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Alan Curbishley appears keen to beef up his goalscoring options for next season, which is understandable when you consider that when you take Dean Ashton out of the equation, last season’s next top scorer only managed four league goals. And hence the latest rumour relating to possible attacking targets.

West Ham are after an attacking £10m rated pair as Curbishley looks to capture Manchester United striker Louis Saha and Bolton winger El-Hadji Diouf. (The Guardian)

Now I think that when he isn’t plagued by injury (which is pretty much all the time at present), Louis Saha is a 15-goal-a-season striker in the Premier League and well worth considering a bid for, especially if the price is right. However I do not see the worth in pursuing Diouf as I can’t see him doing much forWest Ham. What do Hammers think of this pair? Worth buying or better to steer clear?

It looks like England manager Fabio Capello is going to continue his spin the bottle method of deciding proud England’s next football captain – and the bottle is pointing towards a young Wayne Rooney. This move will either be a stroke of genius, with Roon gladly taking on the responsibility of being captain and shrugging off his gobby youth – or it will go down like a turd in a swimming pool with Rooney coping about as well as Grange Hill’s Zammo at an Harvard entrance exam. This will be a real test for Rooney as England’s opponents will be the United States – a country that doesn’t really know the meaning of friendly, and is desperate to show the European’s that they are a proper footballing country and not a craptastic footballing backwater.
The Daily Mail reckons that on top of the seismic decision to let lunatic Roon follow in the footsteps of dozy Rio and take over the asylum, Fabio is also considering adding some classic English beef to the strikeforce – namely burly goal-getter Dean Ashton – Roon and Ashton up front – the classic blunderbuss strikeforce!

At the start of the season, many were predicting this would be Dean Ashton’s breakthrough campaign, although injury has halted the West Ham striker’s progress so far. The Press Association report that his manager Alan Curbishley wants him to forget about the possibility of playing for England right now and instead try to rediscover some form for the Hammers.

“Deano just has to keep going. We have been easing him in, and it is difficult getting fit in the first team, but there has been no other way,” said Curbishley.

“He had the injury and it took a year to recover from it. He had another set-back once he got himself going and I think you can see that he has a bit to do.”

He said: “The games are watched every week and Matthew Upson got himself in there, so it is performances I think, nothing else.

“First things first, Deano has got to get himself absolutely right and he will know when he is absolutely right.”

However, many Hammers fans would argue that reserve matches would be a better bet for the former Crewe and Norwich striker right now. His recent performances have been poor and Curbishley’s insistence of partnering him with Carlton Cole is not yielding the necessary results.

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West Ham’s Dean Ashton is going to have to make do with glumly sitting on the subs bench and twiddling his thumbs whenever his team face one of the “Big 4″, the Guardian reports.
Apparently boss Alan Curbishley reckons that a snug, tight-fitting 4-5-1 is the way to go against the big boys and so far he has opted to play Carlton Cole as lone striker, shunting Ashton to the bench. Curbs said:

“It’s all right playing against the best teams but when you play them you have to do certain things tactically and I thought we did it the best way…We played 4-5-1 at Chelsea, kept it tight and were unlucky not to get something from the game. We went 4-5-1 against Manchester United and won and then again away at Arsenal, where we lost. But going to the Emirates is tough.
“Carlton Cole is best suited to being the lone striker – there’s a lot or work to be done. I spoke to Dean before the United game and he understood. There are no problems. We want to get the results and then we’ll worry about individuals.”

Despite Curbs assurances though, rumours are rife that Deano isn’t happy being a benchwarmer, Guardian journo Sachin Nakrani writes:

“The 24-year-old forward is reportedly unhappy with his lack of football this season. He has made only eight starts and could seek a move during the transfer window.”

And with clubs like Tottenham and Manchester United reportedly interested in Ashton, how long will he be prepared to sit idly on the bench during the big games?

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