Westham needs to sell players before any incomings,sad news for westham as some of their favorite has to go Who’s in,who’s out

West Ham United‘s plans to offload up to nine first-team players are ambitious but an important part of balancing the books following the big cheques paid out for new signings. In the past the club has been pretty average at managing player sales, with a long list of those who’ve cost us more than £10 million each  in net loss including  Scamacca, Vlasic, Benrahma, Issa Diop, Seb Haller and Felipe Anderson.

While the club aims to reshape the squad and create space for new signings, it is unlikely that all would go in one massive clearout: The Times reported yesterday that Vladimir Coufal, Kurt Zouma, Nayef Aguerd, Konstantinos Mavropanos, James Ward-Prowse, Maxwel Cornet, Tomas Soucek, Danny Ings and Michail Antonio can all potentially leave. More likely to be a combination of ‘some of the above’ depending on what happens with our recruitment in the rest of the window, and frankly, whose wages are highest and how much we can obtain back into the bank.

The potential departures of current international players like Vladimir Coufal, Nayef Aguerd , Mavropanos and Tomas Soucek are most likely if clubs can be found to meet their wage demands: Demoting these players to the bench or ‘cup games’ is unlikely to satisfy them as they look to continue their international careers.

Lopetegui has shown a ruthless or single minded streak depending  on your view of the players under scrutiny: Club Captain Kurt Zouma was unceremoniously tapped on the shoulder and asked to leave, so none of the others can feel ‘safe’ from the axe.

Tim Steidten has his work cut out now to bring some of these player sales to fruition before the end of August. The Recruitment team has worked impressively so far and I think we can have every confidence that even as we write, the deals are being lined up for several of the squad.