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With the Premier League season starting this week, West Han have really tried to hound in on signing a midfielder or at minimum having an agreement in principle.

The Hammers have finally taken action with a bid officially going in for Mateus Fernandes from Southampton. The bid is around the £30m mark as well as £5m in add ons. Whether this will be enough for Southampton to accept is questionable, but it all comes down to the payment schedule, which, as Sully’s track record will indicate, is bound to be a problem.

Our final preseason fixture kicked off at the London Stadium which pre-game saw us announce the signing of Mads Hermansen with the Dane putting pen to paper this morning before the fixture.

Our lineup started as the same we put out against Bournemouth which’ll most likely indicate we will start the season with the same lineup with the exception of perhaps Hermansen taking the number one spot.

West Ham: Areola, Diouf, Wan-Bissaka, Ward-Prowse, Todibo, Aguerd, Kilman, Potts, Bowen (C), Fullkrug, Paqueta
Subs: Fodderingham, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Alvarez, Soucek, Rodriguez, Scarles, Irving, Orford, Awes.
Lille: Bodart, Mandi, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Perraud, Broholm, Mukaku, Andre (C), Felix, Haraldsson, Giroud
Subs: Baret, Bentaleb, Bouaddi, Burlet, Cossier, Diakite, Diaoune, Fernandez-Pardo, Raghouber, Sahraoui, Toure, Sajous