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.

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

After the good old interest in John, it seems this saga has now officially come to a close with West Ham finalising a deal for Hermansen from Leicester yesterday evening after a breakthrough was agreed for £18,000,000.

It now finally seems that on August 5th, our Goalkeeper hunt has come to a close as the club has nearly finalised a deal for John Victor, the Brazilian Goalkeeper from Botafogo.

The deal for John Victor has now become apparent after a fee in the region of €10,000,000 (£8.6m) has been agreed, and his cheaper price tag in comparison to our other targets has been deemed 'better value' in comparison to the £25,000,000 asking for Mads Hermansen and the £30,000,000 asking for Zion Suzuki from Parma.

Our final Summer Series game kicked off, and Graham Potter decided to put out a lineup which seemed as if it would be similar to the starting squad we'd have in the Premier League.

The first 20 minutes of the fixture saw the Hammers come under severe pressure. Bournemouth would clash with the post whilst also having two more clear-cut chances elsewhere, and it could've very easily been three down for Potters men, but the scoreline remained 0-0.

Bournemouth: Neto, Truffert, Senesi, Scott, Brooks, Evanilson, Adams, Smith (C), Tavenier, Traore, Zabarnyi
West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Aguerd, Diouf, Ward-Prowse, Potts, Paqueta, Bowen (C), Fullkrug Subs: Fodderingham, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Alvarez, Cornet, Rodriguez, Soucek, Scarles, Irving, Casey, Marshall, Golambeckis, Orford, Fearson

For the past month, West Ham United have tried every trick in the book in an attempt to sign a goalkeeper for the upcoming season. After a few names had been ruled out, it seemed to have settled down to the coaching staff’s choice of Mads Hermansen and Potter and Macaulay’s choice of Zion Suzuki…

That was all we thought! West Ham yesterday sent an offer worth up to €8m to Botafogo for Brazilian goalkeeper John Victor.