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You have to hand it to those chaps and chapesses at Sky, they spend inordinate amounts of time 'bigging up' certain clubs and then do their very best to destroy them!

The media love a good club kicking story, and this season's fall guys are none other than Chelsea FC! Blues midfielder Danny Drinkwater has been offered to West Ham on loan, the 28 year old played a major role in Leicester City's winning of the Premier League title in 2015-16 and earned a big money move to Chelsea last summer, however he struggled to make an impact at Stamford Bridge and has now been deemed surplus to requirements.

A rather bemused and recalcitrant Mario Husillos left Spanish journalists extremely confused when asked about West Ham United's continued transfer activity and the club's apparent relentless desire to empty their pockets ahead of the August the 9th 17.00pm deadline. He replied, when asked about dealing with the deadline finishing three weeks ahead in the UK as opposed to that in Europe, "Manicomio y Tonterias" which essentially translates to "It's a madhouse and a crazy thing".

Events are moving from the sublime to the surreal at the London Stadium, someone must have been putting something in the water both at E20 and at Theydon Bois home of Hammers supremo David Sullivan. Nothing else could possibly explain what on earth is going on, David Sullivan and club co-owner David Gold have been notorious for their lack of net spend during their ownership of West Ham United and also at their former club Birmingham City, so the current whirlwind of transfer activity is indeed mystifying to say the least.

Shortly after being introduced as the new manager of West Ham United, Manuel Pellegrini announced that he was looking to bring in "four or five" new players to 'freshen' the squad. The arrival of Ryan Fredericks from Fulham on a free transfer was quickly followed by the arrivals of Yarmolenko, Diop, Wilshere, Balbuena, Fabianski and club record signing Felipe Anderson.

With the Premier League transfer window closing on the 9th of August there will be a flurry of activity regarding players arriving at 'cash rich' predominately English clubs, however the European window doesn't close until the 31st of August which means that Premier league teams are still able to sell players to non UK based teams until that window closes but they will be unable to buy.

West Ham United were delighted to confirm the signing of young Portuguese forward Xande Silva earlier today, the 21 year-old who has represented his country at every level from U15 to U20 arrives on an three year contract from Primeira Liga side Vitoria de Guimaraes for an undisclosed fee. Silva is Manuel Pellegrini's eight signing so far since arriving at the London Stadium, however Silva is seen as 'one for the future' and will join up with the U - 23's initially.

To all accounts and purposes Cheikhou Kouyaté seems to be well and truly on his way out of the London Stadium with Selhurst Park the destination, Palace will pay a fee of around £10 Million for the Senegal midfielder who has been at West Ham four years. It was believed that Hammers would have preferred to sell Kouyaté to a european club, but such is the financial might of the Premier League that other than top four sides there are few in europe that can afford £10 Million for a good, but not spectacular, player.

West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini is insisting he is not finished in the transfer market yet and Hugo Schekter his new players 'minder' is on red alert to deal with any more new additions. Schekter is the man with a plan when it comes to settling in new players, and he has been rather busy of late!

West Ham: Adrian, Zabaleta, Diop, Balbuena, Masuaku, Rice, Noble (c), Wilshere, Snodgrass, Antonio, Arnautovic. Subs: Fabianski, Ogbonna, Fredericks, Cullen, Obiang, Martinez, Hernandez