Thomas Repka joined West Ham in Glenn Roeder’s tenure as manager, for a then club record fee of £5.5 million in September 2001. Winston Reid joined from FC Midtjylland for £4m in 2010 other centre back signing have included Rigobert Song £2.5m, Radoslav Kováč £3.3m, James Collins and Danny Gabbidon £3.5m Manuel da Costa £2.7m and Doneil Henry £1m.
Academy youth products are included James Tomkins, Reece Oxford, Reece Burke, Declan Rice and Josh Pask.
Loans have included Danny Collins, Roger Johnson, Emanuel Pogatelz and Tal Ben Haim.
Havard Nordveit was a free transfer later sold for a reported £7m to Hoffenheim. James Tomkins was sold for £10m to Crystal Palace in 2016.