West Ham transfer news: Mohammed Kudus could leave in summer

West Ham could decide to sell highly-rated forward Mohammed Kudus to fund additions to manager Graham Potter’s squad this summer.

The 24-year-old has been one of the Hammers most dangerous players since his £38m arrival from Ajax in 2023.

However, he has only scored three goals this term, and none since 21 December, in what has been a difficult campaign for the east London outfit.

Potter replaced Julen Lopetegui in mid-season while technical director Tim Steidten also left after West Ham started the new campaign badly.

After a huge outlay in excess of £250m over the past two summers, made possible by Declan Rice’s £105m move to Arsenal in 2023, West Ham’s hierarchy feel they need to balance any additions to Potter’s squad with sales.

In an ideal world, they would prefer not to sell Kudus but they are aware of growing interest in the forward from Europe and elsewhere. The feeling around London Stadium is that his price will likely rise to a level that would make it counter-productive not to consider a sale.

The situation around Kudus is not made easier by the continuing uncertainty over West Ham’s other main creative force, Brazil international Lucas Paqueta, whose FA case into betting breaches is still to be concluded.