West Ham are considering a £6million summer move for Aston Villa forward Jordan Ayew.

Manager Slaven Bilic wants two new strikers for next season with Diafra Sakho to be made available for sale.

Recruitment staff have drawn up a list that includes Marseille's Michy Batshuyai, Alexandre Lacazette at Lyon, Wilfried Bony of Manchester City and Liverpool's Christian Benteke.

West Ham are considering a £6million summer move for Aston Villa forward Jordan Ayew

Slaven Bilic wants two new strikers for next season with Diafra Sakho (pictured) to be made available for sale

None of those would come cheaply but Bilic has a list of support strikers too with Ayew and Racing Club striker Gustavo Bou among them.

Bilic has been impressed with how 24-year-old Ayew has often foraged for goals with little support at Villa and, though he has only scored six for Villa this season, believes he will benefit greatly by linking up with former Marseille teammate Dimitri Payet.

Ayew joined Villa from Lorient for £9.6million and they would want to recoup their outlay but West Ham would hope to prise him away for a bit less.

Bou is a 26-year-old Argentine forward who has scored 29 goals in 46 games for Racing and is available for around £5.6million.

Bilic has been impressed with how 24-year-old Ayew has often foraged for goals with little support at Villa

Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony (left) is also one of the players West Ham are interested in

Sakho, meanwhile, is ready to leave after being overlooked for a new contract when he picked up an injury earlier in the season and expressing his frustration after being dropped for the weekend derby with Arsenal.