West Ham United boss Gianfranco Zola insists the club's financial problems are no need to raise panic.

True, he admits to a few sleepless nights and he insists he will not be changing his philosophy of attacking, fluent football at all cost. But if he is frantically paddling beneath the water line then it does not show as he wears an almost permanent grin.

He says: "There are clubs in the league which have much bigger debts than us. As far as I know the owners of the club believe in what we are doing.

"We want to keep the best players and I know exactly what I have to do and I'm doing my best."