✍ Manuel Lanzini

[irving boleyn]

It might be that Slaven has an eye for an attacking midfielder yet cant pick a decent defender.

Now if the previous occupant had stayed to help,,,,,

[Hatcham Iron]

we must get this fellow and his agent in pronto he is going to be hot property he wants to be here please MR Gold and MR Sullivan GET IT DONE ASAP this fella is what west ham has always been about class.

[Ariksan]

I thought we had a first option agreement in place or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Yes, I was led to believe that we not only had a first option agreement but we also have an option with an already agreed transfer fee.

[BrownFatwa]

I thought we had a first option agreement in place or am I barking up the wrong tree?

you've obviously never dealt with a Arab company before!

[Prob]

Why do people believe transfer stories when it comes to Liverpool. If they signed every player they was linked with by some ITK liverpool fan on twitter they would have the whole of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Germany league and a few decent Italians

[Kialos]

They've got form for doing us over, Mascherano when they reported the 3 rd party terms to FA and Yossi.

My money is on Lanzini still being with us in February though.

[Lincolnhammer92]

It might be that Slaven has an eye for an attacking midfielder yet cant pick a decent defender.

Now if the previous occupant had stayed to help,,,,,

Well the only defender he's bought has been Ogbonna who has been very good. No idea what your argument is based on.

[kasi]

David Sullivan makes a comment about Lanzini and the surrounding rumors on the website:

"We have an unbreakable option with both Lanzini and his club, so any other team's interest is irrelevant."

Read more at http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015 ... o8gA7L4.99" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Terrific news

[Jumby]

Whenever I see a new post in this thread I now always think 'He's not injured now too is he?!!!!!'

[Jinxed]

Liverpool link is rubbish

He is signing for us in January

[Kialos]

[Philosophical Dan]

Christ, those ****s are optimistic. He's already been to that revolting place at least once, so there's no way he'd be interested in moving there. If anything, he'll be concerned that maybe the East End isn't far enough away from L*verpool to be truly comfortable.

[Believer]

Liverpool link is rubbish

He is signing for us in January

That's good enough for me. Cheers Jinxed.

[mrbluesky]

you've obviously never dealt with a Arab company before!

The phrase 'gentlemans agreement' translates in Arabic to 'highest bidder wins'.

Fact.

[mrbluesky]

All joking aside there's nothing to be gained from speculation, we're all given to understand there was some sort of pre-agreement in place and he does look a fabulous player so id be pretty confident the club will do all they can to secure him come January.

That said unfortunately in this business money talks.

[kalashnikov]

I thought he had a really interesting game today.

Showed his class with the goal. However I also thought it was the first time he has looked lightweight in the prem.

I suspect it was a deliberate tactic from spurs to muscle up on him and it worked. He had some nice touches but overall goal aside and up till when Song came one didn't have much influence on the game.

Now that Payet is gone unfortunately you can bet that it won't be the last time he comes up against strong play. Up to him to work out a way to deal with it.

On a side note.. when we eventually get him, Payet and Song on the field together we're going to ooze class.

[Beavis Danzig]

diamond in the turd.

proper west ham stuff. give us a proper worldie to send us home with something to smile about after a completely miserable afternoon.

will be world class and off to spain for a king's ransom in a couple of seasons.

[Adam 'The Smudge']

Shame I missed the goal. After 82 mins of utter b*llocks I upped and left.
He fought well for a slightly built lad but Spurs out muscled him and virtually everyone out of the game today.

[hammer1975]

Shows he's got some heart to stand out against the team performance today

Take no comfort from Sullivan's 'unbreakable' agreement statement as would expect human rights law to make that impossible....however pleased to hear Jinxed say he'll sign in January

Roma rumoured to be moving on his mate Iturbe in January - maybe worth a look to see if he could make a similar impact

[Morocco Mole]

Was out best player today, even before the goal.....