Moyes call for a quick Italian job

One-week window for Hammers boss

DAVID MOYES wants to cut the transfer window down to a week and make deadline day an Italian-style free-for-all.

The West Ham boss hates January because it unsettles so many players and says the Hammers have been linked with more than 30 potential signings this month.

He would love the window to last seven days and feels the Italians are right in getting business done quickly and efficiently.

Thrash

Executives from all Serie A and B clubs assemble on deadline day in a Milan hotel along with agents and journalists, and even players.

They have all day to thrash out deals, which get rubber-stamped by league officials in the building.

Moyes said: “I don’t think we need a month, I think we should probably take it down to a week and then we wouldn’t have all the problems.

“A week where the work has to get done and if it doesn’t, then you don’t do it.

“It can be unsettling for players. In Italy, all the clubs come to same hotel for one day, all the chief execs ® and all the people, and they do the transfer business in the one day.

“You have to get it done by midnight to rubber stamp the deals, agents, everybody is in there. Maybe it would be better if we had a day like that here in England.”

The Hammers travel to Huddersfield today with strikers Javier Hernandez, Andre Ayew, Andy Carroll and Crystal Palace target Diafra Sakho having mustered just 11 Premier League goals between them this term.

All four have been linked with exits but Moyes said: “I don’t want any of them to go.

“We have got no players here that we want to leave. We need to add to our squad, so ideally we strengthen. We have four or five strikers and obviously the competition is tough for all of them.

“But I am happy with that and it would need to take an awful lot of money in this window to prise any of them away.”

Moyes fears Michail Antonio’s hamstring problem will force him to buy a right winger.

He said: “If so, we will need to go out to try to make a suitable signing this month.” THE Hammers have handed an indefinite ban, home and away, to the fan accused of making sick taunts about the death of Jake Livermore’s infant son.

The club said the man violated a number of ground regulations during the game against West Brom on January 2.

A spokesman said: “Abusive behaviour will not be tolerated.”