West Ham have denied any interest in Croatian central defender Domagoj Vida who enjoyed an impressive World Cup campaign with finalists Croatia
Reports arose out of Turkey this morning that the Besiktas central defender had been the subject of a €22 million bid but that was immediately knocked back by Hammers insiders.
A senior source said that the manager was now happy with his central defensive position and that the club was now looking for a back up striker.
That is the last piece of the Hammers squad jigsaw puzzle to be fixed and although there are no names available, ClaretandHugh has been assured that’s the one area the club is now looking at hard.
Our source: We have reinforced at the back but it is clear that with Andy Carroll injured we need to take a look at that situation.
“We want to bring in another striker and will be working hard on that over the next weeks before the window closes.”