Aaron Cresswell and Angelo Ogbonna in contract limbo amid West Ham manager uncertainty

No decision has been made surrounding the future of David Moyes

Aaron Cresswell and Angelo Ogbonna are yet to be offered new West Ham deals as the club wait to resolve their uncertain managerial situation.

The veteran defenders are each due to be out of contract this summer but it is thought that both would be open to the offer of an extension.

Whether that arrives, however, will depend on who is in the dugout, with David Moyes’s own deal set to expire at the end of the campaign.

No final decision has yet been made over the Scot’s future but the hunt for a potential successor is already underway amid a growing expectation he will leave the club this summer. Talks have been held with Sporting’s Ruben Amorim and former Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui, while Lille boss Paulo Fonseca and Hansi Flick are also on the club’s radar.

Cresswell is West Ham’s longest serving player having joined from Ipswich almost a decade ago. He has made only 15 appearances this term, slipping behind Emerson in the left-back pecking order, but remains a valued member of the first-team squad and acquitted himself well when trusted by Moyes to start both legs of the Europa League quarter-final defeat to Bayer Leverkusen.

There have been recent suggestions that the 34-year-old has already turned down a new 12-month deal but Standard Sport understands that is not the case.

Ogbonna, meanwhile, has been fourth-choice centre-back for much of the campaign and will turn 36 this month but is another respected figure in the dressing room. West Ham may already need to sign centre-back reinforcements this summer, with Nayef Aguerd expected to be the subject of renewed interest from Saudi Arabia.

Lukasz Fabiański and Vladimir Coufal were both also due to be out of contract at the end of the season, but had one-year extensions activated earlier this season.

Ben Johnson is the other senior player whose deal expires in the coming months and the academy graduate looks likely to leave the club having rejected several contract offers.

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