Inter Milan want West Ham to shell out about £6million for Dutch striker Luc Castaignos. Liverpool, Tottenham, Newcastle and Everton have also shown interest.
The pitch inside London's Olympic Stadium is not up to Premier League standards and will have to be ripped up after the Games at a £2million cost to public funds.
The news was good for West Ham. It was bad for the taxpayer. And, for all Barry Hearn's tub-thumping rhetoric, it was probably irrelevant to the other interested parties.
West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has warned relegation from the Barclays Premier League would be likely to cost him and David Gold up to £40million more of their own money to keep the debt-riddl...