Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has confirmed the club would be willing to consider an offer from West Ham for unsettled winger Shaun Wright-Phillips.

Kenyon revealed that the Hammers had already made an approach for the England international but that the figure was well below Chelsea's valuation.

West Ham are thought to be prepared to pay around £10million — a fee that would shatter the record fee of £7.25million they paid to land Dean Ashton from Norwich in January.

The Hammers will have money to spend in the January transfer market following the takeover of the club by Icelanders Eggert Magnusson and Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson but Chelsea want to recoup a fair proportion of the £21million they paid Manchester City for the winger in July 2005.

Kenyon said: "There has been interest from West Ham and they have officially approached us.

"We're not in the position of having an offer but we've certainly had interest expressed from them.

"Our position is that we're not looking to sell our players but it we get an offer we'll have to look at it on a serious basis."