West Ham Poised To Sign Southampton’s Mateus Fernandes In £38m Deal

West Ham are poised to motion Mateus Fernandes from Southampton for a interest of astir £38m. Talks progressed swiftly connected Wednesday and it is understood nan 21-year-old midfielder has undergone a aesculapian successful London.

West Ham person been hunting for midfield reinforcements and are besides poised to finalise individual position pinch Monaco’s Soungoutou Magassa, who will costs €17m (£14.7m) positive €3m successful add-ons.

Graham Potter, who is nether unit aft a dreadful start to nan season, has been looking to make 2 additions successful midfield. He wants a No 6 to break up and power play, and a No 8 to adhd productivity and power successful nan last third.

Magassa, 21, is regarded arsenic nan sitting player. The France Under-21 world underwent a aesculapian connected Wednesday and is poised to motion a six-year deal. West Ham had to fend disconnected liking successful Magassa from Nottingham Forest, who wanted to indebtedness him to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Forest’s effort astatine a hijack piqued Frankfurt’s liking successful Magassa, starring nan Bundesliga broadside to research whether they could musculus successful connected nan woody connected Wednesday. Magassa remained insistent that he wanted to subordinate West Ham.

Potter will dream that landing 2 promising young midfielders alters nan temper astatine nan London Stadium. West Ham made Fernandes their apical target arsenic a No8 but had 2 offers turned down. Southampton demanded astatine slightest £50m for Fernandes, who joined for £12m past year. It seemed a woody was improbable erstwhile Southampton, who are looking for an contiguous return to nan Premier League, sold Tyler Dibling to Everton. They had indicated only 1 of Dibling and Fernandes would go.

West Ham’s erstwhile connection for Fernandes was £30m positive £2m successful add-ons. Sources indicated a woody would beryllium imaginable for a fixed interest of £35m positive a important sell-on clause. A discuss has been reached connected an first interest of £35m positive £3m successful add-ons, arsenic good arsenic a 15% sell-on clause.

Fernandes is expected to motion his statement connected Thursday. West Ham are besides looking to motion a accelerated striker.