West Ham news: David Moyes makes major transfer claim amid Chelsea rumours

WEST HAM will not be signing Michy Batshuayi and Andy Carroll is not joining Chelsea.

That is according to West Ham boss David Moyes.

On Wednesday, Moyes was at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea beat Norwich on penalties to reach the FA Cup fourth round.

But his presence in the stadium led to speculation that he was taking a look at Batshuayi in the view of signing him January.

Batshuayi scored in the second half but was substituted for Alvaro Morata as more doubts were raised about his future at the club.




One of the rumoured replacements for Batshuayi had been Carroll but he sustained an ankle knock and is facing a spell on the sidelines.

And Moyes has confirmed West Ham are not interested in Batshuayi and Carroll will not be moving to the Premier League champions.

He told the Evening Standard: “I went to watch Chelsea play Norwich in the FA Cup on Wednesday night and I knew that would increase the speculation about Andy Carroll and Chelsea with Michy Batshuayi coming to us.

“Categorically, I did not go to Stamford Bridge to watch Batshuayi or any other player in particular.

“I like to get out and watch plenty of matches, I hadn’t seen Norwich this season and there were some players there who had been mentioned to me as having been doing well.

What may defuse much of the speculation is that the ankle injury Andy picked up against West Brom is sufficiently serious that he will not be able to play again this month anyway and it could even need an operation to put things right, although that has not yet been confirmed.

“The fact that some of our strikers have not been regulars in the team recently has added grist to the rumour mill so I want to make it clear that we have really good strikers.

“Some of them could play better and the form of Marko Arnautovic has changed the dynamics a little.”

Source:www.express.co.uk