Thursday, December 22

We're not getting Sakho in the morning

Diafra Sakho has had surgery on a back injury and will be out for eight to ten weeks. Rather mystifying as he was out with a thigh injury, but it seems the back injury that kept him out all season has flared up. So the Irons have effectively lost Sakho for the whole season, bar his appearances against Spurs and Man United. 

Slaven Bilic certainly looked pretty hangdog at his press conference. Assuming Zaza and Calleri are returned to their clubs we're are now down to Carroll, Ayew and Fletcher as striking options, none of whom has proved prolific, so expect a move for a striker in the transfer window. It's a notoriously difficult time to get a striker, and we've not found a winner since Demba Ba arrived. Though it's probably fair to say WHU have ruled out a move for Robbie Keane… 

Perhaps the best plan would be a loan move for a quality striker out of favour somewhere else, though it's very unlikely West Ham will get the likes of Sturridge, Martial or Rashford. Could be a worrying window.

2 comments:

matt said...

If there's any medical team who can turn a short-term thigh injury into a season-ending back injury, it is West Ham's. My dream transfer window signing would be someone capable of keeping our players fit. With Ayew off the Africa Cup of Nations, we're down to the injury plagued Carroll and Fletcher, who has never scored a Premier League goal. Sullivan has signed 32 strikers so far, and all have been useless, injury prone or usually both. He always goes for the cheap option. I'm not holding my breath. We'll get the usual promises of a marquee 25-goal a season striker, we'll be linked with a serious of decent players, and then 2 minutes before the window closes we'll sigh Mido again.

Pete May said...

It's an astonishingly bad record with strikers... have to hope we can unearth a Demba Ba rather than a Benni McCarthy. And even rumours of a bid for Defoe…