WEST HAM are planning a huge winter clear-out of their squad – with FIVE first-team flops set to be axed.
Winger Sofiane Feghouli is the latest star to join Slaven Bilic‘s list to be cut along with Alvaro Arbeloa, Simone Zaza, Jonathan Calleri and Gokhan Tore.
Hammers chiefs believe they had a “disastrous” summer transfer window, with barely any of their signings working out as they’d hoped.
Bilic will end Italian striker Zaza, Turkish winger Tore and Argentinian Calleri’s loan deals early and look to pay-off Arbeloa and Feghouli.
A West Ham insider said: “It would be wrong to name names but we are identifying areas that need sorting out.
“There’s now a widespread acceptance inside the club that this was a disastrous summer transfer window.
“Much needs to be done in January in getting players moved out. There were mistakes made and they need to be corrected.”
Zaza and his representatives have been in talks with West Ham for weeks trying to thrash out a deal to get rid of his appearance-based permanent move clause.
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But the 25-year-old is set to go back to Juventus before being shipped-out again, with Valencia, Inter and AC Milan all interested.
Calleri is also set to return to Uruguayan side Deportivo Maldonado with Tore is thought to be on his way back to Besiktas.
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