good striker options but no wingers or AMs to rotate. KKH, Wolf, Lati are all good players for their respective roles but as defenders, will rarely be game changers...

I agreed with you as of this morning. He’s not been out with any injuries this season to be fair but has only averaged 45m per game (same as YMK). A goal every 200 minutes in the Prem is surely too good to turn down for us if this was actually a viable move for us.

He hasn’t scored since October so right now, I wouldn’t be arsed if we sold Haji. The next game or two we need to see more from him.

We’d probably manage his minutes v carefully. Idk, I seem to remember the whole league thinking Deeney signing was a massive coup for Birmingham and he was dire. If there’s a position we could manage his workload, it’s upfront. We’ve got Haji, Simms and BTA already so it’s like Wilson needs to...

I’m sceptical even if we pulled off signing Wilson to be honest. I’d love to find out if it works out because he’s obviously too good for the Championship quality wise. It’s his durability that’s been a problem his whole career unfortunately because he could’ve right up there amongst the best...

It’s a perfect narrative, ‘the return of the prodigal son’. That said, he has one big contract left at a push. I’m not sure there will be many takers given his last last deal at West Ham didn’t work out. It’s risky, if he joins us on a short term deal and he smashes it, he gets a more...

It’s now or never for Wilson returning back to Cov. Both his career and our trajectory as a club are at crossroads and right now is as perfect a time for both parties to get a deal done. Personally, I don’t see it happening but one can dream.