Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori pulled out of a move to West Ham barely ten minutes before the transfer deadline fell last night.

The Daily Mail says West Ham's loan pursuit of Tomori was called off just minutes before the transfer deadline.

The young centre back has found himself out-of-favour in Frank Lampard's Chelsea set-up with the signing of Thiago Silva knocking Tomori further down the pecking order.

Chelsea's failure to offload Antonio Rudiger has also seen an overload of defenders at Stamford Bridge and West Ham were hoping to capitalise by taking the ever-improving Tomori.

West Ham were interested in a loan move for the England defender to boost their defensive ranks.

Tomori looked the most likely to depart Stamford Bridge before the 11pm deadline but elected to stay at the club.