Danny Mills gets West Ham transfer verdict all wrong
West Ham United have a lot of work to do in the transfer window this month if they are to get their stuttering season back on track.
New manager David Moyes will doubtless be keen to add to his ranks, and the transfer rumours have already begun swirling around the London Stadium.
One interesting story that emerged recently came from The Sun, who claimed that the Scot has made Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud his number one transfer target in January.
Former England international Danny Mills certainly feels that the Frenchman could add something to this Hammers team.
“He might even be [the] No.1 [striker] as he’s a David Moyes-type player,” he told Football Insider.
“We know how Moyes likes to play, and you’d have to say that he does things by being very organised, very solid and utilising a target man. Get the ball up to him and work from there, that’s what Moyes has had and always wanted at his football clubs.
“He might not be the greatest goalscorer, he scores goals without a doubt with the right service, by getting those balls into the box.”
You can see what Mills is getting at here, but he’s surely gotten this one completely wrong. There’s no way that Giroud would usurp Sebastien Haller as West Ham’s number one striker.
It was evident in Moyes’ first game back that one of his priorities was to get the former Eintracht Frankfurt man firing again, and it worked. Haller scored and performed very well.
So why would the Hammers boss bring in Giroud – essentially an older version of his compatriot – and regularly play him over Haller?
The World Cup winner would be a fine second option behind the 25-year-old, sure, but certainly not a direct replacement for him in the starting line-up.
In other West Ham news, two first team players are thought to be out of their clash with Gillingham on Sunday.