West Ham boss David Moyes has revealed he could have signed then-River Plate forward Julian Alvarez.

The Argentine World Cup winner is at Manchester City, having transferred to the Premier League club last year.

While Alvarez was on the radar of other clubs at the time, including Manchester United, Moyes has revealed he could have signed him even earlier.

Speaking to the Diary Of A CEO podcast, Moyes stated: “I think it's the ones I've missed, the ones where you say "Nah, I don't think he's quite good enough." I've had hundreds of them.

“Just recently, because we've been talking about it, Alvarez who has just played for Argentina in the World Cup. I brought in a new scout who says 'Look, you should go for Alvarez at River Plate'.

“I watched him and I thought he was a very good technician and done so many good things as a centre-forward. But I thought [he's] maybe not quite the one we want, we had Micky Antonio who had been doing very well and I thought I don't know.

“You see sometimes the players change in six months but I have to say there are other players like that who you don't take and don't go on to be a real success.

“But that one at the moment is just one where probably because it was only a year ago where I decided 'Nah, he's not one I'm going to take'."