West Ham United boss Gianfranco Zola is desperate to make a new striker signing.

CEO Scott Duxbury and technical director Gianluca Nani chose not to travel to Beijing, as they instead concentrated their efforts on securing the manager's transfer targets. Having travelled across Europe since last weekend, they remain in close contact with Zola and his coaching staff.

Zola told whufc.com: "We talked about the forward positions already last season. We need to improve that part. We are working on that. Obviously when you are at the beginning of the pre-season and you lack a little bit of condition you notice it the most in attack."