Juve ready to sell Zaza but want a fortune

Juventus want £25 million for Simone Zaza but West Ham are reluctant to do a permanent deal for the Italy international.

The Hammers have been lined with the player by his father who is quoted in the national media tonight as saying: ‘West Ham are a solution we’d appreciate and represent something more concrete.

‘We’ll have to see what Juventus do and expect news soon. We are taking London into serious consideration as his next destination. Simone still has four years on his contract and would happily remain in Turin to give his contribution.

‘Juventus don’t want to sell Simone to a direct rival. Milan, Napoli and Roma would be the options, we’ll see what happens.’ ”

However, ClaretandHugh has learned this evening that a deal to bring the player to The London Stadium is a distant possibiity at this stage with the club only interested in “taking a look” at Zaza first via a loan deal.

We were told by our top source: “We’d love a loan to have a look at him, but that’s not on offer from the Italians who have asked for £25 million.

“We can’t see him in those sort of terms particularly as the player wants personal terms of £100k a week so we are some way away.”