The Birmingham boys and girl are finally mowving south. David Sullivan and David Gold have finally completed their protracted takeover of West Ham United. Speculataion mounts as to the future of current hammers boss Gianfranco Zola, some saying that he will be fired and others stating that the owners are to empower Zola with a bit of a war chest to try and improve the squad. Something between eight and twelve million pounds is the alleged figure. This West Ham side is in bad need of a striker, the loss of Carlton Cole has been a huge loss. They are also a bit short in midfield and desperately need to keep hold of their key players, namely, Robert Green and Scott Parker.
Transfer gossip is out of control at the moment, ridiculous link after ridiculous link...Some on the other hand are not so ridiculous, Rudd Van Nistelrooy on his way to Spurs? Flamini to Man City? Kenwyne Jones to Liverpool? Ben Foster to Spurs? We'll have to wait and see, no doubt we'll have the usual Sky Sports News drama on the 31st of January with that theme tune ringing in our ears all day and God knows we'll all be sick of the sight of Bryan Swanson!!!!
United V City tonight in the semi-final first leg of the Carling Cup, team selection for United should be interesting, traditionally, United field a younger, less experienced team in the this competition. However, Fergie will not want to lose to City this evening. The Tevez factor is also an interesting facet to this match, United baulked at the 25Million pound asking price during the summer, money bags City coughed up the cash and Tevez is starting to return on that investment with eleven goals in his last ten games. Does Ferfie regret his decision not to sign Tevez? We should remember that he rarely gets these decisions wrong, (Jaap Stam aside) time will tell whether the sale of Tevez will turn out to be the right one for United.
With their financial problems worsening and talk of their star man Wayne Ronney being sold a win over their wealthy neighbours would be the appropriate tonic for this United team.