Hammers ‘fab four’ ready for United debuts

Chicharito, Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta and Marko Arnautovic are all set for their Hammers debuts at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Slaven Bilic – in giving the news – added that Michail Antonio, Manuel Lanzini, Cheikhou Kouyate, Andy Carroll and Diafra Sakho still working their way back to fitness.

He said: “Most of the injuries we have now are from last season. Michail was injured against Swansea in April and the plan was for him to miss a couple of games because he had an operation, it was not just an injury but a big one.

“He was prepared to miss a couple of games and was and is ahead of schedule. He’s a good healer, strong, mentally strong, a hard worker and a bit of a monster also, physically!

“So, the fact is he is ahead so he’s playing on Friday night for the U23s  but he has been in training with us since Monday, he is playing tonight and he should be in the squad, at least, for the game against Southampton. That was planned.

“Andy is a bit further behind but not a lot. At one stage in the pre-season or even last year, he was way behind but now it looks better. He is training individually, still, but he is basically doing all the movements with the ball and all that. If it continues like this, he should train with us next Wednesday.