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Obviously with the transfer window opened, the speculation thread mill has gone into overdrive with rumour versus counter rumour, none more so than the 'never ending story' of whether Manchester United's Jesse Lingard would return to West Ham on a permanent basis, following his incredibly successful loan spell during the second half of last season.

West Ham have confirmed they have recalled Joseph Anang from his loan spell at Stevenage, the 21-year-old goalkeeper made 18 appearances in League Two for struggling Boro this term, and now returns to the club at the request of David Moyes. Hammers have also exercised their recall clause to bring Mipo Odubeko back from his loan spell at Huddersfield early, the club has confirmed. Odubeko joined the Yorkshire side on a season-long loan deal in the summer, but featured for just 107 minutes over six appearances in the Championship.

Remember Savio Nsereko and the hype surrounding the next 'best young striker in Europe' when West Ham paid Brecsia £9 Million for the 19 year old back in 2009? Despite the massive fan fair on his arrival, he failed to settle at the club, making just one start and failing to score in any of his ten appearances. He was sold to Fiorentina for €2.7 Million, with Manuel da Costa going the other way as part of the deal for free. Hammers retained the rights to 50 percent of the player's sell-on fee, which would eventually be worth, a big fat Zilch!

Whisper it quietly, but depite having only recently emerged from an atrocious run of results, West Ham have attained 'media momentum'. The club is no longer the subject of widespread derision, far from it, somehow David Moyes has managed to elevate West Ham to levels previously thought relatively implausible and virtually impossible!

You have to go back to 2018, one of West Ham's brightest stars who had been lighting up the Premier League had just had an amazing season, he was off to play alongside his hero and mentor Lionel Messi for his country Argentina, ahead of returning to the domestic league where newly ensconced manager Manuel Pellegrini had planned to build his entire team around the 'hot property' that WAS Manuel Lanzini, the Little Jewel.

Palace: Guaita, Ward, Guéhi, Andersen, Mitchell, Milivojevic ©️, Hughes, Schlupp, Ayew, Edouard, Benteke Subs: Butland (GK), Matthews (GK), Tomkins, Kelly, Riedewald, Olise, Eze, Mateta
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Johnson, Soucek, Rice©️, Bowen, Lanzini, Benrahma, Antonio. Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Vlasic, Fredericks, Masuaku, Kral, Alese, Noble, Oko-Flex.

West Ham could sign Authur Cabral from Swiss outfit Basel as early as this coming Wednesday, which would make him eligable to face Leeds United in the FA Cup and League double commencing on January the 9th. If you thought that the financial crisis was limited to British clubs, look again and see just how MASSIVE the financial fall out in Europe has been!

Imagine the scenario, you are a top flight manager with over 1000 games under your belt, you have redeemed yourself from a particularly squalid period of time and moved on to re-establish yourself as a manager to be reckoned with, your team is doing unbelievably well when suddenly the wheels come off the wagon, big time!

There has been plenty of media speculation regarding which players, if any, are going to join West Ham during the January transfer window. There is a perception that Hammers manager David Moyes, or 'dithering Dave' as he has often been labelled, has NOT provided head of recruitment Rob Newman OR the Board with a list of players he wants and has done nothing to ensure the club hits the ground running to avoid missing out on targets.

With 'Murder Month' drawing to its conclusion, the fall out for ALL clubs large and small is plain to see with players dropping like flies due to the insane schedule forced upon them aided and abetted by the new surge of the Omicron Covid variant.