West Ham blow as Mohamed Diame faces 12 weeks out with hamstring injury suffered during 3-2 Liverpool loss "For us he is about the start and build-up of most of the creative side of our game - he runs at them (defenders) with pace and ability that puts them on the back foot," he said. That is what we have lost and what we will be missing for a number of weeks so we are going to have to be a bit more dogged and resilient with the players we have got available, rather than have the more creative side we have had from Mo. Diame's performances for the Hammers have seen him linked with a number of clubs, especially given that he has a release clause in his contract, but Allardyce reckons he would rather deal with bids for his player in the transfer window than have him sidelined. "I would sooner have that aggravation in January where people trying to get him than lose him for the period of time, eight-12 weeks," he said. In my experience, I have had a number of hamstring injuries myself in my time, when you go down like that you know you have really got (a bad) one. We will wait until it has settled down and then scan it, we will find out exactly how big the damage is and move on from there.