ON Friday ahead of the Wolves fixture, West Ham were reported as signing their first striker Pablo, who was duly unveiled and presented to the fans and media with registration have been completed. Enabling him to be selected for the Saturday fixture.  What was all that about. The young man must have sat on the bench and wondered what he’s let himself in for after witnessing that spineless performance in the midlands.

After such a poor showing and with Nuno under such pressure, it was a huge surprise to hear today that West Ham’s next signing is still ‘on’ despite the woeful weekend showing.

It would be typically ‘West Ham’ to shelve thoughts of spending any more money until Nuno was either backed or sacked- and for the board to dither their way to the end of the window without making further commitments which would most likely condemn the Irons to the Championship.

So eyebrows raised all round today, to hear from givemesport’s Ben Jacobs and Matt Smith that:

“The Hammers aren’t messing around in the January transfer window, already completing the signing of Pablo from Gil Vicente. The striker started on the bench against Wolves on Saturday, with...