August last year was when the locks opened for the expenditure of West Ham, which brought six players more than £ 70 million.
This year it seems that they need a different flood, with their only arrivals El Hadji Malick Diouf for £ 19 million, two Bosman transfers -Kyle Walker -Peters and Daniel Cummings -and £ 33 million Jean -Clair Todibo, who was already in the club in a certain sense.
So with August on the Horizon, and the team that needs a renewal now that Mohammed Kudus has joined Tottenham, what will West Ham do?
Here our expert James Sharpe answers the most important questions about all things transfers.
Callum Wilson … Really?
I remember that West Ham lost at home in March to Newcastle. A few in the press box made jokes about Callum Wilson and what a 'West Ham' it would be to see him in Claret and Blue next season. From contract, in his thirty, injury susceptible. “He will definitely end up here in the summer,” said a clearly anticipating hack.
Because that is exactly what could happen now. West Ham is deep in conversations with free agent Wilson about a potential move to the London Stadium that Danny ings has just released, another injury -sensitive striker in his 1930s on massive wages.
That is the only area where this Wilson deal will differ. The conversations surround a fairly low basic salary with the most money linked to games and goals with the latest discussions about the duration of the contract.
Wilson has long been admired by bosses in West Ham-not the first striker to attract attention since the current owners have taken the lead and the feeling that a movement is now seen as a low risk for a striker with a proven Premier League record.
That record is at 88 Premier League goals in 239 games. The most important scorer from West Ham in the Mikhail Antonio competition, also released this summer after refusing (still) to sign the club's contract offer, with 68 goals in 268 games.
Wilson, however, has not found the net since May last year in the competition and has 19 Toppers performances without goal.
This cannot be Graham Potter signature, right?
Unless something went wrong with the algorithms on the head of the recruitment of Kyle Macauley, it is unlikely that his analysts have hit their desired songs in the machine and it coughed the name of Callum Wilson.
After all, this is the same Graham Potter, who made his wish to lower the average age of one of the oldest squadrons in the Premier League and the same Graham Potter that has long been talking about the most important players with resale value. Wilson does not fit with one of these criteria.
When I asked the Hammers how important it was in April, he staggered the list of large sale during his time at Brighton: 'A winning team with value on the field. If we can make that, I am happy. In three years, if we can do that together, that will be fantastic.
'An equivalent of Moises Caicedo, an equivalent of Alexis Mac Allister, an equivalent of Leandro Trossard, an equivalent of Robert Sanchez, an equivalent of Lewis Dunk, an equivalent of Pascal Gross in West Ham, that is £ 200 million sales. Yves Bissouma, Ben White, Marco Cucurella, Pervis Estupinian, those players.
“If you can win and sell players, you should be happy with that performance, isn't it?”
The only attacker of the first team about Potter's decision is Niclas Fullkrug-je guessing it, an injury-free frontman of in the thirty and the Hammers boss is understood to see the German who has become back for the season, as an impactsub than someone who can build his attack.
And now he could get another one. Although it is clear that Wilson is not a Potter and Macauley target white, there is also a feeling that because the basic salary will be on the smaller side, it is considered a reasonable signature with a low risk and perhaps not one to fight with your bosses at this stage.
Will this be the only striker?
You never know for sure if it is West Ham, the owner David Sullivan and available strikers. The club has signed more than 40 of them in the 15 years since the takeover in January 2010 and Potter has spent the majority of his time playing Jarrod Bowen, Kudus or Lucas Paqueta in front.
For a club that spent the summer and insists that they had to sell before they could buy, and with other areas in which they have to strengthen, it is unlikely that West Ham will grow up on a striker. They must have the money counted across the board. If anyone came in, it is probably a younger player with a reach to develop.
They may have one of those who are already at hand. Callum Marshall scored 10 goals while he was on loan for Huddersfield of League One-Kant, their player of the season was called and showed flashes of what he could bring to the Hammers front line as the chance during their pre-season against Grasshoppers Zürich.
The excellent run of the 20-year-old behind, Carry and left-foot finish doubled the lead before a nice link-up game with Paqueta is in the structure to their third.
