A lack of new signings up and down the 4 English league divisions may seem surprising because of the amount of deals that have taken place in the January window over the years. Who could forget Fernando Torres' £50 million move to Chelsea or Andy Carroll's £35 million move to Liverpool? (Both have been almost failures I'd like to add).
Obviously, fans from every club must be asking the question: "Why haven't we signed anyone yet?", well, after looking around some West Ham United forum websites, one the major topics being discussed was just that, 'why no signings?' Sam Allardyce has signed George John from FC Dallas, but no one else and this may be cause for concern amongst Hammers fans, let me tell you why.
Bringing in a new defender can only help keep up our great defensive record this season and quite frankly, our goal difference is only as good as it is because of our good defence! However, the team needs to be scoring more goals and Big Sam thinks that the solution is to bring in a new striker, however after being to 3 West Ham games this season, the problem hasn't been the strikers, it's been the supply to the strikers (or lack of it). The only wingers or wide midfielders we have are Julien Faubert - who has actually been one of our best players this season, Matthew Taylor - he did well at the start of the season, but has been injured since before Christmas, Freddie Sears - an inexperienced player but with a lot of promise and Gary O'Neil - he's only just coming back to full fitness and has been sorely missed.
With these 4 players in mind, surely the obvious plan of action for BFS is to buy a left winger. I guarantee that if Carlton Cole had got better supply from both wings, he'd have scored a lot more goals than the 8 he's notched so far.
However, buying a new winger isn't the only solution to West Ham's problem. I think one solution could be to get rid of Freddie Piquionne, he's probably been our worst player this season. In the 2 West Ham home games I have been to, Faubert was whipping in crosses towards Piq, but poor touches from the Frenchman kept sending the ball out of play and no attempt to knock the ball down to a team mate was made.
Over the years, there have been some great players that have graced the Upton Park turf, however to be liked by the claret and blue army, you have to be committed and play well, however Freddie Piquionne hasn't really done either, he's only scored 11 goals in 61 appearances for West Ham and if you compare that to Sam Baldock (who was signed in August 2011) who has scored 5 goals in 14 appearances, I think that tells you a lot about Freddie Piquionne.
So that's the end of the my first West Ham United post of this season, I'll be writing about the Hammers for the rest of the season.
Come on you Irons!
TB 2012
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