West Ham owners under pressure as shocking striker stats from last three seasons emerge

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West Ham United are desperate for firepower in the January transfer window and new statistics prove why.

The Hammers are enduring a poor second season under Slaven Bilic and are desperate for more firepower in the January transfer window.

The club has been linked with moves for Sunderland’s Jermain Defoe, Brentford’s Scott Hogan and Celtic star Moussa Dembele.

According to the Daily Mail, the Bhoys have told West Ham they will have to pay £30million to land a player they signed for a mere £500,000 in compensation to Fulham less than six months ago.

Sunderland’s Jermain Defoe

Meanwhile an £8 million move for Hogan was rejected by the Bees and the club has been forced to abandon a move for former player Defoe, as reported by Sky Sports.

Some West Ham fans are still upset with owners David Sullivan and David Gold after they failed to deliver the promised marquee striker signing in the summer.

Only Edimilson Fernandes has made any kind of positive impact from the 10 players signed on a variety of cheap free transfers or loan deals which have diluted Bilic’s squad this season.

West Ham co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold

Strikers Simone Zaza, Jonathan Calleri and record signing Andre Ayew have all flopped while young Ashley Fletcher has been used sparingly.

Many supporters feel such public talk of big spending from experienced football club owners was merely a ploy to sell season tickets – and it worked with 52,000 Hammers fans signing up for the first season at their new Olympic Stadium home, second only to Manchester United.

Those fans are very much of the opinion ‘we’ll believe it when we see it’ over the likes of Dembele and are refusing to get caught up in the current transfer talk swirling around the club.

But striker statistics from West Ham’s last three seasons have ramped up the pressure on Sullivan and Gold to get it right and bring in genuine quality.

In the last three Premier League seasons the Hammers have used a total of 14 strikers over 233 games with a paltry return of just 45 goals.

That’s a ratio of 5.1 games per goal, more akin to a side battling relegation than one aiming to compete with the Premier League’s elite after the big move to their new 60,000 ground.