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With officials from West Ham apparently en route to Italy to discuss the possible recruitment of Lazio's Felipe Anderson and Genoa's Armando Izzo, any move to sign Javier Pastore from PSG would seem to have been put on the back burner.

Now that Mario Husillos is at the helm of West Ham United player recruitment fans could be forgiven for believing that the Hammers' hierarchy, particularly David Sullivan had taken a step back from the active end of things, however given the recent and impending transfer activity the question has to be asked "Has Kia Joorabchian become David Sullivan in absentum?".

The 'Pilgrim' bandwagon has finally got it's wheels firmly on track as new West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini along with new head of recruitment Mario Husillos begin to shape the squad of players available according to their own blue print, first up on their rebuilding programme was to 'deal' with the team's chronic defence.