Report: Bundesliga outfit ready to bid for Coufal

Bundesliga outfit Bayer Leverkusen are this afternoon being reported as wanting to broker a deal for Vladimir Coufal.

The Hammers right back has been relegated to second choice behind Thilo Kehrer and on occasions Ben Johnson which presumably – should the report be accurate – have Leverkusen believing they can tempt the Hammers into a deal.

With the position well covered David Moyes may feel that he could use the cash to boost his January dealings with a new central defender being required should Craig Dawson – as seems likely – move on

The news that Coufal is a target for the Bundesliga outfit comes from Sky Deutschland and it claims that Leverkusen officials will travel to London at the end of this week to negotiate a deal for the 30-year-old defender, who has fallen out of place under Moyes.

The Czech Republic international was bought for a modest £4 million by West Ham in October 2020 and remains under contract with the Londoners until 2023 but with a two-year option attacjjed it will take double that and more to see him move on.