Tottenham Hotspurs have agreed a deal worth £85m to sign Portugal midfielder Mateus Fernandes from West Ham, Yankee Scores reports.
The north London club saw off interest from Manchester United, who were not prepared to meet the fee Spurs had agreed, a guaranteed £85m with no add-ons.
Tottenham Hotspur have won the race for West Ham United for midfielder Mateus Fernandes.
Spurs have made the highest offer to West Ham — believed to be worth a £85million (€98m, $112m) guaranteed fee according to sources — and the 21-year-old has decided to join them.
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The 21-year-old had become one of Tottenham’s main targets after their £80m offer to sign Sandro Tonali was rejected by Newcastle.
Tottenham have been quick off the mark in the transfer market this summer already securing the signatures of four players.
They agreed a deal last week to sign goalkeeper Martin Dubravka on a free transfer when his Burnley contract expires on 1 July.
The 37-year-old Slovakia keeper was another defensive reinforcement after the signings of Marcos Senesi, Andy Robertson – also on free transfers from Bournemouth and Liverpool – and Netherlands defender Jan Paul van Hecke, who cost £52m from Brighton.
Then attention turned to central midfield but a move for Tonali was difficult, per BBC Sport.
The Italian has four years left on his contract after putting pen to paper on an extension to his deal to repay the faith Newcastle showed in him during his 10-month ban for breaching the Football Association’s betting rules.
Fernandes has been a wanted man this summer despite suffering successive Premier League relegations, with Manchester United and Paris St-Germain understood to be keen
