Last Updated: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:49
New West Ham owner David Sullivan has admitted the club will probably sell defender Matthew Upson in the summer.
Upson, 30, is out of contract in the summer of 2011 but Sullivan has admitted the club will probably sell the centre-half at the end of the current campaign.
"If we can get a substantial sum for him then we've got to take it," said Sullivan. "It's business sense. He wants to have one last crack at the big time - Champions League football - and you can't begrudge him that.
"He's in his prime as a centre-half, but he is probably in his last four or five years and it's not awful that he has to be sold. You have to bring in younger guys on lower wages, who you hope will be as good or better. What we have to do is hang on to the young players, hang on and wait for them to come through, and we'll have a fantastic team in five years."
The likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham have all been credited with an interest in Upson in the past.