west ham united have now begun to address their issues at the top of the pitch, with an offer made to sign a “special” new striker for the squad. Graham Potter The player himself is open to a move in the coming weeks.

West Ham face forward crisis

Graham Potter’s first game in charge of West Ham saw them knocked out of the FA Cup Premier League Aston Villa defeated the Hammers 2-1 away from home.

But he has been tasked with improving West Ham’s current form and pulling them out of 14th place in the top flight, but has had the worst possible start yet. Summer signing Nicolas Forkrug went off injured just 15 minutes into the game and had to be replaced by experienced striker Danny Ings.

Now, The Times reports The Germany international will be out for three months He recently suffered a hamstring injury and is just recovering from a long setback last time out.

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It was a busy start to life under Graham Potter.

This also left the Hammers’ offense severely lacking. Michail Antonio is still recovering from a car crash and may not feature again this season, while Jarrod Bowen fractures his foot and is expected to miss a few more weeks before returning to the first-team squad, leaving only England Si started as the consensus senior forward for Porter.

According to Fabrizio Romano, West Ham United plan to address this issue in January market And are preparing to “bring in new forwards in the coming days/weeks”, now that they have made offers for familiar faces.

West Ham’s bid for ‘special’ striker

Boot Room reports, Hammers renew bid to sign Aston Villa striker Jon Dolan They hope to solve the forward problem in this window. The London side were keen to sign him in the summer transfer window and held protracted talks over the move, which ultimately failed and the Colombian instead signed a new contract at Villa Park.

However, after starting just four Premier League games this season, he is once again the subject of intense speculation despite having scored seven goals in the top flight so far.

Current manager Unai Emery called it “special”, Paris Saint-Germain are said to be interestedand now West Ham United are also jumping into the ring. The Hammers reportedly made an offer of “in excess” of £30m to sign the 21-year-old striker, but it was quickly rejected by Villa as it was nowhere near their valuation of the young striker. Far. .

For his part, Duran is thought to be open to a move to the London Stadium as he looks to start games regularly, a rarity for Ollie Watkins, who is clearly Emery’s favorite The central region takes the lead in choosing.

However, he still has four and a half years left in his term £75,000 of trading per week It would cost a fortune to pry him away from Villa Park in the Midlands.