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Slaven Bilic’s often unbending nature will be put to the test big time this weekend when he may feel forced to face up to a couple of major selection decisions. The Bournemouth match brought back all the pressure he has been living with through a difficult week with calls for Andre Ayew to be given […]

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Turkish football media claim that West Ham United have sent scouts to Istanbul ahead of tonights clash between Besiktas and Olympiakos. The report claims the Hammers have been keeping close tabs on the Turkey international Cenk Tosun in recent months. West Ham scouts will be monitoring the strikers progress tonight at the Vodafone Arena. However, […]

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Michail Antonio declared himself “ overwhelmed and I’m buzzing” after learning that he’d been called back into the Emngland squad. The Hammers top man declared: “It’s great for me and I just feel all the work I’m doing on the pitch is starting to get noticed. I’m buzzing and hopefully I can go and get […]

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Slaven Bilic’s side will aim to recover from a morale-sapping defeat to Bournemouth as they prepare to welcome the Premier League champions

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Football can be an unforgiving and fickle beast. One minute you are lifting the Premier League trophy, the next you are unemployed. This season, we at West Ham have already been the victim of just how fickle football can be. A certain French midfielder (sorry but can’t quite remember his name) was signing a lucrative new contract with a loyalty bonus and the next thing we knew was refusing to play and on a plane back to …

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has been told he needs to all but rebuild his stuttering side ahead of next season’s Premier League campaign. Hammers legend Tony Cottee reckons the crop of recruits brought in last summer have failed to ignite the London Stadium outfit’s season and he is backed up by the fact that they are currently 11th in the standings with 33 points. West Ham suffered defeats in their previous two top flight matches at Bournemouth and at …

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Slaven Bilic has confirmed that be believes the decision by Leicester City to sack Claudio Ranieri remains a bad one. The Hammers manager made his comments as the Irons head for the weekend clash against the Foxes saying: “I said after they changed manager what I thought about it and still I don’t understand it. […]

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Slaven Bilic is in total agreement with co chairman David Sullivan’s brutal assessment of the performance against Bournemouth and is ready to put things straight on Saturday. Sullivan had made it clear that the manager and the squad had a lot of thinking to do after the defeat and Bilic admitted he was 100 per […]

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Michail Antonio has been called up to the England national squad for the third time ahead of the side’s fixtures against Germany and Lithuania. The midfielder has been in amazing form for the Irons all season and is the Club’s top scorer with nine goals. Antonio will be hoping to make his international debut for […]

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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic says Leicester City’s sacking of Claudio Ranieri was a ‘bad’ decision that has been vindicated.

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Joint chairmen freeze season ticket prices It has been announced this week in a statement from David Gold and David Sullivan that season ticket prices will remain the same for existing season ticket holders. Ever since the two Cockneys took over in 2010 they have promised affordable family football and they certainly delivered on that pledge when season ticket prices were slashed as far down as £99 for u16s for our first season at the London Stadium. This season the club reported…

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We all know how bad an idea The Insider was for the club. The decision to tell the world what we were up to behind the scenes during a transfer window was always a catastrophic one, as we experienced last summer when almost every single striker we targeted ended up somewhere else. Karren Brady pulled […]

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Slaven Bilic has called for West Ham attacking stars Michail Antonio and Andy Carroll to be called up for England when coach Gareth Southgate announces his squad this afternoon.

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Andy Carroll has missed out on an international call up for the games against Germany and Lithuania It had been thought that Gareth Southgate was ready to hand him a recall given the shortage of strikers available to him currently. Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge and Wayne Rooney are all unavailable because of inury but the […]

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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has played down the significance of David Sullivan’s comments following the recent loss at Bournemouth.

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In a recent poll conducted by FootballFanCast.com, it has emerged that 56% of West Ham fans would be happy with a move for Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic this summer. The Express had linked West Ham with a move for the Serbia international before the Janaury transfer window but, as expected, a move never materialised. Now, […]

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Italian media claim that Genoa star Diego Laxalt could move to West Ham this summer. The Uruguayan has long linked with a move to the Premier League and reports claim he is interested in joining the Hammers after they scouted him. TuttoMercatoWeb claim Genoa are willing to sell Laxalt in the Summer after turning down […]

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Daily Mirror man and friend of this site Darren Lewis, says West Ham have been alerted to in-form Sampdoria striker Luis Muriel. The 25-year-old Colombia international, who’s scored 10 goals and contributed nine assists in 28 games for the Italians this season, has a £24million release clause in his contract. His form has led to interest […]

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Premier League plans to clamp down on illegal football streams following a High Court action against UK internet providers is reminiscent of a similar battle fought and lost by the film and music industry. Both took on the internet pirates but despite their court battles ultimately illegal downloading of music was replaced by Itunes, Youtube […]

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I find it quite easy to forgive Mark Noble’s outburst about fans not understanding football just as I did Slaven Bilic’s rant about a lack of intensity from the Hammers team after they were hammered by Arsenal. Why? Easy… It’s because we all  say stuff we can regret later and Mark – as loyal a club […]

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Slaven Bilic’s future is back in the melting pot as the club continue to pursue a minimum requirement of a top ten finish. Expectations have been regularly revised throughout the campaign but the big yardstick by which Slaven will be measured is  whether the Irons finish in the top or bottom half following the club’s […]

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West Ham defender Jose Fonte believes he will flourish under the stewardship of Hammers boss Slaven Bilic. Fonte says he has much to learn from his current manager given that he, too, played in the heart of central defence during his career. Bilic recruited Portugal ace Fonte in January from Southampton for a fee believed to be in the region of £8million but has only tasted victory once in his six outings for the London…

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The Foxes defied the odds to overcome a first-leg deficit against Sevilla, and the right back will be unfazed by whoever they face next

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MJTAC is delighted to have had the opportunity to catch up with the West Ham manager Chris Darwen following the Hammers most recent victory, the thrilling 3-2 win over Watford at Vicarage Road. MJTAC: So Chris, firstly congratulations on your start as manager. You must be thrilled with how it is going so far? CD: Thank you, and yes. It is good to see that the players are taking on board…

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West Ham shares the same size pitch as no fewer than eight fellow Premier League clubs. The London Stadium pitch is 7,140 square metres. That’s the same size as Watford’s Vicarage Road surface, West Brom’s Hawthorns pitch, Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, Swansea City’s Liberty Stadium, Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium, Manchester United’s Old Trafford, Manchester City’s Etihad […]

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