‘I will trim the fat’ David Moyes says he has a plan in place for transfers to try and build on West Ham success

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David Moyes has pledged to trim the fat at West Ham United this summer as he puts his transfer plan into action.

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West Ham go into today’s season finale against Southampton knowing a point will secure their best ever Premier League points total and Europa League football.

Moyes has managed a minor miracle with West Ham. Particularly given his squad is paper thin in some key areas.

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The east Londoners must strengthen in the summer. And that need will be even more acute with the addition of European football to the schedule.

Last week the Scot admitted he would need a deeper squad to compete if West Ham made Europe.

Moyes has several players who clearly have no future under him as he builds a new-look West Ham around young, hungry robust players.

The likes of Felipe Anderson, Andriy Yarmolenko and Manuel Lanzini have been linked with departures.

Moyes says he will ‘trim the fat’ as part of West Ham transfer plan this summer

And speaking ahead of the game against the Saints, Moyes told The Evening Standard he will look to ‘trim the fat’ to make space for new arrivals.

“Continually building the team,” Moyes told The Evening Standard when asked about his plans to maintain West Ham’s success.

“I’m going to try and get more competition. I want more competition for places. I want them not to think that this is going to be easy…

“I want hungry players and people who are going to move on, keep us going. I don’t think we’ll have lots of signings, we’ll have a few.

“You can’t just keep adding to your squad, you have to create spaces to bring players so you have to alter your squad a bit.

“We’re no different, we’ll need to try and make sure we trim the fat a little bit and get in what we think is right.”

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How much Moyes has to spend remains to be seen.

The Hammers boss banked £20m from the sale of Sebastien Haller in January and elected to ring fence it for the summer.

But quality strikers are not cheap and there is a case to say he needs not one but two.

West Ham also desperately need central midfield cover and possibly a left-back and goalkeeper too.

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