West Ham are getting close to completing what would be one of the summer transfer window's more notable signings.

According to ESPN's David Amoyal, posting on Twitter this afternoon, the Hammers are close to landing central defender Aymen Abdennour - a player who has been linked with some of Europe's biggest clubs already this summer.KUMB revealed yesterday that West Ham had enquired after the 25-year-old Tunisian , who currently plays for Monaco.However United's chances of landing one of the continent's most-highly rated young defenders was thought to be slim, at best.With the likes of the Premier League's Liverpool, Serie A's Juventus and Milan plus La Liga's Barcelona already tracking Abdennour, any West Ham bid looked doomed from the offset.However Amoyal's latest snippet suggests the Hammers may well have made a breakthrough. More to follow on this as it happens...