This is only single-sourced, but it is from the same person who told me Calum Davenport was about to sign for us in January, so I passi ton for what it is worth. It seems Eggert Magnusson has lodged a sizeable bid with Spurs to ecure Jermain Defoe’s services. He knows Defoe is nervous about returning to West Ham because of the likely reaction from a section of the fans, but Magnusson is hoping it will be clear to him that he will be fourth in the running for a first team place at Spurs now they have signed Darren Bent.
I remain of the view that Defoe is a class player who would be a brilliant acquisition for us. He scored plenty of goals for Spurs last season despite not being in the team some of the time. He would provide a good contrast to Dean Ashton and ought to play well off him. I hope this rumour has some truth to it.
Yer YER
re west ham fan no 32
spot on in saying that the racism is unacceptable and that most west ham fans don t approve of it. but the fact is a number of spurs “fans” ,if you can call them that ,bring on the racism themselves by the way in which they carry on. a look at the postings from the majority of spurs fans on this blog over the last day shows why people (even though it s not right) choose to play the race card. a section of spurs support makes it a very easy option . there was a time when i had a degree of sympathy for spurs fans having to endure racist taunts . i don t feel any sympathy now. even though racism is wrong ,on and off the pitch, spurs supporters have earned their poison by acting like contemptuous louts.
what have totts achieved in the last decade? what do u have to show for giving it large ? you have no results to show for it ,despite spending slly money for years. a few good players is what you have ,which after what you ve spent years on years is no surprise,but you re no closer to challenging the top 4 ,with or without bent.
Lads;As I said before,stop rising to their pathetic bait. Spurs fans will eventually go away and hide under their brick,Yes I did say BRICK!
We are much wiser than them so just let them get on with it.
We will rise above them.
We are WEST HAM UNITED………….
Darren Bent I salute you, you made the right decision in not joining that pony two bob team west spam, you will be playing in the champions league next season that I am sure, spurs have so many excellent young english players, I look forward to you scroing at least 5 goals against against the spammers next season.
“superyid’-another one of life s great failures
What a joke you spammers are. We have a bigger history, fan base, better team & are in europe for the second season coming. You want Defoe, one of you winks typed that maybe he needs a new challenge?? By returning to crapton park, perrrrrlease!
tottenham =graceless,classless,unprofessional .
you are an embarrasment to your religion.
you even refer to yourselves using a racist ,derisory term. you have no self-respect . you allow people to refer to you in racist terms because you have no pride.
You refer to yourselves as Irons, you oof!!! Why not try a bid for Mido? Big fish in a small pond and all that, could do welll for you….
sceond -rate tottenham
another totts no hoper with nothing better to do with his life but post tripe on another club s blog
low-rent,useless . money can t buy you love. never did ,never will.
no job prospects. no promotion prospects .no prospects for a raise. because you re the type the expresson “couldn t get laid in a brothel ” comes from.
He he hee, how bitter we are! COYS
PaddyHammer, the voice of reason. This sounds like an interesting conversation so as a Spurs Fan here is my opinion.
1) Are Spurs a bigger club than West Ham? – yes just as Arsenal and Chelsea are bigger than Spurs at the moment. Being big is about attracting players not about whether you’ve got good fans (that just helps attracting players). Things can change very quickly and I am sure that West Ham will do well next year.
2) Defoe is a great player and will do well for you if you get him. He was out of order the way he handed in his transfer request the last time he was at West Ham but don’t hold it against him. At the moment Defoe is one of the few top quality players who might consider joining you so the morons who are threatening to make his life a misery are shooting yourselves in the foot. West Ham could still be relegated so you are not the greatest draw in the world.
3) Arsenal, Man Utd, Aston Villa, Man City, Newcastle, Sunderland, Liverpool, Fulham – all looking for a quality striker who can give them 20 goals a season. Defoe got 18 as 3rd choice at Spurs. Can you really afford to turn your noses up at him?
4) Don’t want him to go but would rather we sell him now than see him walk on a Bosman in 2 years. You should snap him up if you can.
5)I doubt anyone is still reading this so “they tried to make him go to West Ham, but he said no, no, no..” Daren Bent will do the business for us no doubt.
