{"id":336907,"date":"2025-12-09T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:07:07","slug":"west-ham-frontman-target-back-on-the-scoresheet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336907\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham frontman target back on the scoresheet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-hams-callum-wilson-contract-conundrum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Callum Wilson<\/a> able to play just 20 minutes yesterday, West Ham\u2019s urgent need for a young fit striker has never been more evident. When Wilson did appear his first touches lead to an assist for Jarrod Brown through some excellent hold \u2013 up play: How badly the Hammers have missed a decent number nine is only too evident from Wilson\u2019s successes this season.<\/p>\n<p>Niclas Fullkrug won\u2019t cut the mustard and it seems Nuno has already decided to consign him to the January sales list, which will be a relief to all except perhaps David Sullivan who\u2019ll be looking at the wrong end of a \u00a310 million plus loss on the German.<\/p>\n<p>All of which leaves West Ham in desperate need of an acquisition next month. As per<a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/12-games-no-goals-hammers-scout-the-striker-who-cannot-score\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Claret and Hugh\u2019s article<\/a> in November, the club had dispatched scouts to run the rule over Norwich City\u2019s Championship striker Josh Sarjent whilst the American forward was in the middle of his 14 game goal drought.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>USMNT striker back in form and on target again<\/p>\n<p>Like all winning or losing streaks, every glut or drought comes to an end eventually and Sargent finally got back on the scoresheet at the weekend with a fine headed goal for Norwich City.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough to stop his side losing 3-2 to Watford but now that the drought is over, hopefully just in time for January he\u2019ll be on target every week.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative to costly overseas strikers who take six month to get up to speed with the frenetic pace of English football, a Championship striker can hit the ground running but presents a different gamble to Premier League bosses: Can they cut it in the top tier? The gulf is enormous.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Sargent has improved and now has the quality to succeed in the Premier League compared with his last stint \u2013 that\u2019s a matter for Nuno and the scouts. After all, nobody wants another Jordan Hugill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Callum Wilson able to play just 20 minutes yesterday, West Ham\u2019s urgent need for a young fit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}