West Ham will finally make a move for a midfielder after completing the signing of Mads Hermansen from Leicester City.

Before the transfer window started, it was clear the priority should have been the centre of the park.

We really struggled to get control of the game in midfield under both Julen Lopetegui and Graham Potter, when really that’s the type of football they want to play.

No matter what personnel that played in the middle of the pitch, it wasn’t functioning. Even if we didn’t play Soucek or Alvarez, who are famously limited on the ball we’d have similar issues.

Ideally we would have moved for a midfielder to fit Potter’s system at the start of the season. But for whatever reason we didn’t.

Now we have just a week before the Premier League season starts and we have the same midfield plus Freddie Potts, who to be fair to him has had an excellent pre-season and could be in line to start the first game away at Sunderland.

Now we’ve signed a goalkeeper, the priority now for the Hammers is to sign a midfielder. We want two, however, we can only afford to buy one before selling another.

As of late, there haven’t been many transfer links, apart from Jacob Ramsey. The Aston Villa midfielder is said to be our main target, but it will cost a lot to get him.

The Birmingham outfit reportedly want at least £35M for him and I can’t see us paying that. Not only that, he isn’t really an out and out midfielder which is what we need, he often plays out on the left.

The thing that is most likeable about Ramsey is his energy, which would be a very welcome addition to our midfield.

However, unless Potter trusts Potts or Alvarez to be the lone defensive midfielder, which would be unlikely, I think we should go for someone with a lot more defensive qualities than Ramsey.

For example, a player like Raphael Onyedika who we have been linked with earlier in the window would be excellent.