Amid the souping up of the Premier League’s two Rolls Royce squads at the Etihad and Anfield, the swift and sizeable improvements being made at both north London clubs, the new-era-defining overhaul underway at Chelsea and the slow-moving circus at Old Trafford, it has gone a little understated just how ambitious a summer West Ham have been plotting.
When defender Nayef Aguerd became the Hammers’ first signing of the window in a £28million switch from Rennes, the message out of the club was that at least six more new arrivals were wanted by manager David Moyes.
