Manuel Pellegini looks all set to throw throw four hitherto unseen pre-season Hammers into action for the first time on Saturday afternoon.
He now has his full squad available following the arrival of new signings Pablo Fornals and Seb Haller plus Fabian Balbuena and Artur Masuaku back from their holidays after international duty.
All of them will be looking for minutes as pre-season enters it’s final stages with just Hertha Berlin and Atheltico Bilbao to come after the Craven Cottage friendly which will see Ryan Fredericks likely to appear against his former club.
We can expect to see Fabian Balbuena and Arthur Masuaku involved and an extended appearance by Winston Reid would be no surprise with the Kiwi looking in reasonable nick following a season out.
The centreal defender has played around 90 minutes in three outings so far and it would be no surprise were he to get decent time against the Cottagers.