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Sam Inkersole

The shirt numbers available to Andre Gomes, Guillermo Maripan and Roberto at West Ham this summer

West Ham have been given a couple of fancy new kits for the upcoming season and will hopefully have a few more new players to wear them.

The club have already made their first signing of the window as veteran stopper Roberto has joined from Espanyol on a free transfer to act as understudy to Lukasz Fabianski in between the sticks.

We're expecting a couple more players to arrive at some stage this summer to follow Roberto through the doors in east London and the club has been heavily linked with a move for Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes who spent last season on loan at Everton.

European football is the target next season, top ten was the minimum this campaign, and those European ambitions is something that Pellegrini himself wants to achieve as well as being handed the target by the board.

They aren't going to give him an open chequebook to do it though as the top brass are expected to make just £30m in transfer funds available but the boss can add to that by selling some of his first team stars.

The domestic transfer window is already open, the international one isn't just yet, but a whole host of players have already been tipped to make the move to the Hammers and Pellegrini likes to get his business done early.

But what squad numbers could be available to any potential new arrivals this summer? Obviously so we all know what names and numbers we can get on the back of the brand new replica shirts we're going to purchase before the start of the season....

Free numbers

9 - Andy Carroll's number for the last six years, he will be released on July 1 after his injury-plagued stay in the capital so the Hammers could well have a new number nine come the start of the 219/20 campaign.

13 - Was occupied by former number two stopper Adrian but, like Carroll, he will be released in July.  13 is unlucky for some though...

18 - Samir Nasri will depart the club after an unsuccessful six-month stay in east London.  He followed such luminaries as Emmanuel Pogatetz and Julien Faubert to wear the number 18.

25 - this number has been vacant for a year as the last person to wear it was former goalkeeper Joe Hart when he was on loan at the Hammers for the 17/18 campaign.

28 - here's a throwback for you. The last West Ham player to don the number 28 was striker Jonathan Calleri, who flopped in east London in 2016/17.  Roger "The Relegator" Johnson also wore the 28 and it was Manuel Lanzini first squad number too.

Jonathan Calleri's time at West Ham shouldn't be extended (John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

29 - It was Toni Martinez's number but he has been released by the club so the number 29 is available for anyone who wants it this summer.

36 - the last player to wear the number 36 in the first team was Domingos Quina and he only used it once.  Other players to wear 36 include Wayne Bridge and Blair Turgott.

Potentially available if players leave

12 - Jordan Hugill currently owns the number 12 shirt but he's highly unlikely to be at the club come the start of next season . Also worn by play-off final hero Ricardo Vaz Te.

27 - Should the Hammers decide to sell Lucas Perez then his number 27 shirt could be become available after just a year of use. Marko Arnautovic had this number for all of a couple of days before Sofiane Feghouli left the club and the Austrian took his number 7 shirt.

Lucas Perez celebrates his second goal against Cardiff (Dan Istitene/Getty Images)

22 - this  number is currently owned by Sam Byram and previously was worn by Angelo Ogbonna. Byram is third in the pecking order at right back in east London.

17 - Javier Hernandez's number. The Mexican could leave the club this summer if the right offer arrives. Gokhan Tore wore it before Chicharito as did, erm, Benni McCarthy,

14 - Pedro Obiang wants to leave West Ham and if they grant his wish then his number 14 shirt will be available for a new arrival.  The former number of Radsolav Kovac and Ravel Morrison too.

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