Eggert Magnusson will stamp his mark on West Ham by personally negotiating all future transfers.
The new Upton Park owner plans a hands-on approach and has insisted on being involved in every deal.

That means there is no room for managing director Paul Aldridge, who has been axed in the Icelandic biscuit baron’s first shake-up of staff.
Aldridge was handed a £500,000 pay-off after backing businessman Kia Joorabchian’s failed takeover attempt.

When Joorabchian failed to come up with former chairman Terry Brown’s £75million asking-price, Aldridge persuaded the board to give him more time.
But that led to Joorabchian trying a cut-price bid when West Ham admitted they still owed money for Dean Ashton’s £7.5m transfer from Norwich.

Now Magnusson will work from a list of targets given him by manager Alan Pardew.