With Angelo Ogbonna out for the rest of the season and Kurt Zouma also injured, West Ham have been a bit thin at centre-back of late.
Furthermore, with Issa Diop targeted by Newcastle United, there is a need for a new defender at London Stadium, with the Hammers looking at three players in particular.
L’Equipe have that list, with the first being Rennes’ Nayef Aguerd, whom West Ham were previously after in the summer, but their approach has been ‘turned away’, because the Ligue 1 side ‘hasn’t decided to part ways’ with the player ‘this winter’.
Thus, ‘the door won’t open’.
The second is Paris Saint-Germain’s Abdou Diallo, who is also on Milan’s radar, but despite the club’s desire to sell some players, they don’t plan on ‘bargaining away’ their player.
As things stand, West Ham ‘haven’t made an offer to recruit’ the former AS Monaco player.
Finally, the last one is Borussia Dortmund’s Dan-Axel Zagadou, whose contract with the Bundesliga side runs out at the end of the summer, and is currently ‘negotiating a renewal’.
But, ‘many clubs in England’ are ‘attentive’ to the ‘evolution’ of these talks, and L’Equipe make it clear West Ham ‘are among them’.
