West Ham Slaven Bilic turned down Renato Sanches and Grzegorz Krychowiak, while a U-turn from Sporting CP on William Carvalho came too late for a club-record deal to be done, joint-chairman David Sullivan has revealed.
Bilic's men have made a dreadful start to the new Premier League season, losing their first three games to sit bottom of the table.
And Sullivan has now claimed that both Sanches and Krychowiak were offered to the Croatian, only for him to reject both potential signings - Sanches joined Swansea City on loan from Bayern Munich, while Krychowiak moved from PSG to West Brom.