Keep blowing those bubbles happy hammers.
You Iron Oofs think you’re a bigger club than Spurs, can you understand why we laugh at this so much? Bunch of bells..
By the way My Hammer Says, you havent got a clue about racism if you think that when we sing Yid Army we have no self respect. We are claiming back the term Yid from the people who use it as an insult, celebrating the rich history of Jewish allegience and us as a multicultural club. Try looking for black or asian fans at West Ham or Chelsea and compare them to the crowds at Spurs or Arsenal. Its you eastenders who need to take a look at yourselves, not us.
you re not claiming anything back except your own ignorance . you wouldn t know what multicultural was if someone greasepainted it onto your face. you don t celebrate anything except the perpetuation of a bad stereotype. all you achieve is inviting a continuation of the racism. you re a disgrace to your religion, but thats what tottenham fans do. they meekly surrender because they have no courage,no balls ,no ambition, no vision.
you have no ethics, you have nothing. because you don t know how to graft . you expect to be given it on a plate. you hide behind the cloak of anonymity and you depend on daddy,sugar or otherwise to look after you. weak willed pathetic excuse for a human being
Iain – I know it’s Sunday night and you are probably otherwise engaged, but what the hell has happened to your fantastic blog site for genuine (and intelligent) Irons? It appears to have been temporarily (hopefully) infiltrated by the usual sorts of dipsticks that frequent other chat rooms usually!
Sort out the filters old chap, eh?
dream on bish bosh black cab driver boys
egghead can have mido for 10 million thats the going rate for you lot of desperardos.
is he for sale yeah yeah i’ll pay it i’ll pay it just sign for us i’ll pay him 80k a week and all the hob nobs he can eat!!!!
yoyo hammers make me laff nob jockys
COYS
WE R DE BEST DEFOE WILL COME AN BENT NXT YR ” PLUS BREBTATOF IF WE WNT HIM YEH EGGY WIULL SORT US OWT
YEAH YEAH YIDZ WE WILL AV DEFO BACK AN DARREN BENT AN BREBATOF NXT YR TOO IF WE WANY THUM EGGY WILL SORT US OWT HES FUBKIN MINTED
FARK OFF SPADZ
Excuse me ny hammer but I am not Jewish I am a London born Cypriot so I probably know a bit more about multiculturalism than most. Yid was a term used by Jews to describe themselves and was later turned into a term of abuse by whites. That is quite the opposite of some terms I won’t mention, which were exclusively created as forms of abuse. We don’t hide from our history, we celebrate it. I am not in the business of slagging off other clubs or sets of fans, who we all choose to follow is as much an accident of birth and upbringing as it is choice. To say we have no courage, no balls etc shows nothing but your own ignorance. I may think you are a sad loser but I wouldn’t dream of extending that thought to the rest of the West Ham fans.
That Eggert Magnusson, a Tottenham fan don’t you know….
nothing better to do with your time than enter other clubs blogs to insult people?
another desperate spud with no hope, no future ,no chance of a life.
all you ve got jumbo is your lightweight 9 to 5 and trawling other clubs sites.
sum total of your existence . not much to show fo rit, but par for the course
ny – as a regular, informed contributor to these pages, U am surprised you allow yourself to be dragged into these daft people’s wind-ups!
You can’t touch this.
celebrating your history doesn t involve glorifying offensive,racist language. and making excuses for it by saying it was turned into a term of abuse later, rather than from the start IS
hiding from your history. and as for it being YOUR history ,it isn t . did you buy it the five and dime then? Don t even go there about claiming that your ethnic background makes you an expert on multiculturalism. ignorant ,time wasting loser – whose life is summed up by making inaccurate ,infantile comments about upton park. go to a match at upton park and ,unless you re blind, you ll see there are plenty of ethnic groups represented enjoying a good day out and happy to support west ham. keep your religious sermons in your library where they belong.
flick the bait and the fish will bite lmfao
reel em in baby reel em in!
bish bosh bish bosh guess who i had in the back of my cab the other day
keep teddy you may need him the way its going for you lot lmfao
COYS
im not well you know
anyone seen me caravan?
