The official transfer club record for the right-back role is held by Sam Byram who joined from Leeds in 2016 for £3.8m and before that, it was Guy Demel who joined the Hammers from Hamburg in 2011 for £1.75m.
The likes of Pablo Zabaleta, Alvaro Arbeloa, Rob Jones and Joey O’Brien were all free agents.
Right backs we actually paid transfer fees for includes Tim Breaker £900,000, Jonathan Spector £750,000, John Pantsil £1.5m, Gary Charles £1.2m and Tyrone Mears £1.5m. Ray Stewart signed for West Ham a record £430,000 in 1979 making him the most expensive teenage footballer at the time.
West Ham sold Glen Johnson to Chelsea for an initial £6.1m which later rose to £8.3m with add-ons which means the net spend on right-backs over the past 20 years is actually very little.
Although Thomas Repka £5.5m Julian Faubert £6.1m and Michail Antonio £9.5m have all played in the right-back position none of them were bought for that role.