West Ham Fans Born to be Claret and Blue

I've been away for a week so i've had no way to find out new info.... since when did Fletcher leave i thought he was happy here at west ham. I liked him and i thought that he did a good job covering for Mullins.... so can someone post a brief explanation of the latest news for me? thanks

Duscher to sign for West Ham within the next week for a fee reported to be around £5.5m, according to media sources in Argentina.

I looked up more about James Tomkins after the Gills game, as i thought he was really good. Apparently when he was doing the youth training thing (players usually get paid about £60 a week while doing this) he was earning £3000 a week just to keep Celski away!!!! Got to be good then aint he?

I think it's time to get our big name player pards have been talking about, Sean Wright-Phillips. But if he comes will Yossi gonna start on the bench? If so, Yossi will be gone by January...

Both Noble and Reid are high quality prospects and ready to take their positions in the premiership. Tomkins also a great prospect. Great to hear how well they are doing in preseason. It is part of our West Ham heritage and tradition that we bring on academy boys into the first team and there has been a lot of talk on this site critical of the club for releasing some of our recent products. Perhaps Noble will be a better midfield prospect than many of those suggested on these pages. At least he will be playing with some passion for the club colours.

just heard that the greg halford bid has been rejected as colchester want just over 1 million for him

I went to gillingham today and must say i was extremly impressed with our number 5. His name is james tomkins, he was brilliant. Zamora looked class and his cheeky lob would have made my day only to be saved by baker, who looks a good prospect, one for us to buy, maybe. Bowyer done well, noble must start every game, THIS BOYS A GENIOUS. I got a signed ball by teddy, safe!!!

ime getting fed up of checking all the whufc websites everyday only to find out we still hav'nt bought any world class players. i mean when r we gona land a big player. the fans really deserve it as we've watched our big players fade away in the past. irons forever

steven appiah's a fantastic player. reckon there'll be bigger clubs sniffing around him than us though. it'll be interesting to see how the chimbonda and malbranque issues resolve themselves - with both players wanting away, and both clubs being clints. i reckon if we bide our time we could get em... imagine malbranque linking up with yossi next season... pure quality

We haven't got that long to get any more new players in before the start of the season. Perhaps with Carrick joining Man Utd (and hopefully £3m coming our way!)... Duscher could now be heading to us. This is the big-name signing that us supporters are desperately looking for, he could help take us on to the next level. However, everything's gone quiet on this tranfer rumour... Sidwell of Reading would also be a decent signing.

For the love of god I am a greek hammer fan and I pray that ricardo won't be dressed in claret and blue!!!! The guy is seriously inconsistent, he can make a couple of good saves and in the next moment he can conceive a laugher! Ricardo stay away from Upton Park!!!

With Fletcher on his way to Palace for £400k ( many people have said all along that he was a steady Eddy and not Prem quality )the need for a quality holding player is greater than ever. Lets face it Mullins made that position his own last season, but Dailly isn't good enough as cover whilst Noble, Bowyer, Benayoun and NRC are all attacking midfielders. Pards even had to resort to playing Anton there when Mullins was injured. With the Carrick money beefing up our kity we should push the boat out and buy a top drawer player like Graveson, Maniche or Deucher, but in all reallity we probably can only attract the likes of Jakelka or Sidwell.

o.. that's a bad news for us as fletcher went off. he's a great player and can cover up for the midfield. but we cant deprieve him of 1st team action. GL Carl. up the IRONS!

Time for Noble to step up and be counted for this season now Fletch has gone, and any1 thats seen him will know that this kid can make it in the big time.

I must say i am really getting worried about the lack of quality being added to the side for this campaign!I reckon Pantsil will only be signed once the Chimbonda situation is sorted.If Benayoun is staying we don't need a right midfielder as Bowyer can cover there if not suspended.We deffinatly need to sign a quality centre midfielder sooner rather than later.Now Pompey are giving up on Petrov we should steam in there.Malbranque would be another excellent addition but maybe that has gone by the way?I read the Swedish keeper was available for £1.5m and Charlton where sniffing,now that would be a great signing.Lets see how Roeder likes it and put a bid in for there young centre half Stephen Taylor(he is good).My friend works at Heathrow and was looking after the team when they flew to Sweden and naturally being a good Hammer he questioned AP.AP stated absolutley no way is Ashton going anywhere,nor any of our players,but was adamant about Ashton!He has had several bids accepted but players want to much and he is not paying OTT prices for players.He also said do not expect West Ham to do as well this season as last season far exceeded everyones expectations.Finally he has money but they are not going to spend it all or get into debt as in 2012 we are moving!!!