So who are West Ham trying to sign?

Finally Jorge "Jorginho" Pereira da Silva is getting his chance - after 25 goals in 34 matches for Hibernians in the Maltese Premier League - West Ham is prepared to gamble on the Brazilian striker. And they are right - I wouldn't have believed it :)
 
Where's Eto'o these days actually?
 
Or that Shakhtar bloke who was definitely going to sign for Chelsea?
 
Del Piero would be way too old :drool: :( (if he's even still playing in Aus)

he was in India for the ISL last year and he was poor. And its a league where Elano and Ian Hume score goals for fun. No way will he cuut it out now in PL
 
Maybe they'll let Benzema serve his prison time in Belmarsh and come out on Saturdays in leg irons?
 
Pato is the only long term option i can think of. He's been linked with them in the past too iirc. Would be a great signing if true.
 
Pato seems like another likely option but I still think it's more likely to be Seba Giovinco. He ticks all the right boxes.
 
Must be Pato, the rest are too old to be long-term.
 
Jackson Martinez is struggling at Atletico last time I heard
 
Jonathan Soriano? I think he's been banging in 20+ odd goals for RB Salzburg.
 
My money is on Gignac. The Brazilian league isnt very strange, but I would like to see PAto in the BPL

Edit: Giovinco would make sense too
 
Morata, Seria A is a bit odd nowadays imo.

But far more likely to be Pato as doubt any of the big clubs will take a chance on him, and seems he's begging for a transfer.
 
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see Brazil as a "very strange league". Burkina Faso 3rd division South, now that would be a very strange league. Otherwise it sounds a bit like Pato.
 
How is it any odder than any of the other big leagues?

I dunno it just seems a bit lost in the wilderness nowadays to me, I used to watch loads of it when it was in channel 4 it seemed like the main league at the time, it just seems to have lost its way a bit to me, and the demise of AC Milan is sad to see, not sure how they're going to get back to the old days given their finances.

'Odd' was perhaps a bit disrespectful, more a league that wasn't what it was, mind you the same could be said of the prem atm, but the finances are there to get this right eventually.
 
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The quotes in the OP distort what he actually says in the context. They want a 20 goal a season striker (who doesn't) and might be getting someone on loan,

I would have said Pato going off the quotes, but the Brazilian league is not "strange", as he put it. Nor would i say is the MLS. There are quite few players they could get from there.

He mentioned Lanzini, who was signed from Abu Dhabi, so i think more along those lines..