West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady claims the club will hold discussions with manager Sam Allardyce – but has offered no assurances the Hammers chief will still be at the club next season.

The 60-year-old’s contract at the east London club expires in the summer and, so far, talks have yet to begin about a new deal.

Sunderland are believed to be eyeing Allardyce and Brady, while confirming the club will start a dialogue with the ex-Bolton man at the end of the campaign, has suggested his future at Upton Park is far from certain.

“Sam Allardyce is a good manager,” she told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show. “He will always have our respect and whatever happens with West Ham, his future is bright.

“He’s a good manager, but he has to make sure he’s happy at West Ham. We have to sit down and calculate what we do privately, and respectfully, with him.

“We have the same plan this year as we’ve had every other time his contract has run out. We’ll sit down at the end of the season, discuss the season that’s gone past and decide how to go forward.

“Everything comes into the decision, not least of all how fans are feeling. There have been times when the supporters have been on his back and he has found that time very difficult to deal with.”