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Watford: Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, Dawson, Holebas, Hughes, Capoue, Doucoure, Cleverley, Deulofeu, Gray. Subs: Gomes, Janmaat, Kabasele, Chalobah, Quina, Sarr, Welbeck.
West Ham: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Masuaki, Rice, Noble, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Anderson, Haller. Subs: Jimenez, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Sanchez, Ajeti, Fornals, Antonio.

For too long West Ham United has been seen as a last hurrah destination for players who might have been good once but have reached the end of the line, a sort of retirement half way home. Now, possibly as an unforeseen positive byproduct of the club's current FFP restrictions, it appears that Manuel Pellegrini is beginning to dip in to the vast amount of young talent at his disposal.

Eyebrows were raised when Eintrecht Frankfurt sold Sebastian Haller to West Ham United for a fee of £45 Million, not just because he is a top striker, but because Eintrecht had already sold Luka Jovic to Real Madrid for £62 Million only a couple of weeks before. Jovic and Haller had 'ripped up' the Bundesliga between them in a stunning season which saw them share 57 goals along with Ante Rebic's contribution.