A move would also see Mukiele reunited with his former Leverkusen teammate Xhaka, now captain of Sunderland, as the club continue to push their transfer outlay towards £150million. If confirmed, Mukiele’s arrival could hand Le Bris valuable defensive depth ahead of Saturday’s Premier League game against Burnley at Turf Moor.

That comes on Friday night at the London Stadium, and this was sufficiently damaging to West Ham as a team and as a club for manager Graham Potter — 90 minutes into the season — to be asked about “bouncing back”, if an immediate response is required against their London rivals. Even the club’s media asked him. It’s how bad this felt by 5pm.

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