West Ham United are yet to complete any form of transfer business this summer but murmurs in the press give some hope that David Moyes could bolster his side soon.
But might it all come at the expense of losing one of their star players?
Here’s how the Hammers could line up when the window slams shut in early October…
A lot has been made of Declan Rice’s future in east London with his former youth club Chelsea keen on adding him this summer.
According to The Sun, Frank Lampard is set to make a ‘firm bid’ for the English defensive midfielder and it’s claimed the Irons will need to sell before they buy this summer, so selling Rice for eight figures would certainly give room to do that.
He could be sold for around £80m.
It means GSB can splash the money on a new defensive option in Matty Cash, who Nottingham Forest will let go for £15m whilst Morgan Sanson may be the man to succeed Rice, albeit in a slightly more advanced position.
Therefore Thomas Soucek and Mark Noble can drop slightly deeper to accommodate the £25m playmaker.
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There’s also hope around the London Stadium that the likes of Felipe Anderson and Andriy Yarmolenko can be offloaded, which would surely open the door for Grady Diangana to take centre stage at long last.
The 22-year-old and Bowen on either wing could be quite the force to be reckoned with whilst Seb Haller gets the nod over Michail Antonio.
It does also mean that Aaron Cresswell remains as first-choice left-back.
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