**West Ham Receive Stinging Criticism in Transfer Tussle**
Breaking reports suggest Slavia Prague are growing increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in West Ham’s pursuit of El Hadji Malick Diouf.
This comes just a day after Hammers sources were confidently briefing that a deal for the 20-year-old was close to completion.
That optimism has been flatly contradicted by Slavia president Jaroslav Tvrdík, who said: “We believed negotiations with West Ham would come to a quick end, and we asked the coach not to use Diouf in training. We have not yet been able to reconcile our ideas with those of the English. If it does not happen, we will enter negotiations to stay.”
These are clearly the words of a frustrated man—and it sounds uncomfortably familiar for West Ham fans. Once again, we’re seeing a deal that should be straightforward becoming needlessly complicated.
Diouf has already agreed to join West Ham, and Slavia are open to selling. With [Tomas Soucek](https://www.claretandhugh.info/tomas-soucek-bio/) and Vladimir Coufal having already made the switch from Prague to London, this should have been a tap-in of a [transfer](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham-transfer-news/).
Fabrizio Romano previously reported that West Ham had tabled a €20m offer, but even that has been disputed by Tvrdík.
Right now, a move that should have been wrapped up is in danger of falling through—and it won’t reflect well on us if it does.