David Sullivan claims West Ham passed on Grzegorz Krychowiak before West Brom signed him

Albion have signed the highly-rated Polish midfielder on a season-long loan from Paris Saint-Germain and are paying his £108,000-a-week wages to secure his services.

Baggies boss Tony Pulis revealed he has been chasing the 27-year-old for the past two years, and was delighted to finally get his man.

Sullivan claims Bilic was offered Krychowiak as well towards the end of the transfer window, but decided not to take him or Bayern Munich’s Renato Sanches – who ended up at Swansea - on loan.

"Overall Slaven is happy with the business we have done during the summer transfer window," he said in a statement. "We received the manager's wish-list before the window opened and we have managed to get the top four players on it.

"It is no secret that we made a club record bid for Sporting Lisbon’s William Carvalho but unfortunately that offer was rejected a couple of weeks ago.

"Late last night (Thursday) Sporting Lisbon made contact to accept the original offer, but unfortunately it was just too late in the day, and we simply did not have enough time to put the player through a medical.

"We were not prepared, as a club, to buy a player for that amount of money without him having gone through adequate medical checks.

"Grzegorz Krychowiak and Renato Sanches were both offered to the manager before their switches elsewhere, but he told us that he is happy with the squad he has.

"As a board we are behind Slaven, and he believes he has the tools to turn around our form and rectify our disappointing start to the season."