West Ham United's new technical director, Gianluca Nani, has been ordered to find a solution to the injury crisis plaguing the Hammers.

West Ham boss Alan Curbishley has seen his team's season blighted by a persistent rash of injuries to key players. A packed treatment room throughout the current campaign has seriously undermined the club's bid to qualify for European football.

And the Hammers' chairman, billionaire Icelandic banker Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, has told Nani that his first priority must be to review the medical facilities at the club in an attempt to avoid any repetition of the heavy injury toll next season.

Curbishley has had to do without some of his biggest stars such as Craig Bellamy and Kieron Dyer for most of the current season, and has at times had as many as 14 first-team players on the injury list.

Nani, who takes up his post in June, will immediately be tasked with the job of ending the club's chronic injury woes.