By Alex Shilling, News Editor
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West Ham have joined a whole host of clubs hot on the trail of West Brom misfit Peter Odemwingie, according to Sky Sports.
The Nigeria international is thought to have no future left at the Hawthorns and it seems unlikely that he will given a second chance by boss Steve Clarke, but now has several options open to him, with the Irons, Fulham, Hull, Sunderland all joining Crystal Palace in pursuit of the 31 year old.
Odemwingie is held in contempt by Albion fans who saw his desire to move to QPR on deadline day of the January transfer window as being motivated by money, but the forward dismissed claims that his attempt to leave the club was about cash in an interview with the Birmingham Mail in May, stating that he 'took a pay cut of more than three times what I could have earned' to move to the West Midlands club in the first place. Odemwingie stated in the same interview that he is '90 per cent sure it is best for me to leave' and stated that there would be no bitterness between him at Clarke if he did move on.
The striker recently lashed out at the media, tweeting on 20 June: 'Read some articles online and laughed. Some journalists see life from towers and some from a few bricks.'
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce is understood to see the capture of a second striker as his first priority in the transfer market and has also been linked with moves for Celtic's Gary Hooper and Lille's Salomon Kalou as well as agreeing a fee with Argentine side Estudiantes for the 20 year old Colombian forward Duvan Zapata.
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