Former West Ham fullback Glen Johnson isn't convinced by their summer market work.

Lucas Paqueta arrived in a record-breaking deal worth around £51m, while Gianluca Scamacca cost in the region of £30m, the two headlining an ambitous recruitment drive to have also seen the arrival of German international defender Thilo Kehrer.

Speaking to SafeBettingSites, Johnson said: “They went quite deep in the Europa League on a light squad. West Ham have got a lot of new faces and unfortunately, not many of them are firing

“Just when you think 'they've got some more legs in there, they've got a bigger squad and they can kick on now', actually the opposite has happened.

“It's normal for a couple of new signings to not hit the ground running, but you normally expect some of them to do the opposite."