Tomas Soucek made it pretty clear he wants to stay at West Ham after scoring in the 3-2 loss at Brighton. 

The Czech Republic captain thought he had won the game for the Hammers after his header gave us the least with seven minutes left on the clock. However, two avoidable late goals meant Brighton took home all three points.

After Soucek headed in Jarrod Bowen’s cross at the back post, he showed a clear message to West Ham’s owners and Graham Potter with his celebration. The 30-year-old was full of passion after giving us the lead, looking straight into the away end while doing the crossed hammers.

Not reading into it too much, but this clearly shows how much he loves the club and how much he wants to stay, even if he could linkup with David Moyes again at Everton. Soucek and his family are happy in London and he has made that obvious a lot in the past.

Selling him would be totally understandable if we were getting a good fee for him. However, the reported fee is £15m, to sell such an important player and our second highest goal scorer this season for a fee that little would be awful business.

Soucek was very disappointed after the game on Sunday. He said: “Obviously, we are all disappointed, and it’s hurting a lot because it’s not the first time [it has happened],” said Souček. “It’s happened against Southampton, Liverpool, Everton and in other games. We were winning after 88 minutes, and then in the end we lost the game, so it’s hurting a lot for us, and now we are not in a great mood.

“We were so happy with how we played in the second half [until the last five minutes]. We created a couple of chances, then we got level, and I thought I’d scored the winning goal.

“We were happy with how we played for 85 minutes. I think we were on it, showed how we wanted to play and what we wanted to show our fans, but obviously we cannot just switch off and think we have won the game already. We have to be focused for 100 minutes, even if there’s a bit of extra time. It just shouldn’t happen.”