What is the latter about the pursuit of Harvey Elliott from Liverpool?
Potter spent many of the last few games of the season and complained that his West Ham side was unable to dictate matches with attacking play. That usually does not happen to you in advance and, after you have sold Declan Rice for £ 105 million, now has a range of midfielders who cannot run.
Harvey Elliott would help to solve that. Liverpool's playmaker showed his quality for England in the less than 21 euros and has the opportunity to dominate matches for West Ham.
The club is enthusiastic and remains in conversation with Liverpool, but currently the asking price of around £ 50 million is much too high. The possibility of a loan with a later option to buy is discussed.
West Ham would like to make what you could call, a 'double dive' for Elliott and all-action midfielder Liverpool teammate Tyler Morton, but finances make that difficult again.
“We would love them, but unfortunately far away,” a Senior Hamersbron told Mail Sport.
Elliott knows that he might have to leave Liverpool to earn a place at the World Cup next year. “Look, if I had it my way, I would be here for the rest of my career, it's as simple as that, I love everything at the club,” he told the Anfield Wrap during the club's tour.
'But at the same time I have to be a bit selfish with myself and see what is best for me. “I have great ambitions. I want to go to the World Cup. As a player, I want to continue to be successful.
“I think it's still something that I have to judge. I really have to talk to everyone, really and judge the situation. '
What about a keeper? Is Alphonse Areola sufficient?
West Ham has already made additions to their defense line with the arrivals of Walker-Peters and Senegal Full Back Diouf, the Focus will now be on strengthening the goalkeeper and midfield areas.
The signing of Diouf is a good insight into the type of players Potter and Macauley would like to buy – younger talents with space to develop.
Potter and Macauley would like to add a new keeper after the departure of Lukasz Fabianski and worry about whether Alphonse Areola is good enough to be the first choice.
Leicester keeper Mads Hermansen is the highest target in West Ham and has collaborated with the new goalkeeper coach Casper Ankergren near Brondby. West Ham even mentioned the appointment declaration of Anchorgren on their website.
Hermansen underwent an operation four games before the end of the season, which led to assumptions that it was done so not to clash with the transfer window. The foxes are brace for an approach.
The Japanese Zion Suzuki, also the court by Manchester United, is also interesting.
We need some midfielders. Who can bring some legs to the engine room?
This is the most important area for West Ham. So many of their problems last season came from not having midfielders who could dominate a match, not only in attack, but also in seeing those games where the Hammers gave late goals to cost them points.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall stays on the radar of West Ham after falling in Chelsea, but showed during his promotion campaign with Leicester that he brings energy and legs into both halves.
It was talking that Dewsbury-Hall was a potential brand in Chelsea's interest in Kudus earlier in the window, but Senior Hammers sources said Mail Sport Sports that the club was very interested in the castoffs that Chelsea tried to push it.
His former teammate Wilfred Ndidi is also an option for West Ham, although Foxes sources insist that no club has received permission to approach the Nigeria International, who started his career as a defensive ball winner but adapted under Enzo Maresca in a player who could also drive late in the box.
Speaking of degraded parties, the hammers are interested in a few Saints – Middendelders – Shea Charles, who impressed under loan in Sheffield Wednesday and Matheus Fernandes.
Fernandes in particular would fit the form of what Potter and Macauley are looking. He is 21 with room to develop, but also showed that he could compete at Premier League level. Last season I was in a few Southampton matches, where the Saints fans often sang his name and showed their frustration when he was ever immersed.
West Ham could also get him for a lower fee with saints who now have to lower costs in the championship.
Someone who can leave?
The hammers remain a bit called in their finances, naturally stimulated by the sale of Kudus, but if Potter were to complete his desired overhaul, it would help if more were moved.
However, the club still has to receive a lot of concrete interest, certainly not at levels that are acceptable to West Ham, in those players such as Edson Alvarez, Emerson and Guido Rodriguez.
The club also awaits up and frustrated by how long the decision will take the decision on the spot-fixing property of Lucas Paqueta.
If he is found guilty, Paqueta, who scored from the penalty spot against grasshoppers, a lifelong ban, would open a potential movement.