West Ham boss David Moyes has provided updates on the fitness of Michail Antonio, Felipe Anderson and Andriy Yarmolenko ahead of their trip to Leicester City on Wednesday night via the club’s official website.
The Hammers are currently dealing with an injury crisis making the manager’s already difficult task a near-on impossible one.
Although Antonio is back in training, the other two remain at least three weeks away from being available for selection and given the club’s precarious league position, this news has come as a huge concern to the fans.
Can West Ham survive without doing any business this month?
Yes
No
We’re going down
— Jacob (@JacobC2018) January 21, 2020
That screams we need to buy a winger
— Nathan Akehurst (@AkehurstNathan) January 21, 2020
And yet we don’t need signings according to our board?? ????
— Rob Hart (@RobertHart24) January 21, 2020
We need an effective signing or two. Now.
— Bob McArdle (@mcardle_bob) January 21, 2020
Surely we need to look at our medical team with all these reoccurring injuries?
— BN Irons (@BN123457) January 21, 2020
What’s Sullivan doing these days? Update on that please.
— ???????????™ (@WestHamCF) January 21, 2020
What do we think?
The club are clearly in need of reinforcements but given that they’ve spent so badly in the past on player’s who haven’t been able to make the impact desired, it may not be possible for West Ham to do any significant business during this transfer window.
In which case, Moyes will have to make do with what he has. Antonio, in particular, has arguably been a huge miss this season with the 29-year-old having made just nine Premier League appearances so far. Although the Leicester game appears to have come around a little too soon for the former Nottingham Forest star, there’s hope he could return for next week’s fixture versus Liverpool.