An Englishman, a Brazilian and a Czech stroll into the West Ham midfield. If that sounds like the start of an unlikely joke, then David Moyes has spent much of the season searching for the punchline, without a great deal of success.
When Moyes made Lucas Paqueta the club's record signing in a £50million deal, it was with a view to the playmaker operating as a No10 ahead of Declan Rice and Tomas Soucek.