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Hot Football Transfer Gossip: West Ham ‘target £7m Gomez’, Arsenal ‘make £13.5m defender bid’
Another day, another striker is linked with West Ham. This one is less expensive, more famous and older than all the others they are apparently interested in, and he’s also the only one motivated by a fear of all-our warfare taking place outside his house. It’s Mario Gomez.
The Mirror says the Hammers are considering a £7m bid for the Germany striker, who does not want to return to his most recent club Besiktas due to the “unstable political situation” in Turkey.
The 31-year-old is actually contracted to Fiorentina, but they are keen to offload him due to his £80,000-a-week wages. So he isn’t that inexpensive really, but he may be the only one of the Irons’ targets who actually wants to join them, so that could work in his favour.
A recent injury to Aaron Cresswell has left West Ham even more desperate to sign a new left-back than they are to sign a new striker (which is already extremely desperate) but they are having a similar lack of success acquiring one.
The Sun reports that Arsenal have rejected Slaven Bilic’s offer to take Kieran Gibbs on loan, while approaches for Hull’s Andrew Robertson and even Norwich’s Martin Olsson have been similarly snubbed.
Maybe the Hammers will have better luck snaring Gibbs if the Gunners manage to land Torino full-back Bruno Peres, who the Star says has been the subject of £13.5m from the Emirates.
To be fair, Peres is mainly a right-back so it probably won’t make much difference to the Gibbs deal. Plus, the Italians are said to be demanding £17m. And plus, it’s in the Star.
Everton are poised to sign Swansea centre-back Ashley Williams for £10m “this week” (South Wales Evening Post) while another star of the Euros, Moussa Sissoko, has had to report for pre-season training with Newcastle despite the fact he was supposed to have joined Real Madrid by now (Newcastle Chronicle). Awkward.
Elsewhere, Swansea are set to spend their Ashley Williams money buying Leicester’s Leonardo Ulloa and Tottenham’s Nacer Chadli (Mirror), Fulham have told Norwich to pay £15m if they want to sign striker Ross McCormack (GetWestLondon) and Bastian Schweinsteiger has been sent to train with the Manchester United reserves, Victor Valdes style (Manchester Evening News).
Finally, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has been handed a “blank cheque book” by the club’s owners and encouraged to buy whoever the hell he wants (Sun). Bet they win the league again.
