West Ham have agreed a £17.5m fee for Paris Saint-Germain's Javier Pastore, according to the Express, but face a stumbling block before being able to get the deal over the line.
The Argentinian playmaker would be required to take a significant pay cut should he choose to join the London club, the Guardian claim.
Pastore, who joined PSG from Palermo for £37m in 2011, reportedly earns £160,000-a-week in Paris, and even with the Premier League's television money new Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini isn't in a position to offer the creative player that kind of wage.