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title: "Stuart Pearce ‘pleased’ with transfer business at West Ham"
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published: "2021-09-02T18:00:00Z"
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# Stuart Pearce ‘pleased’ with transfer business at West Ham

[West Ham](https://readwestham.com/2021/09/02/alan-hutton-backs-west-ham-to-challenge-at-the-top-this-season/) first-team coach Stuart Pearce has been discussing the summer business at the London Stadium.

After a quiet start to the window, the Hammers were able to add four senior players to [David Moyes](https://readwestham.com/2021/09/01/david-james-says-west-ham-are-building-for-the-future-under-david-moyes/)‘ squad – two of which were signed on deadline day.

Ultimately, the Irons were able to [complete the signings](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/west-ham-united/transfers/verein/379) of Alex Kral, Nikola Vlasic, Kurt Zouma and Alphonse Areola

Speaking to [talkSPORT (Thursday, September 2 09:15am)](https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1630558800/1630569600/), where Pearce moonlights as a pundit, the 59-year-old admitted the club had worked tirelessly to get their targets.

> To be fair, it’s not been an easy window. Dave’s \[Moyes\] worked really, really hard at trying to get the right players in and a little bit of it is that we’re victims of our own semi-success. The standard of players has to be good enough that we see them for our first team. We don’t want to sign squad players so it’s taken a while to get a few over the line. We’re pleased with the players we’ve brought in, four players including Areola. \[They are\] all of the right age who have got improvement in front of us so we just hope they’re going to give the squad a lift.

Following a successful 2021/22 campaign which saw the Irons finish sixth and [qualify](https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/may/23-may/west-ham-united-qualify-uefa-europa-league-final-day-win-over) for the Europa League, there was a need for additions to cope with the extra demand.

### READ WEST HAM VERDICT

There was certainly [desperation for new faces](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-transfer-news-no-striker-moyes-b950574.html) at certain points during the window, one that clearly wasn’t shared from those in positions of power at the club.

Pearce and co were [right to wait](https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/transfer-news/david-moyes-west-ham-transfers-21450979) for the ideal players, albeit easy to say that in hindsight.

Now the [squad](https://www.whufc.com/teams/first-team/squad) and staff can focus on the matters at hand and get West Ham challenging in the upper echelons once again.