Exciting market moves on cards IF we win tonight

Slaven Bilic may again give the thumbs up to a move for Carlos Bacca – should the striker show an interest in joining the Hammers – after tonight..

The club believe entry into the Europa Cup proper tonight could have a bearing on Bacca’s attitude towards finally agreeing to come to the club.

And Bilic – despite his reservations about ‘dragging players to the club’ -admits: ““He’s a good player, he’s an option because we tried to sign a player in that position even before the ­injuries. He’s a centre-forward.

But I’m the manager, I don’t negotiate, I say to the chairman and to Tony Henry, we talk and then they do it.”

An offer of around £96,000 a week plus bonuses – around double his salary at Milan – has been on the table for weeks.

So it may well be that there will be a lot more at stake than imagined when the team step out at The London Stadium tonight with the possibility of a very exciting final week of the transfer market in prospect should they win.