The Premier League team that turned down star midfield pair

West Ham United are the team in question, with 'Hammers' joint-chairman David Sullivan insisting that Slaven Bilic had the chance to sign both players but chose not to.

Two of the shock moves of the summer saw Sanches, considered one of the most talented young midfielders in world football just last summer and Krychowiak, who cost French giants PSG a reported £30m last summer, join Swansea City and West Bromwich Albion respectively, though Sullivan claims both could have ended up in London.

"Grzegorz Krychowiak and Renato Sanches were both offered to the manager before their switches elsewhere, but he told us that he is happy with the squad he has," Sullivan said.

"As a Board we are behind Slaven, and he believes he has the tools to turn around our form and rectify our disappointing start to the season."

Sullivan also insisted that Bilic is happy with West Ham's business, syaing that Pablo Zabaleta, Marko Arnautovic, Javier Hernandez and Joe HArt were the Croatian's top target this summer.

"Overall Slaven is happy with the business we have done during the summer transfer window," explained Sullivan. "We received the manager's wish-list before the window opened and we have managed to get the top four players on it."

The businessman also revealed that West Ham had a bid accepted for William Carvalho on deadline day but that it was simply too late to get the deal done at that point.

"It is no secret that we made a club record bid for Sporting Lisbon's William Carvalho but unfortunately that offer was rejected a couple of weeks ago," he pointed out.

"Late last night Sporting Lisbon made contact to accept the original offer, but unfortunately it was just too late in the day, and we simply did not have enough time to put the player through a medical.

"We were not prepared, as a club, to buy a player for that amount of money without him having gone through adequate medical checks."