It makes sense when you think about it. I loathe the idea of Barton in Claret & Blue but at £1.5m up front and future bail payments, he does look a bargain. He will certainly add some bite to the midfield. Sidwell used to score goals from midfield so he would seem a good replacement for Parker, whilst O'Hara is combative and can ping a pass.
Let's assume Behrami goes for £5m, we can have both Sidwell and Barton with £2m left over. O'Hara arrives, maybe on loan, as part of the Parker deal and that is centre midfield sorted. And I don't think we would be any weaker on the pitch and, if we get £6m for Parker, we still have £8m to play with.
There is a little nagging worry though. Barton and O'Hara have both played for relegated teams. (I think Sidwell was at Chelsea the season Reading went down but I'm not sure!).
The advantage of Sidwell and Barton is that both have Championship experience and would be very tasty indeed in the lower division. Their goals from midfield would fire us towards promotion and take the pressure off the youngsters.
Of course, all this assumes we have a free run at these players and other clubs might have something to say about that. But then again, who in their right mind would touch Barton with his discipline problems and O'Hara with his recent injury history? Both have "Made for West Ham" stamped all over them!
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Yeah, Joey Barton is gonna leave the club that stuck by him through two broken metatarsal's and a spell in prison to join a team which is bottom of the league.
He's settled with Newcastle and there's no chance he's gonna leave, especially not to join a club which are odds on to go down, he's already been relegated so I'm sure he doesn't wanna go through that again.
Not to mention the whole country was laughing at him and slagging him off when he was in prison, now when he picks up some form, every fan in the country thinks he's gonna join their team.
Sidwell we will get, but only because he can't get in another team in the league.
O'hara? Doubt it, and he's just recovered from a back operation so he's not gonna be match fit for a while, but may come if it's a swap deal with Parker.
Basically, West Ham would be very lucky to get any of them.
Newcastle have set a price for him.
It also assumes that the stories linking those players to WH have any truth to them which is unlikely.
Sidwell is the only one looking remotely realistic at the moment. The rest are just the usual pre-transfer window media speculation.
In any case, I don't see these players improving our first team. When fit, Collison, Hitz and Noble would all be in the first team ahead of this bunch of misfits.
Sounds like good business to me HF.
Pick up Chimbonda as another RB, Bridge and Santa Cruz or Keane on loan?
By george if that lot comes off we could actually stay up.
Is Avram giving someone out in that picture? He'd make a good umpire.
who in their right mind would consider west ham a good career move?
Avram Grant 16:46!
Ah you wag Stani... very funny - god knows why you come here though.
God knows everything mate!
God even knows why 1658 comes here! He obviously regards himself as sufficiently gormless and witless to visit the site given his disbelief that anybody of any wit and intelligence would bother!
Or he wants you all to himself HF :) Watch out, you have an admirer. I hope to God it's not Iain!
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