West Ham manager Sam Allardyce admits for the first time that he expects star defender Winston Reid to leave Upton Park at the end of the season.

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce is resigned to losing star defender Winston Reid, admitting "there is no future" for the All Whites skipper at the club.

Interest in Reid's on-going contract saga has ramped up in Britain with the January transfer window open and rival clubs able to make an early move on the 26-year-old whose West Ham deal finishes at the end of this season.

West Ham have made a lucrative offer but Reid's handlers haven't bitten on it, leaving Allardyce to believe the Kiwi is heading elsewhere.

Ross Giblin/Fairfax NZ HOT PROPERTY: All Whites skipper Winston Reid has been linked with a number of English Premier League heavyweight clubs.

"There is no future for Winston Reid at West Ham United at the moment because his contract finishes on 30 June," Allardyce said as he prepared his team for a midweek FA Cup third round fixture away to Everton.

"He hasn't said he is going to sign, and he hasn't said he isn't, but you would err on the side that he isn't by the feel and the look of it at this moment in time, by the knowhow in the football world I have been talking to – other managers and so forth – about the situation.

"So I would say it is highly unlikely that Winston is going to sign for us based on what people are saying to me."

Getty Images ROCK SOLID: West Ham defender Winston Reid could part ways with the London football club within weeks.

There has been massive speculation of a move to a glamour English Premier League side with Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool all mentioned as having interest in Reid.

Allardyce maintained that there had been no contact from any clubs about Reid in the first week of this month.

"We have had no approaches," he said.

Allardyce has just signed young Canadian central defender Doneil Henry on a three-year deal in the first sign he is making plans for life without Reid.

Reid moved to West Ham from Denmark's FC Midtjylland in August 2010 and has made more than 100 appearances for the Hammers, scoring seven times, and being the king-pin of their defensive system.

West Ham have had a dip in form over the festive season snaring just one point from a possible nine to slip from fourth to seventh on the EPL table.

They play Swansea this weekend.

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