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The opening day worries have officially started to flood in. Once the fixture list was announced, many believed that Sunderland would be a difficult opening game and going to their ground would be tough, but a three-nil defeat is something no one could have prepared for.

Sunderland: Roefs, Hume, Ballard, Seelt, Reinildo, Talbi, Xhaka (C), Sadiki, Diarra, Adingra, Mayenda
Subs: Patterson, Rigg, Neil, Le Fee, Jones, Guru, Alderete, Roberts, Isidor
West Ham: Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Aguerd, Diouf, Rodriguez, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen (C), Fullkrug
Subs: Areola, Walker-Petera, Alvarez, Wilson, Mavropanos, Soucek, Scarles, Potts, Irving

Potters' side most recently saw an expected rejection from Southampton for Mateus Fernandes, and it's thought that West Ham will now give up on the Portuguese's signature after a quoted price of £60,000,000 for the Portuguese international was made by the Saints.