West Ham recently completed the signing of Dimitri Payet from Marseille.

The fee of £10.7m for the French international made him West Ham’s fourth most expensive signing in our history.

With cash being more readily available and spent more freely, we evaluate the other four players in West Ham’s list of our top five most expensive purchases.

Do these names suggest value for money? And does our track record of big money buys cast an ominous shadow of apprehension over our latest marquee signing?

Let’s look at our other costly investments…

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Savio Nsereko – £9m

 Savio Nsereko is infamously renowned as one of the worst transfers of the Premier League era.

We smashed our transfer record to land the Ugandan-born German under-20 international forward for a staggering £9m.

Savio managed an underwhelming ten games for West Ham before being sold to Fiorentina in the summer.

Since then, he has played for a plethora of obscure clubs such as Chernomorets Burgas, SpVgg Unterhaching and FC Atyrau. He currently plies his trade for Bulgarian outfit Beroe Stara Zagora and has scored one goal since before he joined West Ham – six years ago!

But the most bizarre part of his career came when he faked his own kidnapping in Thailand in an attempt to get his family to pay him a ransom fee.

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Matt Jarvis – £10.75m

Wolves winger Matt Jarvis moved to West Ham in 2012 as our marquee signing following promotion back to the Premier League.

His price tag was questioned at the time and Jarvis has done little to make us feel like he was worth the money since – unfortunately his highlight for the club is eating a bowl of cereal.

I do feel bad for criticising him because he tries hard but I doubt he will ever come close to justifying his price tag.

Jarvis has pace but his end product has often been his downfall. He may be offloaded in this transfer window if we can find a buyer.

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Enner Valencia – £12m

West Ham fought off competition from a host of European clubs to secure the services of striker Enner Valencia from Mexican side Pachuca for £12m.

Valencia had a quiet first season at the club but – in fairness to the Ecuadorian – he was often shifted out wide by Sam Allardyce and struggled to adapt to his new position.

The 25-year-old did still show glimpses of brilliance and formed a formidable partnership with the prolific Diafra Sakho during the first half of the season.

You suspect that there is plenty more to see from Valencia in the future.

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Andy Carroll – £15.5m

Our all-time record signing is one of the most frustrating players that we have ever had at West Ham.

Unplayable on his day, Carroll spends the majority of the season on the physio table.

After a successful loan spell at the club, we secured his permanent services for less than half of the price that Liverpool paid Newcastle for him.

But since his £15.5m switch to the south, he has only managed 27 appearances in two seasons. His aerial presence makes him a handful for any calibre of defender and his footwork is much better than he is given credit for.

If we can keep him free of injuries for a year then he could become a revelation.

If not, he could become a burden eating up our wage bill.

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