to the headmaster . it s simple . they don t belong on here . the issue isn t that they re tottenham fans , or that they have a different point of view. thats fine. but to come on to the blog solely for the purpose of insulting people and being offensive isn t fine. if they want to be offensive and insulting they can do it on their own club s sites. and additionally if they want to use racist terminology, or terminology that can be perceived as racist by some, it should be done on their own site ,not ours. and if my response involves reminding them that if they need to be insulting and derisive on other people s blogs ,that poof that they have no life , then so be it. you and i don t go on to their sites- we leave them to it. and leave them to it i m content to do,except when they persistently take the mick.
ny hammer I haven’t used the kind of language you have and I am not going to start. It is not a waste of time visiting other teams sites, it is a sign of an open mind. You can call me lots of names if you like but you are only embarrasing yourself and to be quite frank I think you are probably a decent bloke underneath all that big talk of yours but you think that its ok to hide behind the anonymity of the internet and give it large. Don’t bother. I came onto the site because I am interested in what West Ham fans had to say because staying in the ghetto of your own backyard is boring all the time. Try and embrace other points of view every once in a while. It will make life richer for everyone.
im not feeling well i my head.
is gary neville ok now is my 3 match ban over now?
can i play my 3rd game for westham now?
anyone seen my caravan?
visting other clubs blogs solely for the purpose of insulting or offending people doesn t show an open mind. quite the opposite it shows a closed ,infantile mind. embracing other people s points of view doesn t include reading posts that are 99 percent pure insult. and 99 percent of spurs fans responses being offensive tripe enriches nobody s life. you personally maybe different ,or the exception to the rule, but the it s plain as day on this site today that most of your fellow supporters came onto the sight soley for the wrong reasons.
Some people on this site need to get a life. If the debate is about WHU signing Defoe well lets keep it on that particular subject. As a Spurs fan I would like to keep Defoe at the Lane, He will have a part to play in our clubs future. If WHU fans cant get over his way of leaving that I can understand but he was YOUNG, and ILL- ADVISED and now is much more experienced. J.Defoe would be a prolofic goalscorer if he returns to UPTON PARK, but I hope we never see him play there for the home team, he must always go there as a Spurs player.
So whats going on at WHU.??? Faubert has signed for £6.1 Mills. but his agent says he wanted to sign for Rangers last week and his heart was set on that move. Apparently , his club told him to go to West ham or nowhere.The guy has been forced to go to WHU. Now thats a warning to all WHU supporters. why sign reluctant players???. BAD vibes ahead for WHU. Call me whatever you like but when a player is told to sign for a club he isnt interested in , well thats a bad recipe.
a reasonable and intelligent response from John the spurs fan . i agree with respect to him being young and ill advised at the time he handed in the transfer request ,although i still don t think that fully excuses him for it. i think what real west ham fans have a bigger issue with is that in the 6 months he spent with us in the championship , he appeared to almost deliberately get himself red carded twice,which could have prevented us reaching the play-offs. the attitude he showed toward teh club with respect to the sendings off is what still irks a lot of west ham fans. whoever he plays for he would contribute to -it can t be argued that he s anythng less than a very good striker. the question almost turns back to him- can he cope wih potentially being the fourth choice striker at spurs? only he can decide if he can handle that , and how important it is to him to play first team football.
agree on faubert- i think bringing a player in unwillingly is a big mistake . it can t be right as the guy simply won t have his heart in it,irrespective of the money. what looks like the likely departure of benayoun has complicated things. to lose coker is one thing, as bringing parker in covers that loss. but losing the width and skill benayoun provides when he s fully motivated is a major loss. and it puts pressure on west ham to deal with that gap in the wide midfield area sooner rather than later. even more so with us looking short of one quality striker at the moment. to be one wide midfielder short , or one striker short is one thing at the start of the season- to be below full strentgh in both areas cme august 31 would be a real problem .
