West Ham will need to sell some players this summer if they want to boost their transfer kitty as football.london understands Manuel Pellegrini will only have £25-£30m to spend otherwise.
There are a few candidates to be sold this summer as Pellegrini overhauls his squad, with the majority of his striking department certainly up for sale or set to be released in the case of Andy Carroll. Fulham hitman Aleksandar Mitrovic and Celta Vigo striker Maxi Gomez are two that could fill those expected spaces.
Carroll is not going to be offered a new deal so his £90,000 a week wages will be off the books, while the likes of Lucas Perez and his £80,000 a week wages, Javier Hernandez and his massive £140,000 a week deal could be gone as well.
The Hammers will be spending more on transfer fees this summer but signing players on cheaper wages, abandoning their previous strategy of signing experienced, nearly over the hill, players on big wages but on smaller transfer fees.
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We saw signs of change last summer when the club brought in the likes of Issa Diop for £25m but on a much lower basic wage, likewise Fabian Balbuena and, to a lesser extent, Andriy Yarmolenko.
So, with the Chilean manager needing to sell this summer if he wants to spend more, we have taken a look at how much every first tea squad player is worth compared to their transfer fees.
All figures below were provided by the good folks at Transfermarkt.
Lukasz Fabianski
Market value: £4.5m
Transfer fee paid: £7m
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Adrian
Market value: £3.6m
Transfer fee paid: Free
Issa Diop
Market value: £27m
Transfer fee paid: £25m
Fabian Balbuena
Market value: £8m
Transfer fee paid: £4m
Angelo Ogbonna
Market value: £7.2m
Transfer fee paid: £10m
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Winston Reid
Market value: £6.3m
Transfer fee paid: £4m
Aaron Cresswell
Market value: £9m
Transfer fee paid: £2m
Arthur Masuaku
Market value: £6.3m
Transfer fee paid: £6m
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Pablo Zabaleta
Market value: £3.6m
Transfer fee paid: free
Ryan Fredericks
Market value: £3.6m
Transfer fee paid: free
Declan Rice
Market value: £31.5m
Transfer fee paid: none
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Carlos Sanchez
Market value: £1.35m
Transfer fee paid: £2m
Jack Wilshere
Market value: £13.5m
Transfer fee paid: free
Pedro Obiang
Market value: £7.2m
Transfer fee paid: £6.1m
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Mark Noble
Market value: £6.3m
Transfer fee paid: none
Manuel Lanzini
Market value: £18m
Transfer fee paid: £10.8m
Samir Nasri
Market value: £5.4m
Transfer fee paid: none
Felipe Anderson
Market value: £46m
Transfer fee paid: £40m
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Andriy Yarmolenko
Market value: £18m
Transfer fee paid: £17m
Michail Antonio
Market value: £10.8m
Transfer fee paid: £7m
Robert Snodgrass
Market value: £6.3m
Transfer fee paid: £10.6m
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Grady Diangana
Market value: £3.15m
Transfer fee paid: none
Marko Arnautovic
Market value: £31.5m
Transfer fee paid: £25m
Javier Hernandez
Market value: £10.8m
Transfer fee paid: £16m
Andy Carroll
Market value: £7.2m
Transfer fee paid: £15m
Lucas Perez
Market value: £4.5m
Transfer fee paid: £4m
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