The real success of the summer transfer window

The major success in the summer transfer window is the retention of West Ham’s best players after a top-six finish last season.

After his successful Euro 2020 tournament with England, Declan Rice filled many column inches and thousands of words of speculation that he was Chelsea, Manchester United or City-bound but no bids were bids received and unlikely to happen in the remaining 36 hours.

Jarrod Bowen was linked to a move to Liverpool but no enquiry or bid was received.

Tomas Soucek had been linked to a move to Germany while Issa Diop seems to be linked to a move away every other day.

None of these players are for sale and no formal enquiries or bids were received for any of them to turn down anyway.

Manual Lanzini and Andriy Yarmolenko also seem destined to stay to do their part for the squad as no bids were received for them and no replacements could be found.

Fabian Balbuena and Felipe Anderson were the only departures and that is the real success of this transfer window.