Welcome Soungoutou Magassa!

[Barty888]

Fabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomano
Soungoutou Magassa has just signed his four year contract as West Ham player. Deal 100% sealed.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Sully declared himself defacto director of football months ago when we binned off Steidten...getting these deals done has been his responsibility since then.

Macaulay is essentially head of talent identification. If deals are for players we've identified for months and are only just getting done, that's always been on the dwarf.

The thing with this though, it's not like you identify a player and just go out and buy him for his RRP like at a shop. There has to be constant weighing up of how much you're willing to pay and any amount over an initial bid may impact on who else can come in, depending on the budget restraints.

Potter has already stated that he wanted Macauley to act as a conduit so he doesn't have to have conversations about recruitment and can focus on tactics, training, etc. That means that even when we finally make an initial approach that there's a constant back and forth relay running between Potter, Macauley and Sullivan on our side as well as the selling club, the player and his agent on the other. This is one of the reasons that it works better and certainly faster to have a Director of Football who both makes the recruitment decisions and handles all the negotiations.

[BRANDED]

You MIGHT want to do a deal late to avoid all the hijacking shenanigans? Or, be 100% sure the player wants to come. Anyway. A deal is a deal whenever it happens.

[Sir Alf]

Yes Stubbo, April it was posted on X or via one of his stooges, that he had taken over the DOF role again.  The fact that Steidten was never a fully fledged DOF in the first place seemed to go unnoticed by most though and especially the media.  I guess it didnt fit the narrative that Sullivan had spun about all West Ham's problems being caused by having a DOF.  Steidten and before him Hussilos.  Again Hussilos was not a DOF but people always seem to get fooled by the obfuscation techniques of Sullivan   

Sullivan never fully committed or implemented a proper DOF role and has never given anyone that job title.  The fact that the supporting infrastructure is not implemented either or should I say half implemented ( smallest scouting network, handful of data analysts compared to most top tier clubs) and of course no long term plan or strategy for a DOF to work to, also goes unnoticed.    Sullivan's Circus it continues to be.

[Tomshardware]

I'm reading that Eintract Frankfurt are trying to hijack the deal.

That was yesterday, keep up. 

[stubbo-admin]

Sully declared himself defacto director of football months ago when we binned off Steidten...getting these deals done has been his responsibility since then.

Macaulay is essentially head of talent identification. If deals are for players we've identified for months and are only just getting done, that's always been on the dwarf.

[PostmanPissed]

I'm reading that Eintract Frankfurt are trying to hijack the deal.

[9898]

Sully will claim all got done when he got “stuck in” and sorted out Macaulay. 

Nonetheless, lets hope he’s a big success from the outset. He’s a big unit, a number 6, not sure about his athleticism and pace but from YouTube highlights reel it looks like he can get across the pitch pretty quickly. 

Now we just need a number 8, CB and striker. 

I don't like him as much as the next, but hard to deny that he said he'd get 'stuck in' and literally hours later we sign one player and are about to sign another. 

[Mad Ferret]

Mad Ferret suggesting medical failed.   I read was an incomplete medical not failed apparently. Part 2 today I think? 

It's what I was told mate.

[Sir Alf]

Mad Ferret suggesting medical failed.   I read was an incomplete medical not failed apparently. Part 2 today I think? 

[SUM A DING WONG]

6ft 2

Eyes aren't blue.

Soungoutou is after you.

la la la la,

la la la 

la, la !!
 

[Swiss.]

6' 2' box top box midfielder. Just what need. 

This isn't happening now mate.

Failed medical.

No one fails a medical at West Ham. 

[goose]

He refused to sign when he realised there was no Kappa kit.

[Mad Ferret]

6' 2' box top box midfielder. Just what need. 

This isn't happening now mate.

Failed medical.

[Swiss.]

6' 2' box top box midfielder. Just what need. 

[El Scorchio]

Fucking hell. He’s resorted to replying to his own shit bait. A new low

 

Most ignore him now, which he'll hate.

He'll just ramp up the bullshit he writes and then eventually get banned and come back under another username and it'll be rinse and repeat again.

What an existence.

Yup exactly. He usually just starts calling people names at this point to try and get a rise out of someone. A sad existence. 

[Lee Trundle]

Fucking hell. He’s resorted to replying to his own shit bait. A new low

 

Most ignore him now, which he'll hate.

He'll just ramp up the bullshit he writes and then eventually get banned and come back under another username and it'll be rinse and repeat again.

What an existence.

[Fauxstralian]

Read there was a technical issue with the medical which will be done
Should be announced later today hopefully 
Is it Friday lunch time to complete transfers for all weekend games?

[El Scorchio]

Fucking hell. He’s resorted to replying to his own shit bait. A new low

[Mad Ferret]

Hearing that he’s failed the medical.

Prob explains why we've gone all in for Fernandes.

[Tomshardware]

This cսnt signed yet?

[Mad Ferret]

Hearing that he’s failed the medical.

[twoleftfeet]

I'd be amazed if we see him doing the crossed hammers in front of the training ground portakabin.

[Sir Alf]

He’s gonna need another decent defensive midfielder alongside him and another attack minded midfielder who has pace, strength and can carry the ball.  Basically a complete new midfield for him to operate in to have any chance of success. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

He asked what time West Ham kick off?

Every ten minutes was the answer.

[twoleftfeet]

Last seen heading to Dover looking for a dinghy to get him back to France.