The club are being tight lipped on the actual positions and the targets being worked on but the stops are being pulled out to get one or both of the deals over the line.
David Moyes is looking for a goal keeper, centre back, attacking midfielder and striker and has been identifying targets in a difficult summer transfer market.
Dozens of names have been linked over the summer, perhaps as many as a hundred but the manager is adamant he wants to improve the squad by adding quality to go one better than last season when West Ham missed out on Champions League by just three points.
Watch this space for more details when they are known but in the mean time, in David Moyes we trust.