This story over at the Mirror – linking Bobby Zamora with a return to West Ham – seems to have raised a few heckles.
There’s nothing in the piece to suggest that it’s anything more than paper talk designed to fill out a page on the Sullivan-Gold takeover at Upton Park. The Hammers might be interested in buying a new forward, and some cover for the injured Carlton Cole could be valuable, but they would have to pay top dollar to sign him now, something only belatedly mentioned in the article.
Selling Zamora in this window would be a sure fire way for Fulham to recoup the money paid for him, something many of his detractors thought would never happen. But, whilst it might make economic sense, I can’t see Roy even contemplating it. Zamora’s our only real target forward and is clearly the first choice up front. He’s playing well and much of our attacking threat is based around his physicality. Not to mention he’s injured.
As a West Ham fan i always liked Bobby Z but more for his effort, hard work and endeavour than his talent. He scored some very important goals for us and we did miss him when he first went and every time we’ve been missing a striker or target man since. But having said all that, we know what type of player he is and it would be a backward step for the club to pay over the odds when Nouble will very shortly fill his shoes in that type of role.
Zamora is awfull. Nouble is just as bad if not worse. We need to either find a rising star or somebody already established and stop bringin in these nobodys and kids that cant play under pressure. Being at home is possibly worse for players that havnt proved them selfs. me being a west ham fan know we give um stick! Nouble proved against villa hes awfull. Zola gets till the end of next season, if we see no result. Sack his arse!
a bit naive there jae, nouble is very young and inexperienced, if we had never given kids a chance then collison, stanislas and tomkins would never have broke into the first team, nor would all the previous stars we’ve brought through and you know how many of them there are. bringing kids through is what we’re about and losing patience with a kid with loads of potential after 2 appearances is not only bad for us, it’s bad for all that we stand for. Zamora wasn’t the most talented striker but as a west ham fan, every time he pulled on that shirt he gave his all. In zola we finally, after so many years, have someone who understands and supports the west ham way of playing football. if you can think of a better manager that would stick with these principles, i’d love to know who it is. it certainly wouldn’t be anyone that gold and sullivan would want to splash the cash on. zola has done a very difficult job as well or better than any other premiership manager out there and with his hands tied behind his back.