West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has added to the pressure on Slaven Bilic by claiming the manager was not interested in the chance to sign Bayern Munich's Renato Sanches or Paris Saint-Germain's Grzegorz Krychowiak on deadline day.
Following a quiet final week of the transfer window in which Sullivan stayed in Marbella, the 68-year-old released a statement to supporters in which he put the club's inactivity down to the manager.
'Overall Slaven is happy with the business we have done during the summer transfer window,' said Sullivan on the club's website. 'We received the manager's wish-list before the window opened and we have managed to get the top four players on it.