West Ham chief discusses deal to sign global striker

Manchester City are coming off a big win and will have high hopes that they can continue this good form as they travel to London where they will face West Ham in what is set to be a good game. The Sky Blues received a boost last weekend with both Arsenal and Leicester City dropping points to Stoke and Aston Villa respectively.

Emenike took off his shirt and walked off the field in protest but later returned to the game.

Not only that, they are playing a brand of football in keeping with the “West Ham Way” that supporters yearned for during the days of Sam Allardyce, as well as having beaten off competition from a number of rivals to sign the promising Sam Byram from Leeds United.

West Ham may have extremely talented and consistent midfielders, defenders and a goalkeeper, but they have struggled to find a consistent striker.

West Ham have had their injury problems this season and this match will be no different.

After defeat at Newcastle, Bilic may be tempted to shuffle the pack a little with Winston Reid returning at centre back and Victor Moses, who scored at Manchester City, replacing Michail Antonio.

Fernandinho has returned to training having missed City’s last three games with a knock, while Eliaquim Mangala (hamstring) and Wilfried Bony (calf) are also nearing returns.

That was only West Ham’s second victory against City in the previous 13 encounters between the teams.

West Ham will get an early example of what a huge squad can achieve, as there’s no better example of a club with recently changing fortunes than Saturday’s visitors to the Boleyn.

West Ham have outperformed everyone’s expectations of them this season and a lot of that is down to the form of Dimitri Payet. If anyone in that team can be clinical it’s Sergio Aguero.

The 8/11 (1.72) quote offered up for an away win is, however, somewhat skinny and better value can be found in backing the away team to come out on top in a match that features three or more goals at 7/5 (2.40) with Paddy Power.