Suggestions that Graham Potter, Kyle Macaulay, and the West Ham recruitment team are at loggerheads with the Hammers board have been denied.
All of those involved in recruitment at West Ham are working tirelessly, night and day, to bring in new faces before the transfer window closes on 1 September.
C&H have been told the manager, as always, has final veto on all signings and is not afraid to use it.
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Both Potter and Macaulay are known to be fully aware of all transfer dealings within the club and are consulted on every aspect. Potter is known to have negotiated hard in his interviews with David Sullivan and Karren Brady to secure a transfer budget and new recruitment staff.
Potter is under no illusion and knows he must operate within West Ham’s financial means—both in terms of the transfer budget and the annual wage bill.
Everyone is collaborating together to achieve what is best for the club in the set time frame. Time will tell, of course, as the transfer window enters its final month. But as a West Ham source has said since June: “Judge us at the end of the transfer window.”