Hammers squad down to bare bones

By Sean Whetstone

West Ham will have one of the smallest squad’s in the Premier League on 1st July unless new players are signed before then.

Mark Noble, David Martin, Andriy Yarmlolenko, Ryan Fredericks, Alphonse Areola, Angelo Ogbonna and Alex Kral are all out of contract on 30th June leaving just 17 first time players. Lukasz Fabianski at least has signed a 12-month extension.

Hopefully, Alphonse Areloa will sign permanently by then and perhaps Ogbonna will be offered a new contract but that would only take the squad to nineteen.

With reports that Nikola Vlasic, Tomas Soucek, Arthur Masuaku, Darren Randolph and Said Benrahma could be sold if valuations are met that slim squad could shrink further in a doomsday scenario.

With pre-season starting in just four weeks David Moyes needs to soon hit the ground running to fill and reinforce his 25 man senior squad ahead of the new season which starts early on 6th August just nine weeks away.