The West Ham United Courier
Squad6 Sep 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vykintas Sernas
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. West Ham United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Sep 2032
Mamour N'Diaye hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what West Ham United can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2032
The Hull City deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Trai Hume reports back to West Ham United with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Window shuts: 29 in, 27 out at West Ham United
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 29 arrived, 27 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market6 Sep 2032
Coventry City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and West Ham United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Tempers go at West Ham United
Carlos Baleba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Ismail Diallo arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ismail Diallo has, at West Ham United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
Door shut on Moisés Caicedo
West Ham United asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Peter Atkinson out for 30 days
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Peter Atkinson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between West Ham United and Alejandro Garnacho
- Loan watch Joe Scanlon wants to come home
- The dugout Michael Zetterer gets it from the manager