West Ham have been urged to indicate ‘widespread sense’ by signing Brentford striker Ivan Toney this summer time.
The 28-year-old striker has been the topic of a lot switch hypothesis over latest months, with the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham closely linked together with his signature.
Brentford are regarded as demanding £60m for Toney — who has 36 Premier League targets in 85 appearances to his identify and was a part of England’s squad for Euro 2024 — which is placing some potential suitors off.
Nonetheless, Darren MacAnthony — the proprietor of Toney’s former membership, Peterborough United, the place he scored 49 targets in 94 appearances throughout all competitions between 2018 and 2020 — believes West Ham’s David Sullivan could also be ready within the shadows to attempt a cut-price strategy for Toney.
MacAnthony even believes it will be demonstrating an absence of ‘widespread sense’ if Sullivan and West Ham didn’t make an strategy for the striker.
“I feel for me, the betting man [in me] would say, understanding what David Sullivan is like at West Ham, he’s all the time preferred Ivan Toney,” he informed talkSPORT.
“He’ll try to mainly get him at a dropped-down cut price supply from Brentford.
“And I do know the Brentford folks and so they’d be like ‘no probability’. However I do know Sullivan will attempt, and if he had any widespread sense he would.
“It will be the very best signing West Ham have made in 12 years, as a substitute of a international striker for £70million who couldn’t hit a barn door.”
