Suddenly everything is a lot rosier in West Ham’s garden and it has come just in time for the club’s technical director Tim Steidten.
West Ham are back in business after sealing a superb 2-0 win at Newcastle.
The Hammers have been dreadful so far under Julen Lopetegui.
Poor performances and results had left the Spaniard fighting to save his job as West Ham’s manager.
But he wasn’t the only one being questioned.
Tim Steidten has reportedly been under the microscope too for his summer transfer dealings.
Concerns have been raised Steidten got the summer window badly wrong at the London Stadium.
The acquisitions of the likes of Luis Guilherme, Guido Rodriguez, Carlos Soler, Jean-Clair Todibo and Niclas Fullkrug have all been criticised.
That’s despite Steidten being lauded for having ‘won the transfer window’ with his nine new additions.
But many of the summer arrivals came to the fore as West Ham suddenly sparked into life at Newcastle.
Max Kilman, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Crysencio Summerville and Soler were fundamental to the brilliant display and result on Tyneside.
Reinvigorated West Ham plot exciting move for red hot striker
One swallow a summer does not make of course.
But this was a statement performance from West Ham that bodes very well for the rest of the season.
This is what many journalists, pundits and fans expected the Hammers to look like as they were tipped to challenge for Europe.
West Ham fans will agree that the forward line still needs addressing, though.
Michail Antonio and Danny Ings both impressed at Newcastle. But Fullkrug remains out for a third month and there are claims he is not settled and wants to leave.
Now it seems things aren’t only looking up on the pitch.
Because reinvigorated West Ham are plotting an exciting move for a red hot striker as faith is restored in Steidten.
That’s if a claim from Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio is anything to go by.
West Ham fans felt the club needed to sign a young, powerful, dynamic striker with pace in the summer.
That was why Hammers supporters were so disappointed to see Steidten opt to sign Fullkrug instead of Jhon Duran.
Well it seems Steidten is holding his hands up to his mistake.
Faith restored in Steidten as Hammers look to Lath
Transfer reporter Di Marzio claims West Ham are seriously considering a move for Middlesbrough striker Emmanuel Latte Lath when the January window opens in just over four weeks.
Reporting on his own website, Di Marzio says Steidten had scouts at Oxford United on Saturday to watch Boro’s number nine.
The 24-year-old Ivorian certainly impressed.
Lath bagged a hat-trick to make it seven goals and two assists in seven Championship starts this season.
What does Di Marzio know about the goings-on involving a Middlesbrough star playing in a game at Oxford you might ask.
Well Lath is a former Atalanta player and cost Boro’s £4.3m in the summer of 2023.
So Di Marzio speaks from a position of knowledge on Lath.
After a period of adaptation the forward has started to shine and is said to be on West Ham’s radar.
Especially after impressing during the Hammers’ scouting trips.
Exactly the kind of move West Ham should be making
He is the third top scorer in the Championship right now and the Hammers are said to be looking to the second tier for new recruits having tasted so much success with that philosophy in the past.
Moving for a player like Lath is exactly what West Ham fans want to hear.
The club should have invested in young, hungry stars when they were sat sixth in the table going into last season’s January window.
Failure to do that resulted in a poor second half of the campaign.
West Ham can’t afford to make the same mistake this year.
After a slow start, that Newcastle performance gives great hope.
Adding a player like Lath to the forward line will breathe even more life into a squad which is built to be competing for – and in – Europe.
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