Find out more about West Ham United’s first signing of the January transfer window – Jose Fonte
- Has appeared in the top three divisions in both Portugal and England
- Appeared alongside Michail Antonio in the 2010 Football League Trophy final, in which Southampton beat Carlisle United at Wembley
- Named in the 2010/11 League One Team of the Season alongside Southampton teammates Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and current New York Red Bulls striker Bradley Wright-Phillips
- Younger brother Rui is a winger who spent three seasons with Arsenal as a teenager and currently plies his trade with Portuguese club Braga
- Made his senior Portugal debut on 18 November 2014 as a substitute in a 1-0 friendly win over Argentina at Old Trafford – nearly nine years after making his final appearance for Portugal U21s
- Played 154 Premier League matches for Southampton, winning 59, losing 56, keeping 51 clean sheets, scoring seven goals and assisting two
- Made 224 clearances last season – the eighth-highest of any Premier League player
- Started all four knockout stage matches for Portugal at UEFA Euro 2016, conceding just one goal in 450 minutes of football as Fernando Santos’s side beat Croatia, Poland, Wales and France.
- Was awarded the Portuguese Order of Merit after helping his country to win the first major tournament in their history – UEFA Euro 2016
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is the only player to have won both the Football League Trophy and UEFA European Championship!