West Ham secure signature of talented Swansea midfielder Flynn Downes

West Ham United have tackled the summer season switch window for the third time in latest weeks, because the Hammers accomplished a transfer for Swansea Metropolis midfielder Flynn Downes.

Downes joins the Hammers underneath David Moyes on a five-year deal per studies in The Athletic, with an choice for an extra 12 months’s extension, in a transfer that prices the membership an preliminary £9 million which may ultimately rise to £14 million.

BREAKING: West Ham have signed Flynn Downes from Swansea Metropolis for £9m on a five-year deal, with the choice of an extra 12 months. #WHUFC

Downes: “It’s a surreal feeling to have joined my boyhood membership. I really feel like I’m dreaming.” https://t.co/qL5LbNKVmi

— Roshane Thomas (@RoshaneSport) July 7, 2022

A life-long West Ham supporter, the Brentford-native got here by means of the ranks at Ipswich City and made his first-team debut in 2017 earlier than heading to Wales 4 years later to grow to be a key performer final time period underneath Russel Martin.

West Ham membership chairman David Gold took to Twitter to make identified his delight with the deal for Downes, whereas Hammers headmaster David Moyes spoke concerning the membership’s want to faucet into the expertise that exists within the Championship as an inexpensive method so as to add high quality to the workforce in the same vein to the deal that noticed Jarrod Bowen take part 2020.

“We’re happy to have signed Flynn and looking out ahead to bringing him into the group. We predict he’s acquired good vitality. We predict he’s acquired a number of issues which we now have about our workforce, which might wish to preserve and wish to add to.”

“We introduced Jarrod Bowen from the same scenario at Hull, so we’re all the time looking for boys from the Championship who we predict are going to step as much as grow to be Premier League gamers. I’m hoping that Flynn does. I feel there’s a superb likelihood as he’s acquired an terrible lot of fine attributes.”

With West Ham already finishing offers for goalkeeper Alphonse Areola from Paris Saint-Germain in addition to Stade Rennais’ Moroccan center-back Nayef Aguerd, the membership have shelled out near £50 million this summer season in a bid so as to add depth in high quality to make one other push for a top-six end or greater in 2022-23.

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This text was edited by
Conor Laird.