Zola Warns Board Not to Sell

West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola has repeated that he does not expect to lose his best players in January.

"They are very good players and I'm not surprised that big teams want them," Zola said today.

"As far as I am concerned they are not for sale and I don't want to sell my best players. I want to try to improve the team if I can and that's the target for the January transfer window.

"As far as I'm concerned no, they won't be going. The club have told me I won't be selling those players. I would be very annoyed if we did. They have to give me a very good reason if they do that.

"The club have been very good to me and I don't think they want to make this team weaker. If we can't make it with this team then we might make changes. Everyone wants to make this project work. We want to strengthen the squad."