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Tottenham<\/b><\/a> have accelerated their interest in <\/b>West Ham<\/b><\/a>‘s Mateus Fernandes as they target a central midfielder following a failed bid for Sandro Tonali.<\/b><\/p>\n The 21-year-old Fernandes is viewed as a primary target with talks ongoing and, according to sources, progressing positively and Spurs optimistic an agreement can be reached.<\/p>\n West Ham<\/a> are understood to want around \u00a380m for the Portugal international, who has also been linked with Manchester United<\/a> and Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n Last week, Tottenham<\/a> had a bid rejected by Newcastle United<\/a> for Italy international Tonali.<\/p>\n It is understood the offer was worth about \u00a380m, with Spurs boss Roberto de Zerbi a long-time admirer of his compatriot and the club exploring the finances of a deal for the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n Tonali, though, has four years left on his contract, having signed a new deal to repay the faith Newcastle<\/a> showed in him during his 10-month ban for breaching the Football Association’s betting rules.<\/p>\n Tottenham<\/a> have made a fast start in the transfer market this summer, having already signed four players.<\/p>\n Earlier on Wednesday, they agreed a deal to sign goalkeeper Martin Dubravka on a free transfer once his contract with Burnley<\/a> expires on 1 July.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old Slovakian international is another defensive reinforcement following the signings of Marcos Senesi, Andy Robertson – also on free transfers from Bournemouth<\/a> and Liverpool<\/a> – and Netherlands defender Jan Paul van Hecke, who cost \u00a352m from Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tottenham have accelerated their interest in West Ham‘s Mateus Fernandes as they target a central midfielder following a failed bid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}