• Manager optimistic 24-year-old Tomas Soucek will join • Club trying to sell midfielder Carlos Sánchez
David Moyes has said West Ham have to stop buying players with no resale value and he hopes the impending arrival of Slavia Prague’s Tomas Soucek is the start of the club adopting a more progressive recruitment policy.
West Ham could drop into the Premier League’s bottom three on goal difference if they lose heavily at home against
Liverpool on Wednesday evening and there is a worrying admission about “serious financial consequences” of relegation in their latest accounts, which reveal a pre-tax loss of £28.8m in the last financial year. While the club pointed to a net spend of £214.4m on signings since moving to the
London Stadium in 2016, the stark reality is their work in the transfer market has lacked coherence.