West Ham United striker Carlton Cole admits Sam Allardyce's situation is affecting his own contract talks.

Cole, also out of contract in May, is looking for a new deal too.

"I don't think Sam knows what he is doing so he is not going to be talking about my contract.

"It can be all fine and dandy one year and next year you are having a stinker. You don't know what is going on. You don't plan, you take it game by game. If you try and plan, you get disappointed.

"It is the position that we are in with Sam at the moment. We don't know whether he will be there or not."