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Callum Wilson is set to be offered a new contract at AFC Bournemouth to ward off interest from West Ham United, per The Sun.

What’s the word?

The Hammers are on the hunt for a striker after losing Marko Arnautovic, Andy Carroll and Lucas Perez in this transfer window.

West Ham attempted to sign Maxi Gomez from Celta Vigo but Football FanCast sources understand that he is instead set to join Valencia.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini had specifically requested the signing of the Uruguay international, per FFC sources, but Director of Football Mario Husillos was unable to broker a deal.

The Sun claim that the Hammers had subsequently shown an interest in signing the Cherries forward, with a £35m offer mooted, but he is to be offered a new deal worth £100,000-per-week to keep him on the south coast.

Options running thin

Where do West Ham turn?

This is the question with less than a month remaining of the transfer window.

Wilson would have been a marquee signing – he scored 14 goals and registered 10 assists in the Premier League last season – but that too now appears to be a dead end.

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Having already missed out on Gomez, Pellegrini and Husillos may be getting desperate.

As it is, he has Javier Hernandez and Jordan Hugill as his striking options; the Irons need to ensure that they do a deal for a forward, any forward, quickly.

They cannot afford to begin the 2019/20 season with just two strikers, after all.