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Scraper 3:10 Tue Jan 17
West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Our kid Jacob Steinberg has penned quite an article.
Fuck Eddie B:ing all of that:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jan/17/west-ham-strikers-david-sullivan-gold-simone-zaza-scott-hogan


Discuss.

Garth Algar 3:25 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Would anyone happen to know what players have scored 10+ top flight goals for us since the Premier Leagues inception?

I can only think of Harston, Di Canio, Morley, Cotton, Harewood off the top of my head.

Garth Algar 3:26 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

*Cottee*

Dan M 3:27 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

31 as he's counted Carroll twice.

Lee Trundle 3:28 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Carlton COLE and Kevin NOLAN have in recent years.

Josh 3:29 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

We've never had a striker in the Premier League that's scored 20+ goals in a season.

Garth Algar 3:40 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Yeah just did a bit of homework myself and found that Zamora and Dicks got to 10 as well.

Top 5 Premier goalscorers as follows:

Di Canio 16
Hartson 15
Harewood 14
Cottee 14
Morley 13

Pretty poor when you think about it.

Dan M 3:40 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Garth Algar 3:25 Tue Jan 17

All of these have scored ten or more in at least one Prem season.

Paolo Di Canio
Carlton Cole
Frederic Kanoute
Frank Lampard
John Hartson
Tony Cottee
Julian Dicks
Kevin Nolan
Bobby Zamora
Jermain Defoe
Marlon Harewood
Diafra Sakho
Dean Ashton
Trevor Morley
Paulo Wanchope

Dan M 3:41 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Looks like we were looking at the same site at the same time. If I hadn't had to answer the door I'd have posted first.

10thofMay 3:41 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Good article. Quality always pays off in any business. But as a business owner (well MD anyway) i know how hard it is to get good people.

10th

Tomshardware 3:43 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

I think Carroll is capable of 15-20 goals a season if he stays fit, that's been the eternal problem with him but loads mentioned on that list were either unknowns or past it.

Hartson got 24 in all comps that season, remember the top scorers page on Teletext.

collyrob 3:44 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Ashton would have been hitting the 20 mark most seasons if it wasn't for injuries.

And if sakho was fit as well he would be in the 15 a season bracket.

Far Cough 3:48 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

I think Geoff Hurst once scored 36 goals in the old first division?

Far Cough 3:51 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Then I found this:

Having scored 40 goals in 59 competitive games in the 1965–66 season and then gone on to make himself a household name by winning the World Cup with England, Hurst was the subject of a £200,000 transfer offer by Manchester United manager Matt Busby – the offer was rejected by Greenwood.[29] He was in the West Ham side which lost the League Cup final 5–3 on aggregate to West Bromwich Albion.

, 3:53 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

We could do with our version of Kevin Phillips. A player just below real international standard who regularly scored in the PL.

Biggie Biggs 3:55 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Why is there no goal per minutes on the pitch stat ?
I imaging because that would make things look a little better and that's not the aim is it

Swiss. 4:00 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Sakho's ratio is pretty decent.

Grumpster 4:06 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Some of the names on that list almost made me LOL.

I mean what the fuck were those tight cunts thinking and do we actually employ scouts?

pdbis 4:07 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Carroll is lucky if he plays 15-20 games a season let alone goals.If Sakho has his back problems sorted he could help us to a good run in.

Far Cough 4:11 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

We could do with Wally St Pier back at the ground

Orange Hammer 4:37 Tue Jan 17
Re: West Ham’s striking failure: 32 signed in seven years and still no solution

Grim reading to say the least. Very depressing when reading about the whole lot in 1 go

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