The urgency to recruit at London Stadium was clear enough before Monday night’s dreadful Brentford defeat. The failure in successive windows to recruit a new frontman leaves the Irons with no top level goalscorer, Nuno Espírito Santo preferring an academy graduate to thirty three year old Callum Wilson who’s been described as finished by former Watford star-turned-pundit Troy Deaney.

The Hammers target in the winter has been reported as Red Devils’ out of favour frontman Joshua Zirkzee, who has been getting zero game time at old Trafford and was reported as wanting to leave on loan to try and boost his own selection chances ahead of the Netherlands’ world cup campaign.

West Ham are reported to have been preparing a bid to loan Joshua Zirkzee

Irrespective of his suitability as an out an out frontman, it appears there’s a catch: Reported by I-news.co.uk:

“West Ham are preparing a January loan move for disgruntled Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee. The i Paper has been told the club’s hierarchy share Ruben Amorim’s view that nobody is allowed to leave in January, whether Zirkzee or the similarly frustrated peripheral figure Kobbie Mainoo.”

Back to the drawing board, it would seem. The 24...