Report: Irons told to dig much deeper for Cairney

West Ham are this morning reported to have been told they will have to stump up £30 million for Fulham’s Tom Cairney after making an initial bid of £15 million

According to veteran journalist Scottish Alan Nixon in The Sun the south west London club are determined to see off our attempts to grab to grab the midfielder.

Nixon points out that the Championship club have previous in resisting  offers from Premier League outfits citing their resistance to Spurs when they showed big interest in  in Ryan Sessegnon earlier in a previous window.

Cairney signed a contract extension just last summer until 2021 which also gives them a strong hand.

However, with so many injuries in other up front it may be that Moyes’ priorities in the last few days of the market will have changed anyway.

And with Fulham  now in the play off zone on 48 points it seems unlikely they will consider bids for any of their squad and that Moyes will have to wait until the summer should he remain in charge at West Ham.