Learn more

Hammers captain Kurt Zouma has let it slip that one of his teammates is about to be sold by West Ham United this summer. It says a lot that one of Julen Lopetegui’s first missions as West Ham’s new head coach is to rebuild the defence. Technical director Tim Steidten is reportedly prioritising signing two new centre-backs for Lopetegui. West Ham looked to have sealed their first signing of the summer window when a deal was agreed with Flamengo for Brazil international Fabricio Bruno. That £12.5m deal collapsed, though. It has since been claimed it was down to Bruno’s dissatisfaction with the p…

cuu