There has been a flurry of fresh transfer speculation - yet no actual activity as of yet - regarding West Ham in the past 24 hours.
Earlier this afternoon lancashiretelegraph.co.uk claimed that the Irons had increased their offer for Blackburn's Martin Olsson, having seen an initial bid of around £2million rejected.United's latest offer for the 24-year-old Swedish international is reported to be in the region of £4million, still some way short of Rovers' (inflated) £7million valuation of the player.
Yet such an offer would almost certainly be close to the Championship club's true evaluation of Olsson - even though the Telegraph also suggest that owners Venky's are likely to reject West Ham's latest bid.
Over to France now, and in the wake of Sam Allardyce's recent comments regarding the need for additional defenders, the latest to be linked with a move to east London is Bordeaux's Lamine Sane.
Sane, 25, a French-born Senegalese international team mate of West Ham's Mo Diame was reported by maxifoot.fr to have travelled to England earlier this week to meet club officials.
However that possibility was soon dented by Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud who is reported to have stated he will resist any calls to sell the player, who is contracted to Les Girondins until 2015.
Staying on the European mainland and tuttosport.com claim that West Ham have failed in an attempt to land veteran Juventus striker Vincenzo Iaquinta.
The former Italian international, now 33, is out of contract at La Vecchia Signora this summer but insists he wants to see out his contract before deciding on his future.
Sent out on loan to Serie B side Cesena for the latter half of last season, Iaquinta returned to Juve last summer but is yet to make a first team appearance in 2021/13.
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