Supporters of West Ham United have fumed that David Sullivan has finally accepted that the club needs additions to the squad in January.
According to the Evening Standard, due to a realisation over an increasingly-angry fanbase, the co-owner of the club is targeting two new faces before the end of the window (via West Ham News), which had fans furious.
David Sullivan has reluctantly accepted that he has to spend before the January transfer window closes in order to pacify the club's increasingly-angry fan base and is targeting two new additions.
[Source: Ken Dyer – @standardsport] pic.twitter.com/XgeF31ncPq
— West Ham News (@WHUFC_News) January 27, 2020
Accepted it 4 days before the window closes ?
— Dan Lawless ? (@TheLawless) January 27, 2020
Reluctantly accepted there is no strategy is more appropriate….all we read is the January window is tough but we are working hard…….Really. Then the following becomes the Norm..Bid Rejected! , Loan with option to buy!, West Ham set to miss out! Embarrassing state of affairs
— Drj75 (@Drj751) January 27, 2020
Accepted it four days before it slams shut and is targeting loans and cheap deals. He really is an incompetent fool ?
— Jack Allum (@westham009) January 27, 2020
Have the West Ham United board left it too late to start thinking about bringing players in?Yes, it's far too late for us now
No, we could still get some in
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The Hammers currently sit just above the relegation zone of the Premier League, with goal difference the only thing preventing Bournemouth and the London club swapping places (as per BBC).
So far this window, West Ham have signed just Darren Randolph from Middlesbrough and with just days of the window left, many felt that it was too little too late.
Even if he signs us two players the fans still going hate them and want them gone, he should of got players in 4 days into the window not 4 days till it closes just to keep fans quite
— rhys (@rhysie88) January 27, 2020
Reluctantly?? Even if we were flying high in the top 6 we should still be looking to sign players, that’s what good, well run clubs do, constantly improving. Another example of the fact he hasn’t got a clue about running a football club, no wonder we’re a laughing stock
— neilbadger (@neilbadger1) January 27, 2020
We need at least 4 though. Absolute disgrace. It really feels like they are asset stripping the club and getting relegated on purpose. Lowest of the low.
— Barry Mackay (@BarryMackay4) January 27, 2020
He is just realizing this NOW?!?!? I assume that is why he offered a MASSIVE £500,000 to loan an MLS player! What a joke!
— COYI!!! (@Nathanbi77) January 27, 2020
What do we think?
While there is an understandably large amount of frustration surrounding the lack of movement in January, the club did sink just north of £70 million on new players in the summer (as per Transfermarkt).
However, with the current position that the club is in, new signings were a must in January and that will be the route cause of supporters’ frustration – that signings were not an immediate priority.