New £24m West Ham United signing Pablo Fornals showed the Premier League outfit what they’ve got to look forward too against Italy.
West Ham United fans got their first real glimpse of Pablo Fornals on Sunday night.
A £24 million signing from Villarreal (BBC), the little Spaniard arrives at the London Stadium with a burgeoning reputation after making his name in La Liga with Malaga and the Yellow Submarines over the last few years.
But with such a substantial price tag on his head, Fornals’s every touch, swivel and pass will be uber-analysed in the early days of his West Ham career.
And the 23-year-old didn’t give supporters too much to worry about over the weekend, even if he played just shy of half an hour in Spain’s 3-1 U21 European Championship defeat to Italy.
It is a measure of the strength available to La Roja that Fornals started the game on the bench but he might just have forced his way into the starting XI with an impressive cameo performance that had the West Ham supporters drooling on Twitter.
Clearly, Fornals is a player hugely comfortable with the ball at his feet, combining with his team-mates with ease while floating around the pitch in a manner reminiscent of a certain Dimitri Payet.
Right now, the future looks bright for Spain and West Ham.
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