West Ham United: Jesse Lingard transfer stance emerges amid recent London Stadium development

West Ham United have ruled out signing Jesse Lingard this month as the club focus on January attacking targets, according to the Daily Mail.

The UK newspaper outlet shared (11 January) that there are concerns at the London Stadium about the 31-year-old going so long without playing having left Nottingham Forest over the summer and is now a free agent.

West Ham have been forced into the market for January signings after confirmed injury blows to Jarrod Bowen and Lucas Paqueta on Tuesday (Roshane Thomas, 9 January), who have both been ruled out for at least a month.

Lingard trained with the East Londoners over the summer with a chance to sign with the club on a free transfer but West Ham have again made their same stance known, that they are not interested in bringing back the former Manchester United star.

Costly

Moyes will now be stuck between a rock and a hard place with this development at the London Stadium with now three of his most crucial and influential attackers now out of action.

Bowen is out for a month, and Paqueta and Antonio are now out for six weeks means Moyes is in a serious injury crisis at West Ham United and this can only mean one thing: David Sullivan must now let the cash fly to back Moyes and Tim Steidten this month with new signings.

The Irons have been linked with plenty of attacking targets over the past week already in Sunderland forward Jack Clarke, Ajax attacker Steven Bergwijn (HITC, 9 January) and Leeds United winger Willy Gnonto.

And now the chance of signing Lingard has cropped up again but the doubts over his match-fitness and readiness to perform at the top level are understandable plus his hugely significant wage demands could be incredibly costly and weigh on the Hammers’ wage bill when they are in need of numbers this month.

West Ham United have been superb all campaign long with their tremendous positioning in the table and their progress in the Europa League but their injury situation now leaves Moyes in a perilous situation.

Steidten and Moyes must now start making moves to strengthen the squad, even if it is panic stations at the London Stadium right now.