By ANDREW DILLON
The £12million-rated striker is top scorer in Holland with 16 goals in just 18 league games for Vitesse Arnhem.
Big Bony, 24, also played at the African Nations Cup before Ivory Coast’s quarter-final defeat to Nigeria on Sunday.
Hammers boss Sam Allardyce is already considering where to go shopping for forwards in the summer when Carroll’s loan from Liverpool expires.
Upton Park top brass fear Carroll is determined either to prove himself at Anfield or rejoin old club Newcastle instead of signing a £17m deal to stay in East London.
Bony, who was linked with both Newcastle and Liverpool in last month’s transfer window, is one of the most promising strikers around and it would be an ambitious coup for West Ham should Carroll leave.
