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West Ham’s August Payment to Frankfurt is Clearly Due

By Adam Smith

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 21: Jordan Hugill of QPR applauds fans following defeat during the Sky Bet Championship match between Queens Park Rangers and Swansea City at The Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium on August 21, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 21: Jordan Hugill of QPR applauds fans following defeat during the Sky Bet Championship match between Queens Park Rangers and Swansea City at The Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium on August 21, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) /
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West Ham have made their second move of the transfer window, selling another striker, this time Jordan Hugill, for a massive loss for no logical reason.

Logical was intentionally added to the opening of this piece because for any Premier League club you shouldn’t be financing your past transfer moves on the sales of current players, but for West Ham, the circus is doing just that.

Football.London’s Sam Inkersole has just stated that West Ham’s sale of Hugill to Norwich, when combined with Albian Ajeti’s £5m sale, will mean the two strikers who were brought in for a combined £18m were sold for just £10m. Not to mention, neither were given any reasonable chance to play for the club to prove their worth.

The only reason this sale happened is clear, West Ham are due to play Frankfurt their £5m installment for August for Sebastien Haller’s transfer from last summer. It’s the exact same reason why Ajeti was sold the month prior. West Ham are in shambles when it comes to the board and are actively hurting the team and the manager to make up for their cheapness.

Hugill is coming off of a great season for QPR in the Championship. The English centre-forward netted 15 goals in 41 matches in all competitions. For a record like that in the extremely competitive Championship, the fee returned is embarrassing.

Worse yet, the crazy and ridiculous fee West Ham charged Norwich for Hugill is apparently a £2.5m base fee with clauses to increase it to the maximum of £5m! Holy, how did these people amount enough money to buy a football club when they can’t even sell a striker for an undervalued loss in one fee!

Hugill probably shouldn’t have been bought in the first place, but when he was here he needed to be played. After two loans where he scored regularly, he wasn’t looked at again and is now gone for a fee far too low. Now, sold to NOT QPR, the recruitment of Eberechi Eze is likely done, too.

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No one has anything positive to say about the West Ham board, and rightfully so as the Jordan Hugill saga proves just how incompetent they are at running a football club. All faith is quickly disappearing as West Ham creep closer to the start of the season without any new faces entering the team.