West Ham have named four senior players that will leave the club when their contracts expire at the end of the season.
Since taking over from Julen Lopetegui in January, Graham Potter has struggled in his bid to turn around the club’s ailing fortunes.
The Hammers are currently on course for their worst league finish since returning to the top flight more than a decade ago and have won just nine Premier League games all season.
With a busy period in the transfer market expected, the club announced on Friday that four players with over 800 combined appearances in all competitions will depart in the summer.
In a post on X, the club wrote: ‘West Ham United can confirm that Aaron Cresswell, Lukasz Fabianski, Vladimír Coufal and Danny Ings will leave the Club when their contracts expire at the end of the 2024/25 season.’
Cresswell has spent more than a decade in East London, having initially joined the Hammers from Ipswich in the summer of 2014 during Sam Allardyce’s regin at the club.
West Ham have announced that Aaron Cresswell will depart this summer after more than a decade at the club
Vladimir Coufal(left) and Lukasz Fabianski(right), both members of the 2023 Europa Conference League-winning side, will also depart
Danny Ings will also leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season
The 35-year-old was named the club’s Player of the Year in his maiden campaign and went on to earn three England caps between 2016 and 2017.
In recent years Creswell has found his opportunities limited at the London Stadium but will depart behind only the incomparable Mark Noble in the club’s Premier League appearance list.
Like Cresswell, Coufal is a veteran of the Hammers side that triumphed in the 2023 Europa Conference League final to give the club its first European silverware in more than half a century.
The Czech international has made 173 appearances for the club in all competitions since joining from Slavia Prague in 2020.
Regarded as one of the club’s greatest goalkeepers of the Premier League era, Fabianski spent his first five seasons at West Ham as the undisputed No 1.
Similar to the other players departing this summer, the former Arsenal star has found his playing time limited this season with Potter preferring Alphonse Areola between the sticks.
The most recent arrival of the group, Ings joined West Ham midway through the 2022-23 campaign from Aston Villa.
The 32-year-old netted in the quarter-finals of the club’s successful Conference League campaign but has largely failed to recapture his prolific goalscoring form at the London Stadium with just five goals in 69 appearances in all competitions.
