David Gold says that West Ham are likely to look to Ligue 1 and the Championship again this summer following the successes of last summer's previous recruitment campaign.
Dimitri Payet, Diafra Sakho, Darren Randolph, Michail Antonio and Sam Byram are amongst those to have joined West Ham from either Ligue 1 or the Championship with the past two seasons, whilst the Hammers have been linked with a string of players from both since the end of the 2015/16 campaign.And Gold, speaking via the club's website admitted that the club will be looking to those divisions again in order to improve Slaven Bilic's squad this summer. "We have plucked gems out of the French league and the Championship in the past year and we will be looking to do likewise again this summer," he said.
"What we have to ensure now is that we keep that momentum going when we move
to the new stadium, and that means we will be bringing in some new players
to replace the four loan players - Carl Jenkinson, Victor Moses, Emmanuel Emenike and Alex Song - who have left us.
"Our intention is to replace them with better quality. Of course we have already shown our intent by bringing in Havard Nordtveit, a talented Norwegian player who our fans will enjoy."
West Ham have agreed to sign four players so far this summer - Nordtveit, Manuel Lanzini plus youngsters Toni Martinez and Domingos Quina (from Valencia and Chelsea respectively).
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