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West Ham agree deal for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes



By David Ornstein and Jacob Tanswell

West Ham have agreed a deal for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes.

The deal is set to be worth £38million ($51.3m) with £3m worth of add-ons and a 15 per cent sell-on clause.

The 21-year-old Portugal youth international will be West Ham’s sixth signing of the summer, with the London side also in talks to sign midfielder Soungoutou Magassa from Monaco.

Fernandes joined Southampton in the summer of 2024 from Sporting CP and has made 46 appearances for the south-coast side that got relegated last season, scoring four goals and registering seven assists. He has played 36 times for Portugal’s youth teams up to under-21 level but is yet to make a senior international appearance.

Southampton were relegated from the Premier League last season with seven games still to play, only a year after their promotion.

West Ham have lost their opening three games of the 2025-26 season, two in the Premier League and one against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday. They are next in action away to Nottingham Forest on Sunday in the league.

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[Sydney_Iron]

I was a bit underwhelmed by this transfer and thought we had maybe overpaid, but fair play to the bloke, only 1 game but I'm happy if im proved wrong as he certainly hit the ground running.

Well done Mateus, more of the same if you please

[Mad Ferret]

Rossal will be gutted tonight.

[twoleftfeet]

Alone he aint gonna make as a good team but hopefully improves us. Good ball carrier, good tackler and intercepter and can create chances, even scores bow and then.  Will Potter start him?  Its not certain.  Cant see getting anything at Forest anyway. Chris Wood will have a field day.

 
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[fraser]

Excellent debut 

[El Scorchio]

Looked very good today. Very pleased. Can see a great partnership with Paqueta forming if he stays. 

[Sir Alf]

Alone he aint gonna make as a good team but hopefully improves us. Good ball carrier, good tackler and intercepter and can create chances, even scores bow and then.  Will Potter start him?  Its not certain.  Cant see getting anything at Forest anyway. Chris Wood will have a field day.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Did the lad have to change agents to get through the door?

[Eerie Decent]

No one has any idea if we've overpaid for the lad.

If he comes in, tears it up, looks our best player, and wins HOTY, then it's peanuts.

Let's wait to see him play. Too many cunts DESPERATE for our new players to fail.

[El Scorchio]

That’s it. We got ourselves into a position where we were going to have to pay a bit over the odds for someone. Not a lot else we could do really. It could have been far worse. I actually think given 50 mill quoted we didn’t get as hosed as we could have for Fernandes. 

[Iron Duke]

Maybe we’ve paid about £10m over the odds, but I’m happy with this type of signing. If we get Magassa too, that will be two 21 year olds. Suddenly we have a young energetic team.

If we manage to get a young forward, commanding centre back and sell Aguerd for £30m, I might just knock one out.

[Ron Eff]

Given Potter’s system doesn’t allow for Bowen to play in his best position, which is also Elliot’s best position, I can’t see much value in spending the £40m there instead. 

[Eerie Decent]

You've done nothing but moan, whinge & cry since your very first post, Creepy son. 

Fuck knows what you'd have been like had you ever been to a West Ham game, especially when things were really bad. Mike Newell & Ian Moore up front, you would have had to overdose on your HRT tablets.

[Keep dreaming]

Fuck off weirdo decent, keep on posting shit about our defenders instead. You seem to be good at that. Calling others drama queens is quite funny and ironic

[fraser]

I know far from everything but it just takes a few minutes of research. Though I really didn't need research to know an 8 box to box type midfielder is more what we need over an Elliot type. 

[Eerie Decent]

You would've found something to moan about if we signed Elliott, you fucking drama queen.

[Keep dreaming]

Ok Fraser, I suppose you know everything needed to know of all those players. I'm not questioning that.
I'm just saying, that the club are in more need of attacking midfielders, and Elliot would been my pick.

[fraser]

Yes, but it still would have spent 40m differently 

We've needed legs in midfield for ages everyone has been moaning about it... A box to box midfielder which I believe he is and now you would rather an attacking midfielder? 

Magassa looks to me like a player giving us those legs in midfield you point at.
We have close to none attacking midfielders at the club, so I definitely would spend that 40m elsewhere.

Mugassa is more a defensive player not so good on the ball but good at winning it by all accounts. He was a cb who know plays as a DM

[Keep dreaming]

Yes, but it still would have spent 40m differently 

We've needed legs in midfield for ages everyone has been moaning about it... A box to box midfielder which I believe he is and now you would rather an attacking midfielder? 

Magassa looks to me like a player giving us those legs in midfield you point at.
We have close to none attacking midfielders at the club, so I definitely would spend that 40m elsewhere.

[Keep dreaming]

It should sound like in writing off Sullivan and his recruitment policy.

[fraser]

Yes, but it still would have spent 40m differently 

We've needed legs in midfield for ages everyone has been moaning about it... A box to box midfielder which I believe he is and now you would rather an attacking midfielder? 

[Mad Ferret]

Yes, but it still would have spent 40m differently 

Kinda sounds like you are writing him off, dude.

[Keep dreaming]

Yes, but it still would have spent 40m differently 

[fraser]

I'm not writing him off, but I think I would have spent that 40m on Elliot instead 

But they're completely different players who play in different positions 

[Keep dreaming]

I'm not writing him off, but I think I would have spent that 40m on Elliot instead 

[Rossal]

Ok so would i rather two £20m CM's if they scouted them like they scouted Fernandes last year (according to Fraser) over buying Fernandes for triple the price after a season where he didnt seem to do anything spectacular     YES 

Would i rather Mainoo on loan than this Monaco bloke no one has ever heard of till last week, isn't a regular in the Monaco team and their fans don't seem to bothered about losing?   YES 

clear enough for you yet? 

Why are you getting so uptight you wally?

We should have signed him last season, but we didn’t. That said, he is now more cookie cut, less of a gamble and so you pay an uplift. I’m sorry I don’t buy your nonsense he must be shit because Southampton. Would you have swerved Delap on the same logic?

Let me guess, Dibling would have been ok though because he’s English and therefore hyped by the English media?

As for Mainoo/Margassa. You mean you’d rather the bloke who wasn’t a regular for the team that finished 15th in the Premier League, and when he did start this season they got beat by Grimsby Town? And you want to pay £5m for the privilege of making him better to give back to Man Utd? Yet you also want us to find European talent not yet picked up by other clubs but you’re not happy with a France U21 midfielder on exactly that basis. 

Yeah, it’s all crystal clear, mate. 

Bet you are also one of those saying we should have signed Ekitike for £38m when we had the chance AFTER he signed for Liverpool for mega money. Good old Captain Hindsight’s. 

Haha what on earth are you dribbling on about here