West Ham have made their intentions very clear in their hunt for a new striker this month.
After long-term injuries to Michail Antonio and Niclas Fulkrug, the Hammers have been on a frantic hunt for new recruits since the transfer window opened at the beginning of the year.
With under two weeks of the window remaining, Graham Potter still has only Danny Ings available as his only senior striker.
Interest in the likes of Even Ferguson, Taiwo Awoniyi, Marcus Rashford and Rodrigo Muniz has been reported extensively, but none of those players have seemed even remotely close of joining Potter’s East End revolution.
Now it appears West Ham have chosen their main man.
Ajax’s Brian Brobbey is now at the very top of West Ham’s wishlist and they are pulling out all the stops to ensure the Dutch international is a Hammer before the February 3rd transfer deadline.
According to De Telegraaf, Ajax want a deal worth €35m, which West Ham are allegedly happy to pay. On top of that, in discussions with Brobbey’s representatives, they’ve also offered the 22-year-old €100k-a-week to tempt him to the capital. It would make him one of the top earners at the club.
It’s not yet known whether it’s a big enough offer to tempt Brobbey, but West Ham have made it very clear to his entourage that they see him as the perfect fit for Potter’s new look West Ham and want him in claret and blue by the end of this month.
Brobbey has had a difficult season in the Netherlands, scoring only three and assisting another seven in 29 appearances in all competitions.
However, he does have 78 goal contributions in 148 first-team outings for the Dutch giants, which is an impressive record for someone not yet in his prime.
If a deal can be struck and Brobbey completes a move to London Stadium, it will be the third play West Ham have signed from Ajax in the last two years, having already signed Edson Alvarez and Mohammed Kudus from the Amsterdam outfit.
