West Ham make £15 million summer transfer window bid for English attacker

Julen Lopetegui clearly needs to strengthen his ranks at West Ham before the start of the new campaign – he admitted as much after our pre-season defeat to Wolves.

The Hammers head coach has made three new signings this summer, but he needs four more as a bare minimum in my opinion.

Lopetegui must sign a new striker, a left winger, a central midfielder and another centre-back in my opinion, if West Ham are to be competitive on all fronts next season.

The addition of a centre-forward may well be his priority, but I think a new left winger is needed just as urgently.

And it seems as though Lopetegui is thinking along similar lines…

Lopetegui is quite clearly on the hunt for attacking reinforcements this summer.

And now the Hammers have made a formal move to sign someone from our Premier League rivals.

According to the Sunday Mirror (print edition July 28th, page 68), West Ham have now made a firm £15 million bid for Arsenal winger Reiss Nelson.

It was recently claimed that Nelson is keen to move to the London Stadium this summer.

Lopetegui is clearly targeting a right-footed attacker who’s capable of playing out wide on the left, in order to add more balance to his team.