West Ham United have made contact with Red Bull Salzburg defender Oumar Solet as he looks to leave the Austrian side this summer.
That’s according to Salzburger Nachrichten, who say the player ‘no longer feels comfortable’ at the Austrian club and wants to move on.
They explain that Salzburg are expecting a major overhaul of their defensive options this summer, with several of the current stars, who make up arguably the best part of the current team, looking to depart.
Indeed, those departures are ‘imminent’, and Solet is one of those who could be on his way sooner rather than later.
The central defender ‘no longer feels comfortable’ in Salzburg and is keen to leave the club if he can, something which should be made easy given the number of suitors he has.
Roma, Wolfsburg and West Ham are said to have already been in contact with the 24-year-old, although his €10m transfer fee is considered to high at this point.
Either way, West Ham are one of the sides to have been in contact and there is a deal there to be done should they want it.
The big question is whether they do, or whether they do at this point given they’ve just spent big on Max Kilman and also have Kurt Zouma, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Nayef Aguerd as options in central defence too.
We’d suggest that perhaps one, or two, of those may need to move on before Solet could arrive, but he’s a name to keep an eye on, nonetheless.
