West Ham draws Leicester goalkeeper Hermansen for five-year-old deal

West Ham has signed Leicester goalkeeper Mads Hermansen for a deal of five years, the Premier League club announced on Saturday.

No reimbursement were announced, but British media reported that West Ham paid around £ 20 million ($ 27 million) for the 25-year-old Denmark International.

Hermansen made 72 performances for Leicester and won the championship title in 2024. He made an impression last season when the Foxes were banned from the Premier League.

West Ham was looking for a new keeper after Lukasz Fabianski van Polen left at the end of last season. Hermansen will compete with Alphonse Areola, 32, who played 26 times in the Premier League last season.

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Casper Ankergren, who worked with Hermansen near Brondby, is the goalkeeper coach of West Ham under manager Graham Potter.

«I have heard a lot of great things about the club,» Hermansen said the Hammers website.

«I played West Ham twice last season, and playing in London Stadium was a great experience. It is a great stadium with loud, passionate fans. It is what you dream of as a football player, and I can’t wait to play for 62,500 fans as a West -Ham player.»

«The fans can expect that I am brave and take good energy to help the team in the best way. This is a great step in my career.»

Potter welcomed Hermansen in East London: «Mads has proven his quality in Leicester City with two impressive campaigns on a personal level in recent years, and the exciting thing is that we feel that his best years are still before him.»