West Ham United sporting director Mario Husillos spent the international break watching Leonardo Koutris – the man most famous for being dropped from a stretcher - as the club line up a move for a new left back.

Koutris played in Greece’s Uefa Nations League victory over Finland last Thursday night, a game that Husillos personally attended.

West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini has identified left-back as one of the areas he would like to strengthen, having not been convinced by either Arthur Masuaku or Aaron Cresswell.

Koutris plays his club football for Olympiakos, the club West Ham signed Masuaku from in 2016, and his appearance against Finland was his first for the senior Greece national side.

But the 23-year-old is perhaps most famous outside Greece for being dropped from a stretcher twice while injured in 2015, when he played for Ergotelis. Koutris was eventually dumped on the side of the pitch and the video went viral almost as quickly as Ergotelis issued a formal complaint.