In West Ham’s latest episode of ‘the one who got away’ a world class star reveals he was so close to joining he’d even had a house arranged. Every club has that list of players they should or could have signed but West Ham’s is growing. Andriy Shevchenko, Neymar, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Edinson Cavani, Juan Roman Riquelme and an emerging N’Golo Kante are just some of the players who came close to signing for the Hammers. In more recent years West Ham have turned down the chance to sign Julian Alvarez for £14.5m and Viktor Gyokeres for £17.5m. The east Londoners also refu…