West Ham fans don’t know what to think about Roberto Gagliardini rumour

Many West Ham fans on Twitter are undecided about a rumour linking a six-cap Italy international to the club during the January window.

Calciomercato have reported that Moyes and his boys tried very hard to sign Roberto Gagliardini of Inter last month, obviously to no avail.

Some supporters were disappointed by the news, venting their anger at the board and rightly so, but others seemed relieved by the failure, reasoning that we don’t need the player with the youth coming through the ranks and that we don’t need to go down the Italian panic buy route again as with Nocerino and Borriello in the past.

You’d be forgiven for not having heard of Gagliardini, he’s hardly made huge waves in Italian football; he is something of a squad rotation man at the San Siro and occasional international player.

Here’s the pick of the Tweets as fans didn’t know what to think about the speculation…

West Ham clearly did not “seriously try” to sign Roberto Gagliardini – if a player was “seriously tried” to be signed then he would have been signed. Our Board have been at West Ham for a decade and have never seriously tried to sign a player in all of that time.

— Josh Verrills (@WestHamJoshV) February 11, 2020

£5 quid and a fiesta never gonna bring class

— del hammer ⚒⚒⚒ (@capone_miss) February 11, 2020

But were only short of asking price by 99% and wanting that over 5 years. Every transfer headline had the same answer. Next 🤡🤡🐕

— Paul Rosser (@PaulRosser01) February 11, 2020

I seriously tried to win the lottery, only assisted if I’d actually bought a lottery ticket but I didn’t !!!
But hey…..”I tried” !!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄

— Andy Tacey (@thetaceyboy) February 11, 2020

Thanks god..

— Italian Irons (@ItalianIrons) February 11, 2020

Went down the Italian panic buy route with Nocherino and Borriello, didn’t work out and were pretty lazy at times. So not that fussed

— ⚒ Andy B ⚒ (@northwesthammer) February 12, 2020