West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has confirmed that his club offloaded players this summer in order to add a quality player in midfield.
The Hammers banked around £20 million this summer through the sales of Havard Nordtveit, Darren Randolph, Ashley Fletcher, Sofiane Feghouli and Enner Valencia, and are now looking to sign a new midfielder.
The East London club recently have been strongly linked with a move for Portuguese star William Carvalho, who boasts nine goals from 137 appearances for his club and has a release clause of £40 million in his contract.
Whilst talking about the speculation linking Carvalho with a move to his side, Bilic said, “Nothing new. I am not frustrated. It is a position we have been trying to do that (strengthen) for a couple of seasons now. We need someone to boost our team, quality and everything.
“We need that position and that is why we have offloaded some players to get the budget for him. I am not talking about the player (Carvalho), I am talking about the player for that position. The quality player not the quantity one. It is not easy to get them but we are doing our best.”
West Ham’s need to strengthen their side has been proven by their disappointing performances in the Premier League so far as they lost 4-0 to Manchester United and followed that up last weekend with a 3-2 defeat against Southampton.
