David Gold has broken his silence on West Ham’s transfer movements this summer.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on TalkSport, the Hammers co-Chariman spoke of how the club are ‘desperate’ to sign a striker ahead of the new season, how he believes that the rest of the squad is near complete and on the lacklustre recruitments last summer.
“It’s clear to most fans that we are desperate for centre-forwards.” said Gold, before adding: “Andy Carroll is injury-prone as we know, we have had an injury problem with [Diafra] Sakho and we have just got to bring in centre-forwards. We have got to find the money.
“Without strikers, you struggle in the Premier League. You struggle in any division because strikers are your key players. You have to spend your money wisely but it must be on strikers, particularly strikers that have had experience with Premier League football – the very best we can afford.”
The Hammers have been heavily linked with a number of Premier League strikers this summer, none less so than Arsenal forwards Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott, however a move for either player is yet to go ahead.
Also linked with out of favour Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere, Gold was quick to rubbish such rumours.
“We are interested in all good players but we have to face the facts here – we have got good midfielders. We have got a good defence, we have got good midfielders, we have got good wingers. We need strikers and that is the key to everything for this season so we are focused first and foremost on bringing in two strikers.”
West Ham have made only signing so far this summer, that being Pablo Zabaleta who joined on a free transfer after leaving Manchester City.
