{"id":207593,"date":"2025-10-17T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207593\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:32:07","slug":"upbeat-outlook-for-january-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207593\/","title":{"rendered":"Upbeat outlook for January transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Form recent reports it seems there may be room for cautious optimism in the winter transfer window. Not everything in the garden is rosy, by any means, but in terms of player selection at least, common sense might just about to break out again at London Stadium.<\/a><\/p>\n

Putting aside the Chairman\u2019s insistence on handling negotiations himself \u2013 which is a pretty big dampener on any window if Sullivan\u2019s underbidding and lowballing sets the agenda \u2013 in terms of the selection of who to buy and who to sell at least there is a more balanced approach being shown by Esp\u00edrito Santo at this early stage with still ten weeks to wait.<\/p>\n

The reported stance on Luis Guilherme<\/a> now needing to be sold, along with utility player Andy Irving seems eminently sensible: There is little point in having approaching \u00a320 million of player sitting \u2018parked\u2019 without an intent to use them. Both deserve an opportunity to progress their careers and if West Ham\u2019s manager won\u2019t use them \u2013 time to move them on.<\/p>\n

Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n

Nuno turns away from has-beens in the January window<\/p>\n

The biggest boost to my outlook, however, came from the Claret and Hugh<\/a> exclusive article confirming that Nuno will not be dipping into the market for his old (literally) favourite Adama Traore. Five years ago the forward might have been a good proposition but would now just continue with the Hammers\u2019 failed strategy of overpaying for past-it players. Ditto Chris Woods.<\/p>\n

Finally, at last. Has the penny dropped? Can David Sullivan be prevented from reverting to type, though, and signing another Salthouse-proffered Callum Wilson-type past-it player in January, just because that\u2019s what he likes to do?<\/p>\n

You know, under Nuno, I suspect he might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Form recent reports it seems there may be room for cautious optimism in the winter transfer window. Not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-207593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}