I’ve reached the end of my tether with Andy Carroll. In 2013 we made him our record signing investing £15.5m in the striker, made him our top earner with a basic of £85,000 per week and an overall package understood to be closer to £100,000 per week. We have been patient, we have been tolerant, […]
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Sorry Mr Carroll but I’ve had enough of you!
Posted on 25 July 2017.
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Fantasy Football bargain buys
Posted on 25 July 2017.
We pick out seven players who could defy their modest Sky Sports Fantasy Football valuations this season…
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Hernandez the Hammers hero?
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Is Javier Hernandez the answer to West Ham’s recent striker struggles?
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West Ham’s summer business will be even better if they complete this deal
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Well well well, haven’t I had to eat a massive slice of Humble Pie! I admit that maybe I was hasty and quite angry over last season, which was shown in my previous article that the current board need to sell up and go but boy, they have well and truly mugged me right off. […]
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Payet was a flawed individual – Sullivan
Posted on 25 July 2017.
The France international was sold because he was a disruptive influence, according to West Ham’s co-owner
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‘Flawed Payet wasted potential’
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has labelled a Dimitri Payet a “flawed individual” who has never reached his potential.
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West Ham welcome new boys Joe Hart and Marko Arnautovic
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham kicked their pre-season preparations up a gear on Tuesday as they arrived at a training camp in the German town of Rotenburg. Hart and Arnautovic have linked up with the squad.
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Chicharito Finally Joins As Young Hammers Get Off The Mark
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Hammers unveil Chicharito Javier Hernandez was finally announced as a Hammers player last night, as Chicharito fever kicked in amongst The Claret and Blue Army. The former Manchester United man became Mexico’s all-time leading goal-scorer in May and has joined for a fee of around £16 million from Bayer Leverkusen, which is being hailed as the bargain of the summer. “The Little Pea” was unveiled in Claret & Blue on the club’s official…
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Andy Carroll back in rehab
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Andy Carroll is back in the U.K and is back in rehab at Rush Green training ground. The player has been noticeably absent in official West Ham photos and videos in Germany but Claret and Hugh have been told he is now concentrating on getting fit back in England. The news comes a couple of […]
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Sullivan confirms Sakho news
Posted on 25 July 2017.
David Sullivan has tipped Arthus Masuaku and Edmilson Fernandez to come good this season. And he has admitted that he has been under intense pressure to get the transfer window right this summer after last year’s horror show. He admitted: “Yes there was a lot of pressure but in Masuaku and Fernandez who cost around […]
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Sullivan excited by Hernandez
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham joint-chairman David Sullivan believes Javier Hernandez could be one of the best players ever to have signed for the club.
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Sullivan: ‘Calleri couldn’t score and Zaza was disinterested’
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has talked about last summer’s transfer signings insisting two of them will still come good for the club while voicing his disappointment about the two strikers he took on loan last season. David Sullivan told Jim White and Tony Cottee on Talk Sport radio: “I like a couple of players we signed […]
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Sullivan knew Payet was a flawed individual
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has admitted he knew Dimitri Payet was a flawed individual before they bought him but added he was a fantastic servant to the club for the first twelve months. Speaking to Jim White and Tony Cottee about Payet on Talksport this morning Sullivan said: “I think we knew Dimitri was flawed when […]
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Javier Hernandez could be best West Ham signing – Sullivan
Posted on 25 July 2017.
The Hammers completed what could be one of the deals of the summer on Monday, landing the former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker for £16million from Bayer Leverkusen.
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‘We have a policy of buying players for now, not tomorrow’
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan went on Talksport radio this morning to speak to Jim White and former Hammer Tony Cottee about the transfer window for West Ham. Sullivan told White and Cottee “We have been working very long and very hard on them, eight days ago we had one deal in the bag with […]
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‘Chicharito’ hits the wage jackpot
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Chicharito’s switch to the Hammers is understood to have cost the club around £120k a week plus add ons. ClaretandHugh has learned that the little Mexican has landed a deal which will put him in advance of the club’s previous highest earner Dimitri Payet with the bonus clauses. It has emerged from our insiders that […]
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How will Javier Hernandez fare at West Ham?
Posted on 25 July 2017.
The perception of Hernandez – or ‘Chicharito’ (‘little pea’) as he is more commonly known – is of an old-fashioned poacher of a centre-forward. But can he find the goals to match?
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Hammers ‘One out, One in’ policy
Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham will operate a ‘one out, one in’ policy for the remainder of the Summer transfer window following the £16m signing of Javier Hernandez yesterday. The Hammers have now reached their upper annual wage budget as well as having a full squad of twenty-five players. With the primary transfer business done the club will […]
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Sak’s back and ” looking very strong”
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Slaven Bilic believes the club now has enough strikers at the club and will not be investing in anymore. Diafra Sakho is now back in full training with the squad and “looking very strong indeed ” which looks set to give the manager another big option. However, Andy Carroll remains on the first team sidelines […]
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Chicharito can’t wait to face Utd
Posted on 25 July 2017.
Javier Hernandez says he cannot wait to face his former club Manchester United on the opening weekend of the new Premier League season.
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The personal cost of signing Chicharito
Posted on 25 July 2017.
The exciting signing of Chicharito has not been welcomed by every West Ham supporter. A handful of fans made silly online wagers on social media believing the Hammers would never sign the 29-year-old Mexican in a million years. Ben Pattison said on twitter on 14th July “If West Ham sign Javier Hernandez I will give everyone […]
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Hammers balance the books
Posted on 25 July 2017.
This summers transfer dealings have been made all the more incredible in the way David Sullivan has managed to balance the financial books in the wake of a crazy inflated transfer market. Yesterday’s transfer of Javier Hernandez for £16m has bought the summer spending to £45m or closer to £50m when you factor in signing-on bonuses […]
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Hernandez makes DS an unlikely Hammers hero
Posted on 24 July 2017.
David Sullivan tonight finds himself in the unaccustomed position of being a Hammers fans hero. He will accept that with the same unworried shrug as when a vociferous section were calling for his head a few weeks ago and claiming the club was heading for relegation if he didn’t get his finger out. One thing […]
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‘Chicharito’ so happy to be a Hammer
Posted on 24 July 2017.
West Ham Unitedhave formally announced that Javier Hernandez has tonight becomea Hammer.. In a website statement the club said: “The 29-year-old former Manchester United and Real Madrid star put pen to paper on a three-year deal on Monday afternoon, and will fly out to Germany in the coming days to meet up with Slaven Bilic […]
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West Ham confirm £16m Javier Hernandez signing
Posted on 24 July 2017.
The former Manchester United man has signed a three-year deal worth £140,000 a week at the London Stadium with the club hoping to have finally solved their long-term search for a goalscorer.
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West Ham sign Hernandez
Posted on 24 July 2017.
West Ham have completed the £16m signing of Bayer Leverkusen striker Javier Hernandez.
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