West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has hit back at co-chairman David Sullivan over claims he turned down Renato Sanches.

Bilic has said Sullivan "likes to talk" and that it is not strictly true that he was offered Sanches, now of Swansea City and West Brom's Grzegorz Krychowiak.

"David Sullivan likes to talk – it's his right to be able to," Bilic said. "I wanted the player [Carvalho] and that is not exactly what happened with those two you mention (Sanches and Krychowiak).

"I wanted Carvalho and it looked likely, and to be fair, during my time at West Ham, it's very common that when it looks like a player is going to happen, that two or three other names someone throws in and that distracts you from the main target, and that's what happened."