West Ham Fans

The silly season that is more commonly known as the January transfer window lurches in to it's final hours with West Ham reportedly offering and then having rejected a ludicrous £18 Million players plus cash bid for Charlton's England International Striker Darren Bent. It appears that no amount of money will coerce Charlton into parting with their prize asset, Premiership survival is the order of the day at the Valley as well as the Boleyn, so they obviously are not willing to sell a player who could help to condemn their team to relegation, so where does this leave Eggert Magnusson and Alan Curbishley? It is believed that Curbishley has told his chairman that enough is enough on the 'Bent' saga, and similarly to the situation at Birmingham with regards to the attempted transfer of Mathew Upson, that neither club will do any business unless they are offered stratospheric prices, well, if £18 Million for Bent isn't stratospheric what is? Taking the P**s that's what it is, you can just imagine club chairmen rubbing their hands in anticipation of 'teaching the Icelandic new boy a lesson' by fleecing him at every opportunity. To long suffering fans it is little short of a tragedy that for once the club finally has financial clout, only to see the riches being squandered on players who could hardly be described as 'world class'. Magnusson's increasingly desperate attempts at bringing in new players have made him an ideal target for extortionate demands, how far he is prepared to push the envelope will become apparent in the next thirty odd hours. Shame shame and double shame! - Ed We will be putting articles up every four hours or so until the transfer window closes, there is of course the small matter of tonight's game against Liverpool as well. Richard Murray was quick to rubbish the 'Bent' reports on Sky news, but most Chairmen are pre-programmed to lie without compunction and would find it hard to tell the truth even if they wanted to.