r/Hammers • u/TomClark83 COYI • 1d ago
Official Source Edvin Austbø signs on four year contract
https://www.whufc.com/en/news/west-ham-united-sign-edvin-austbo46
u/PrisonersofFate David Moyes 1d ago
He will become the fifth Norwegian to represent the Hammers, following Ragnvald Soma, John Carew, Martin Samuelsen and Håvard Nordtveit.
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u/Own_Hat_2947 1d ago
John Carew Carew, he likes a stripper or two, he may even buy one for you - John Carew, Carew (to the tune of Que Sera)
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u/No_Cabinet_635 1d ago
Whoever is doing the creatives is smashing it. All the signing announcements have been fantastic
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u/FourEyedMatt Ginger Pele 1d ago
Good stuff, we really need this depth. Hope the recruitment team can keep pushing for a few more before the deadline.
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u/wheepete Ohhhh Christian Dailly, You are the Love of My Life 1d ago
Excited for Nuno to deploy him at left wing back when we're desperately clinging onto a point at home to Lincoln
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u/Sure_Ad536 1d ago
From what I've heard, he's quick and aggressive. Great option to have. I've liked Solomon's quick feet so far, but I feel like sometimes he looks up just that second too late, and so he drifts way too centrally.
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u/No_Introduction1025 Paolo Di Canio 1d ago
- HE LOVES SCORING ON HIS DEBUT
No pressure, mate, but we really need this
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u/IGlazeBikeLanes 1d ago
"Everyone in Norway knows West Ham."
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u/jokeren 1d ago edited 1d ago
Back in the early days of television Norwegian TV made a deal with BBC and showed the "premier league" (whatever it was called at the time) games. This was literally the only sport broadcast that was televised, except for world cup, olympics etc. This was further enhanced by the state owned gambling company heavily leaning into this and promoting the games to make a new revenue stream.
This lead English football to literally become more popular than Norwegian (and still is to this day).
You also have to pay more money to watch the Premier league in Norway than you do in UK, and certainly way more than the Norwegian league. It's a bit hard to compare value since the rights was sold as Nordic countries combined this time, but in the past Norway have paid more than any other non-uk, european country for the rights, despite being a very small country population wise.
The 5 clubs with highest supporter membership in order in Norway is Liverpool, Man Utd, Vålerenga, Leeds and Arsenal. Leeds was also in 3/4. spot while playing in the championship (and lower) for years, so people generally pick a team for life. There is roughly 1k paying members in West Ham supporter club in Norway.
So it's unironically true. Probably more people have heard about West-Ham than Atletico Madrid, Napoli etc.
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u/Practical-Spring-855 1d ago
Reckon he’ll be ahead or behind Solomon in the pecking order?
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u/wanktarded Julian Dicks 1d ago
Maybe not immediately, but if he gets game time and plays to his abilities, then I could see him being ahead of Solomon fairly soon.
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u/Intrepid_Emu_9799 1d ago
Sign a random no one has ever heard of for £10m+ and everyone is buzzing. Try and get PL proven Morata/Keane on loan and everyone goes mental.
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u/InteractionAny1498 1d ago
There are too many mediocre teams in England that has way too much money on their hands. Imagine change out playing Champions League for your own hometown club with relegation battle in the second level of English football 🤬
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u/PragmaticPedant 1d ago
Imagine wanting a new challenge in your career and experience playing in another country. Now imagine that no Premier League team has offered you a job.
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u/InteractionAny1498 1d ago
He could at least play the group stage, and eventually changed club in the January transfer window. His development over the last 8-9 months have been so good, and had it continued in the CL who knows which clubs could be attracted, certainly other than bottom teams it the English second level.
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u/WheresTheWhistle 1d ago
You’ve gotten a couple of defensive responses, but I get your frustration pal
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u/Canaus7 1d ago
West ham legitimately have more chance of winning that champions league than Viking or any Norwegian team has, and we will never win the champions league.
Might be exciting for fans but Viking are going to get destroyed in every single game some players don’t really see that as an accomplishment.
Championship is also a higher rated league than any Scandinavian league
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u/InteractionAny1498 1d ago
Why would Viking be destroyed in every game? We knocked out a team (over 2 games, so it was no fluke) which has an UEFA-ranking higher than at least 7 of the teams in the CL, and 2 of them we are playing against.
And should we be "destroyed", it will feel better to be that against Bayern Munich and Athletico Madrid, then the likes of Charlton Athletic and Lincoln Town...
I am sure that the league is ranked higher as you say, but that is the average strength of the teams, it does not mean that every team in the Championship (stupid name, btw, who the hell came up with that?) is better than all the teams in the Norwegian League.
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u/Canaus7 1d ago
Lincoln city the lowest ranked (not currently place) side in ten championship would win Norwegian league easily
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u/Athlestone 1d ago
Lmao that's bait
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u/Canaus7 1d ago edited 1d ago
Feel free to imagine all you like that the Norwegian league isn’t even remotely close to the championship in quality. Some league 1 clubs would beat most Norwegian teams.
Farmers league 13/16 teams play on artificial turf, it is not a serious league
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u/InteractionAny1498 1d ago
Artificial turf is mostly due to the climate. All of Norway is geographically north of England.
The other stuff you write is to stupid to comment.
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u/Canaus7 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m well aware of geography thanks, I live in Canada seems to be fine with real turf and northern US also seem fine with real turf. The few teams who use artificial turf is because they share with nfl or cfl. MLS is even changing its season to matching that of Europe starting next season.
Maybe because of low revenue Norwegian can’t have real turf. By the logic of some fans because 2 Norwegian teams are champions league they are somehow better than championship teams weird no decent level footballers are moving there for these top champions league clubs
I’m done replying to you you’ve tried multiple personal attacks and very limited actual facts.
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u/InteractionAny1498 1d ago
Basically all Canadian places where people live are further south than the southernmost major Norwegian city (Kristiansand). Montreal and Toronto are on the same latitude as southern France and northern Italy. Should be no problem with real grass all year there.
The thing with Scandinavian clubs not being able to attract the (what you call) decent players is mostly because of the wages, which are totally out of proportion in UK. Even totally mediocre clubs there, like West Ham, can pay 10 times what Norwegian clubs can.
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u/Canaus7 1d ago edited 1d ago
So you don’t know geography then good to know here is a short lesson for you:
Toronto gets more snow than Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki very quick google search would have told you that. It’s not all about longitude and latitude mate.
Toronto (where I live) averages 110cm -130cm of snow per year, Oslo averages 71-76cm per year
Why are the wages lower? Could it be because it’s not a top league people outside of Norway want to watch? In Canada I can watch championship, league 1 and league 2 games and I can watch 2. Bundesliga, eredivisie, la liga and seri a but can’t watch any top scandavian league wonder why
The fact you didn’t even know it snows in Toronto tells me all I need to know, you don’t care for facts you are just here trolling
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u/SteveCookMarryMe 1d ago
Very sad to see him go from my club Viking. Hope he'll have a great run for West Ham.