Defoe would be a great re-signing. He scored a lot of goals for West Ham and Tottenham, and why Jol is treating him like a bit-part player is beyond me. It would be wonderful to keep Tevez but I suspect his wanker of an agent will demand too much. And despite what everyone says about Marlon, I think he’s a matchwinner who can score crucial goals, and I for one will miss him if he goes. I don’t know the behind-the-scenes stuff but, if he wants to stay, we should hold on to him.
impressive blog! I’m first time here and I’m sort of West Ham fans, too! Not exactly THAT huge fans but I like this club when It’s under Alan Pardew! And now wuould be Boby Zamora and more! I’ll come and visit your blog here, if I’ve the free time!
Keep up the good work! And I believe West Ham won’t down with your supports along the way 
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Defoe would be a great signing.
Forgive and forget…Just like the war
Hammeron you are spot on mate, Defoe would be great for us
ny hammer.
so its ok for your fans to come on our blog sites and give it all the mouth but we cant.Double standards mate.
caravan my point is this-
i think you ll find that most of the people who come on to thi sparticular westham blog are not looking to find fault with or attack other clubs supporters unless provoked. other sites may be different, but most people going to this blog are just interested in transfer news etc, perhaps an exchange of views on things at the club ,no more no less. yeah there will be a few exceptions , and yeah there will be the odd person on here who unfortunately spews racist abuse, but in my experience thats been rare, and again, only occurred when people have been provoked. that s not an excuse- the racist language shouldn t happen full stop regardless.
there were a few posts from supporters yesterday on here that were fair , reasonable and accurate- unfortunately they were the minority.
in terms of west ham supporters who go to spurs sites ,i can t comment on that as i don t visit other clubs blogs , but i would agree that they shouldn t be giving it the big one on your sites ,and vice -versa.
the whole issue about what s going to happen with defoe is an interesting one and it s ashame that animosity gets in the way of a reasonable discussion about it.
but if if you re exepecting people who regularlu use this site for the right reasons to just sit back and accept a large majority of spurs supporters taking the mick or worse ,not a chance. almost none of the tripe could even be referred to as good natured banter. in which case perhaps it could have been overlooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAcMg1ZkIX0 the new guy
I’ve thought at length about Defoe’s return and I’ve come to the conclusion that I really couldn’t stomach it, regardless of his abilities. I can rationalise all sorts of parts of the deal so that it makes sense, but I really can’t find anything to placate feeling I got when he kicked us in the teeth 24 hours post relegation. Handing in his transfer request like that still rankles, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive and forget. Certainly nothing he’s said since has done much to quell the flames of anger still burning at the pit of my stomach.
Trickywhu1 thank for the show of the talent mate. Greate player. Cant wait till the season kicks off
Cool
re herts hammer-
hear what you r e saying mate. even if you allow for the fact that he was young and inexperienced ,it s hard to see really having his heart in it now. how committed would he be? or would he be looking at west ham merely as temporary shelter for a possible move to one of the top 4 down the road? he bore part of the responsibility for us being relegated in 2003 , because although ne created cartloads of chances ,he converted too few of them. he hit the bar and the post plenty ,but didn t put enough in teh back of the net . the home game against villa that season was crucial and is an example of what i m talking about. i m not sure defoe is capable of committing himself to any club
fully ,and as such i m not sure i d be keen for the club tr try to build a future that includes him. yes he s got talent- that s undeniable. but we ve run into trouble before with players who have talent, but seem either less than committed (benayoun) or to have discipline/attitude problems(coker). it s a very difficult decision with no easy answer. price is an element as well. to risk the money that s been spent on a player like bent for example to me isn t worth it . if the price were far more reasonable,that becomes a factor as well. i think another thing to consider is that to atone for teh manner in which he left th eclud, he d need to hit the ground running to win over at least some of the supporters. this would put under a bit of pressure , and it s debatable how he d cope with that added pressure.
You shitheads can keep your second rate signings
Your Mum must be so very proud of you.
Anyway, ignoring the half-wit Spud fans, I’d just like to say that I’m overjoyed that Reo-Joker is about to pack his bags and clear off… And 8 mill to boot! I feel for Villa, they’ve just signed a footballer who can’t play football!
Two new players in before our first pre-season match… One of them could be SWP (fingers crossed).
This is a site were every one gets a long so why dont use Jew Boy’s Fuck off and stop muging every one of.