West Ham confirm bid for En-Nesyri - Moyes wants to avoid another striking mistake

David Moyes has vowed not to add another striker to West Ham’s catalogue of expensive flops. Moyes is searching for reinforcements in attack before the January window closes, with injury-prone Michail Antonio currently his only recognised forward. The London Stadium boss has already offloaded both of West Ham’s record signings, Sébastien Haller and Felipe Anderson, signed by previous manager Manuel Pellegrini.

Haller, Carroll & Co. The most expensive centre-forwards signed by West Ham Click here for overview In recent years Chicharito, Lucas Pérez, André Ayew, Andy Carroll and Simone Zaza have all arrived for big money and with big reputations which they failed to live up to. Moyes admitted West Ham have bid for Sevilla striker Youssef En-Nesyri, and “knocked on the door of three of four really good players” as they search for a replacement for Haller. But the Scot insists he would rather rely on Antonio and his fragile hamstrings for the rest of the season than see West Ham make another costly mistake. The bid for En-Nesyri reportedly amounted to a total package of €30 million and was rejected by the Spanish club.

“What I don’t want to do is I don’t want to spend and waste my money, take a wage up bringing a player in, spend big money and find that actually, I’ve got it wrong,” he said. “I’d rather I waited and got someone who might be available in the summer. (…) No manager attempts to make a bad signing but I just want to try and make sure that any money I’m spending – because we don’t have a big pool of money – so I’m trying to spend it wisely. We’ve bought well with the likes of Vladimir Coufal, Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen. So I’ve got to make sure that I’m continuingly adding players of that ilk.”

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