Kieron Dyer is obviously top of the list. And it took a brave man (Mike Ashley) to hold out for an extra £1m for a player who hasn't played more than half the games in a season for eight of the ten years he spent at St James' Park.
It wasn't so much "will Dyer get injured" ... it was a betting game in the pubs on Tyneside on how many games he would play before being ruled out for the rest of West Ham's season! He managed TWO and went down in the third.
Owen For West Ham £17m?
Now West Ham manager Alan Curbishley has spoken about Craig Bellamy's recent injury and ongoing recovery, and Bellars has even refused (unlike him) to listen to the club doctor ... and gone for a second opinion!
Curbishley: "He's trained Thursday and Friday perfectly, then felt sore again, so we've had to pull him out again, so we have some thinking to do about the injury. We don't think it is particularly serious but we have to get to the bottom of it.
"Since he's been with us he's been wearing different orthotics to help an old injury, and it has worked, but it has caused something else.
"He's got this groin strain, which we don't think is any more than that."
And of course there is the ever-dependable Scott Parker. The man with the 100% record in coming second in 50-50 tackles.
West Ham will discover today whether the midfielder faces another spell on the sidelines after he limped out of Saturday's 1-0 defeat against Arsenal with a knee injury.
The Hammers could be without Parker for some time after he went off with a recurrence of the knee ligament injury which had kept him out for two months.
With the January transfer coming nearer, do the Hammers fancy Michael Owen for £17m; Emre £5m; Peter Ramage £1m; Celestine Babayaro £1; Damien Duff £5m; and Shola Ameobi (free if you want him)?