West Ham have ‘made first offer’ for Ligue 1 centre-back – ‘Quite far’ from asking price for now

Having seemingly failed in their attempts to sign Daniele Rugani from Juventus, West Ham have turned their attention to Duje Caleta-Car.

The Marseille centre-back, who enjoyed a good season last year, has become a target for David Moyes to bolster they defence.

At 24 years of age, he represents a better investment than, let’s say, Nikola Maksimović, but there remains the problem of convincing the Ligue 1 side of selling one of their stars.

In fact, L’Equipe are reporting West Ham have gone as far as ‘making a first offer’ for Caleta-Car, but it’s ‘quite far from the price set by Marseille’.

The Hammers are ‘highly interested’ in the Croatian, which won’t please André Villas-Boas, who suggested on Friday in a chat with the press that his club’s transfer window was over.

It all depends on how badly West Ham want the defender, but if they come back with a fee that is hard for the French side to turn down, it could end up being an interesting weekend in the south of France.