West Ham followed on from their difficult back-end of last season under Graham Potter with a shock opening day defeat to newly-promoted Sunderland which puts them under immediate pressure
Graham Potter has insisted West Ham cannot spend their way out of trouble and even £200m does not guarantee success.
The Hammers made an unhappy start to the season after defeat at Sunderland and they face Chelsea on Friday night on the back of a frustrating transfer window. West Ham have spent in excess of £60m on Jean-Clair Todibo, Mads Hermansen and El Hadji Malick Diouf as well as bringing in free transfers Callum Wilson and Kyle Walker-Peters.
The pressure is on Potter straight away and yet he says West Ham have a “history” of buying players but spending big is no “silver bullet” solution. Hammers boss Potter said: “If I look historically, I think historically West Ham have spent money, have signed players. Signing players is easy, believe you me. You could do it. It’s easy. It doesn’t mean that they’re going to be the right ones.
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“It doesn’t mean to say that the team’s going to improve. It doesn’t mean to say that in six months’ time you’re stuck with a player that’s on too much money, that’s too old and you can’t sell them.
“We need a few silver bullets there, not just one. We need a few silver bullets. I think we analyse the squad and we analyse where we think the improvements can be and then we have to try to work within the financial position of the club to make the right decision to bring the right player and the right person here.
“All these things you have to take into consideration. It would be easy for me to sit here and say it would be nice to have £200 million to spend but that’s not the case.
“So I have to work with what I have responsibly and with the club together to make sure we’re aligned, to make sure that we end the window stronger than when we started it.”