Hammers transfer update

West Ham and Fiorentina are £2.5million apart in their valuation of 23-year Serbia international Nikola Milenkovic, according to Gianluca Di Marzio.

The journalist, writing on GianlucaDiMarzio.com, claims the Italian outfit are “not willing to give discounts”

Negotiations are not over, and there is still a chance a deal could be done, but the parties are still a fair way off an agreement the report claims.

Bizarrely Liverpool’s own club website news section asked whether they should make a move before pointing out they are presently overloaded with central defenders. They have seven on the books.

As always in these final elements of getting a deal over the line agents and intermediaries hold the key and there are often many of them involved in each and every deal.

Goalposts are often moved, demands are nearly always revised and they will often be playing you off against another club behind your back.

Despite many saying this is already a done deal, it is not as it stands this morning but both continue to iron out their differences.