{"id":47056,"date":"2025-08-06T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47056\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:00:09","slug":"what-leicester-are-now-willing-to-do-with-mads-hermansen-to-entice-west-ham-amid-advancing-john-victor-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47056\/","title":{"rendered":"What Leicester are now willing to do with Mads Hermansen to entice West Ham amid advancing John Victor talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TBR Football can exclusively confirm that West Ham United and Leicester City are back in talks over Mads Hermansen.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers are currently in pursuit of a new goalkeeper after letting Lukasz Fabianski leave the London Stadium over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hermansen has been in <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/west-ham-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham\u2019s<\/a> sights, but the Hammers have also been in pursuit of Botafogo stopper John Victor.<\/p>\n<p>TBR Football understands that <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/when-west-ham-expect-to-sign-john-victor-as-club-targets-cut-price-transfer-fee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham have been pushing to strike a deal for Victor<\/a> for a fee of less than \u00a310million.<\/p>\n<p>However, TBR Football can now confirm that the Hermansen lead is still active, thanks to a potential compromise from <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/leicester-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leicester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2204990113-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Leicester City players including Mads Hermansen and Wilfred Ndidi during a Leicester City game\" class=\"wp-image-967715\" \/>Photo by MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLeicester willing to drop their price for West Ham target Mads Hermansen<\/p>\n<p>TBR Football chief correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/graeme-bailey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Graeme Bailey<\/a> understands that West Ham have re-engaged in talks with Leicester over Mads Hermansen.<\/p>\n<p>Hermansen was their number one choice but Leicester\u2019s \u00a325million asking price put them off.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is believed that Leicester, who need to make room in their squad, are willing to drop their price for Hermansen.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how much the Foxes would be willing to accept for Hermansen, considering West Ham have a \u00a310million alternative also lined up.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/people-at-west-ham-are-starting-to-think-27m-player-might-finally-come-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">People at West Ham are starting to think \u00a327m player might finally come good<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who Leicester prefer out of Mads Hermansen and John Victor<\/p>\n<p>Bailey understands that West Ham see Hermansen as \u201cthe pick\u201d, but at the same time they are working on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham are also looking to bring in reinforcements in midfield, so they need to be mindful of how much money they spend on a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Hammers are desperate to land the right goalkeeper, added Bailey, so there\u2019s a balancing act they need to strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraham Potter really wants to get this keeper choice right and he wants one who can use his feet,\u201d Bailey exclusively told TBR Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a club they honestly really think Hermansen is the pick, but they have a limited budget and he isn\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut those talks are ongoing again. They have been in talks with John Victor too\u2026 and that has advanced. It is going to be one of those two.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBR Football can exclusively confirm that West Ham United and Leicester City are back in talks over Mads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1725,218,16298,26368,26369,26370,101,56,54,55,25673],"class_list":["post-47056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-graeme-bailey","tag-john-victor","tag-leicester-city","tag-mads-hermansen","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-ham-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}