Although they have a reasonable enough 16 goals from their opening nine Premier League games, it’s fairly obvious that West Ham need to get a top level striker on board to ease the goalscoring burden on the fading twin strike force of Danny Ings and Michail Antonio.
At present, things look relatively healthy for the Hammers but over the course of a long, hard season, not bringing in another front man could come back to haunt them.
Though they bought well in other areas of the squad during the summer, David Moyes and Tim Steidten neglected the striking department so that has to be a priority in January.
Former Man United midfielder and now broadcaster, Owen Hargreaves, has suggested that perhaps the Hammers should go after Brentford’s Ivan Toney, who will be back from an eight month ban in January.
He’s unlikely to come cheap and it’d be interesting to see if West Ham would push the boat out financially to that extent, but Hargreaves is clear.
“Ivan Toney is the one who screams out,” he said on Premier League Productions (h/t HITC).
“Benrahma can play off the left. Kudus can play off one of those wide areas.
“I think Moyes has got the players. Maybe get a Toney in, if you could. But I just think you have to get Kudus in the side, then allow Paqueta to play central. He is easily their best player.”
With it believed that London rivals Chelsea and Arsenal might also be interested in Toney’s services, Moyes and Steidten will have a hell of a job convincing the player that the London Stadium should be the next port of call in his career.
Moyes should go now cup win should not make him safe and take Antonio with him