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Report: West Ham tables club-record £27.1M bid for Carvalho

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After years of being heavily linked with a move to the Premier League, it appears as if Portuguese international William Carvalho is finally on the verge of a move to England's top flight.

West Ham is set to lure the Sporting CP midfielder with a club-record £27.1-million offer, with the Telegraph's Jason Burt reporting Thursday that Irons' representatives are currently in Portugal to negotiate a deal with the Lisbon giant.

Sporting is understood to be holding out for a fee in the neighbourhood of £36 million, an amount that would smash the £24 million West Ham paid Stoke City for winger Marko Arnautovic earlier in the summer.

A deep-lying central midfielder who is happy to carry the ball into attacking positions or play a traditional defensive role, Carvalho, 25, would provide Slaven Bilic's lot a consistent presence in the middle of the park after the club platooned the likes of Mark Noble, Pedro Obiang, Cheikhou Kouyate, and Edimilson Fernandes last season.

Represented by Pere Guardiola - Pep's brother - Carvalho is reportedly looking for a move to the Premier League to further his career, and is expected to immediately warrant a spot in Bilic's starting XI.

The 37-time capped Portuguese Euro 2016 winner would become West Ham's latest significant signing, joining Javier Hernandez, Pablo Zabaleta, and Joe Hart at the London Stadium as the Irons look to bounce back from a dire 11th-placed finish last season.

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