Manuel Pellegrini has admitted that he was not left frustrated by West Ham’s lack of transfer activity in the January transfer window.
The Hammers only made one addition last month, Samir Nasri, who signed on a free transfer on New Year’s Eve.
While the club showed interest in a number of other players across the month, with deals for Celta Vigo forward Maxi Gomez and Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi taking centre stage on transfer deadline day, no further additions were made.
A large positive for Pellegrini though was Marko Arnautović, who elected to commit himself to the club, despite heavy interest and speculation linking him with an audacious move away from the London Stadium.
Talking ahead of the club’s game against Liverpool on Monday, Pellegrini had this to say on his club’s performance in the transfer window, as reported by BT Sport:
I am not frustrated. We didn’t have any interest in bringing a new player here unless we sold one.
We have a squad, we have some players with long injuries but we have other players.
The only interest we had in changing players was if we sold one but if not, we have the squad and it must be ready to play the last 14 games of the season.
The only player we had interest in was Gary Medel, they told us it was free and we were interested because he can play in two or three positions. But then it turned out the player was not free.
So I think that we have the squad and we will work with it until the end of the season. Then we will see in the summer what we need to do. The January window does not offer many solutions.
