West Ham are expected to sanction the sale of nine first-team players this summer in what would be the biggest exodus and overhaul of any relegated team in living memory.
The report comes from the Mail Online, who were discussing Mateus Fernandes‘ potential move to Manchester United.
As reported exclusively by Claret & Hugh last night, there has been no offer for Fernandes from Old Trafford despite numerous media reports suggesting otherwise.
However, the Mail article goes much further than merely discussing Fernandes’ future. It suggests not only that the midfielder will depart, but that a whole host of first-team players could follow him out of the door.
Nine Players “Expected To Be Sold”
As well as Fernandes and Edson Álvarez, the report claims Soungoutou Magassa, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Crysencio Summerville, Jean-Clair Todibo, Malick Diouf, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Taty Castellanos are all “expected to be sold”.
Jarrod Bowen’s name is notably absent from the list, although that looks as much a reasoned guess as anything else.
It’s fair to say West Ham are not currently briefing anybody with a definitive list of departures. Therefore it would be wise to treat the Mail’s claims with a pinch of salt.
If anything, club insiders have tended to play down suggestions that individual players are being actively made available, although it remains something of an open secret that many members of the squad could be sold this summer.
Nuno Would Be Left With Bare Bones
When Callum Wilson, Axel Disasi, James Ward-Prowse and Keiber La Madrid are added to the departures already being suggested, the figure rises to an astonishing 13 players leaving.
That number becomes even more remarkable when you consider Bowen, Tomáš Souček and Alphonse Areola have all been excluded from the Mail’s list.
| Position | Player |
|---|---|
| GK | Hermansen |
| RB | Walker-Peters |
| CB | Kilman |
| CB | Mayers |
| LB | Scarles |
| CM | Souček |
| CM | Kanté |
| AM | Earthy |
| RM | Bowen |
| LM | Ajala |
| CF | Pablo |
Certainly, if the report proves accurate, Nuno Espírito Santo would be left with a threadbare squad desperately in need of reinforcements.
And all of that before West Ham have even appointed the elusive recruitment expert they have spent months promising.
Sports “news” from the Daily Fail are about as truthful and reliable as their political rants
What a lot of twaddle.
One minute Sullivan says don’t have to sell and then 13 are suggested leaving.
Leaving a team that couldn’t start on Hackney Marshes.
Too much scaremongering amounting to rumours namely from agents and media.
Can believe Fernandez and Summerville will go as that’s bulk of incoming money.
From past experience whu are not organised enough to sell and buy that many players.
Kretinsky has until end of June we’ll wait and see just don’t hold your breath.
Transfer season don’t start until 15 June that’s when a more assessment will start.
1st September will see whu still bidding usual style.
TBH, I won’t be too sorry if they all leave. I think Soucek is the man to lead us out of the Championship, beyond him, let’s start again.
Looks like an average division one team at best. We will be chasing Leicester for sure…
Fullkrug also will be sold and JWP, Cornet too possibly?
In honesty it’s expected though if they can’t move the players fast like before the World Cup it will make next season a real challenge as Nuno won’t have a chance to drill the new players into a system.
More Mail nonsense. If nothing else many teams are financially struggling – we often seem to believe that West Ham is alone in having debts – so the ability of other teams to buy players you ‘list’ to sell is limited. West Ham might (and I stress might) be willing to listen to offers from a wide range of players, but in the anticipation that only five or six of them might find buyers.
+ Freddie Potts; Sell Pablo contributed absolutely nothing apart from huffing & puffing. Callum Marshall deserves a chance instead of him. Sell Areola, promote youth.
Give a proper well defined role to a new DoF; keep Sullivan away from any transfer activity. Always look to buy young players with potential to improve eg Fenandes, Diouf.
Lol, aren’t we all depressed enough already without believing the garbage that paper treats the world to. Of course we will loose players and some of those will want to go but Kretinsky has his head screwed on enough to know that the health of his investment is dependant on the return to the cash cow of the premier league. Alot of deep breaths required between now and August but got to at least try and keep the faith.
Might we get Vlad Coudal to come back and ensure a promotion season?
Backroom structure and personnel are vital right now.
Build from the bottom up. Get players for now and not for future values.
COYI
The Mail is hardly a reliable and truthful source, please stop quoting their ridiculous claims!
It has all the hallmarks of the usual transfer window fiasco. Weeks of bobbing & weaving, ducking & diving, achieving nothing. Then last minute panic buying of mostly duds often at inflated prices.
The team above would struggle to stay in the Championship !
Nero and Canute both spring to mind, pull your finger out DS ffs.
You’re right, he’s a massive Canute…
😂
Never have believed anything quoted in Daily Mail.
A rubbish rag!
Similar to 2003 we should never have gone down with that starting XI. All good players (minus Pablo) and therefore clubs are very interested in them.
Issue we have, and have had for years, we have no squad to speak of so it’s now an overhaul and means new players will need time to acclimatise to the nut house that is West Ham.
2003 was worse. If I recall correctly the following left that summer: Di Canio, Kanoute, Les Ferdinand, Bowyer, Sinclair, Cisse, Moncur, Joe Cole,, Winterburn, Minto, Schemmel, Gary Breen, Glen Johnson, Van Der Gouw, Labant, Titi Camara, Leon Britton. That’s 17. I still recall the backpage of the Daily Mirror that summer with a lighbulb and several faces of West Ham’s departees and the headline ‘will the last one to leave West Ham please switch off the lights’.
and then Defoe left after getting himself red carded about 3 times in the autumn, Michael Carrick followed the next summer after.
…..and David James, who joined Manchester City in January.