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Cheikhou Kouyate has left for Crystal Palace and Pedro Obiang reportedly wants to return to Sampdoria and may well be sold to fund the pursuit of a central defender, which means that Manuel Pellegrini is short of central midfield options and may be about to get shorter. Of course, the likes of Josh Cullen may […] The post 25-year-old destroyer is the ideal man to replace Kouyate at West Ham appeared first on

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Cheikhou Kouyate has joined Crystal Palace on a permanent four-year contract for a transfer fee worth £9.5m plus £1.5m of potential add-ons.  The Senegal international has left the Hammers having made 147 appearances and scored 15 goals across four seasons. The midfielder joined from Belgian club Anderlecht for £7m in summer 2014. In today’s Claret and […]

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The Senegal international has signed a four-year contract at Selhurst Park after moving across London from the Hammers

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With one week to go before the transfer window closes on 9 August, who should the 20 Premier League clubs sign? Unai Emery has already made five signings – Lucas Torreira , Bernd Leno , Sokratis , Mattéo Guendouzi and Stephan Lichtsteiner – so may settle for what he has. However, another centre-back would be very useful given Laurent Koscielny’s long-standing injury problems. Newcastle captain Jamaal Lascelles would cost up to £30m but the 24-year-old has the…

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Crystal Palace have offered £11 million for Cheik Kouyate as they bid to close a cheap deal for the Senegal midfielder. But as is the case with Pedro Obiang, who Sampdoria want for the same fee, the Hammers have stuck a £15 million price tag on the player. With the Hammers having strengthened throughout the […]

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West Ham United are reportedly in talks to sell Cheikhou Kouyate to Crystal Palace. Sky Sports is reporting that West Ham are willing to sell the Senegal midfielder to Palace for £10 million. The 28-year-old, who only recently returned to training after featuring predominantly as a substitute for Senegal at the World Cup this summer, […] The post Crystal Palace target has been a good servant for West Ham but …

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• Fredericks’ contract with Fulham expires this summer • West Ham adamant Marko Arnautovic will not be sold West Ham are confident of signing the right-back Ryan Fredericks, whose contract with Fulham expires this summer. Fredericks is also a target for Crystal Palace, among other clubs, and Fulham are trying to persuade the 25-year-old to extend his contract after they were promoted to the Premier League . The defender is due to …

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The best preparation a team can have for a play-off final is the experience of losing one the year before By Richard Foster , author of The Agony and the Ecstasy Iain Dowie coined the word bouncebackability in the 2003-04 season when describing how his Crystal Palace team had gone from the fringes of relegation in December to winning promotion through the play-offs in May. Not many managers have been responsible for adding words to the English lexicon but Dowie shared the…

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West Ham’s 2-0 victory over Leicester City all but secured the club’s Premier League status for another season but while we were celebrating, disaster struck for other supporters. After a decade in the Premier League, Stoke City were relegated on Saturday following a 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace and a mass exodus is now expected […]

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As the fight to avoid the drop intensifies, we look at why the affected clubs are struggling, what will decide their fate and whether their managers are to blame Pl 35 GD -15 Pts 37 Related: Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Related: Crystal Palace match is ‘a war we have to win’ says Stoke’s Xherdan Shaqiri Remaining matches Continue reading…

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With around half the division in danger of falling into the Championship, we analyse which clubs have the most to fear West Brom look to be a write-off even though their fixture list seems relatively favourable. Their form is deteriorating rather than improving, and the injury to Daniel Sturridge is an unfortunate, if foreseeable, blow. Stoke, by contrast, are improving, seemingly energised by Paul Lambert, some astute January signings and an in-form Xherdan Shaqiri. The fear…

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Wondering who to put in and who to leave out of your fantasy football team? Goal has all the latest on expected injured and banned players

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The 29-year-old was forced off in the Eagles’ stalemate with the Hammers on Tuesday night at the London Stadium

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In the 25th round of matches of the 2017/208 Premier League season, David Moyes’ West Ham United play host to Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace in a battle of two teams lurking just above danger in the bottom half, but both in the top ten of the Form Table, a thorough six-pointer. The Hammers go into the affair off the back of a disappointing Emirates FA Cup Fourth-Round exit at the…

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Crystal Palace have moved ahead of West Ham United in the race to sign Khouma Babacar, according to a report by The Guardian. West Ham and West Brom had been interested in Babacar but it looks like Crystal Palace are set to win the race to land the Fiorentina striker. The Senegal international has emerged […]

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The winter window opens on 1 January with most clubs desperate to make signings. Here we look at the 20 clubs and the players they hope will arrive Arsène Wenger anticipates that he will be busier fielding enquires about fringe players in his squad – he would be open to moving a few out – but he would be interested in an addition if the opportunity presented itself. The want-away Alexis Sánchez will…

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A review of the weekend’s Premier League action including Manchester City’s record-breaking win over neighbours United

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Five clubs in mid-table last season have sacked their managers, in part because Brighton, Huddersfield and Newcastle do not look like relegation fodder – and Sunderland’s woes show what the drop could mean Five Premier League managers have lost their jobs so far this season before we are a third of the way in, and looking at the bottom three in particular the figure could still rise again before Christmas. To put that into context, this time …

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The manager bemoaned a lapse of judgement in stoppage time that cost his side two points away to Crystal Palace

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The clock had ticked past the allotted minimum of six minutes of added time when the ball reached Wilfried Zaha deep on the left. Crystal Palace had given everything in their demented pursuit of an equaliser in the second half. Joe Hart had made save after astonishing save, including one from James Tomkins in the 91st minute, and they had hit the woodwork twice. They were falling agonisingly short. As Robert Madley prepared to blow for full time, a ninth defeat in…

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West Ham failed to hold on for a second successive win in all competitions as Wilfried Zaha equalised at the death for Crystal Palace.

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On Matchday Ten of the 2017/2018 Premier League season, Slaven Bilic’s Hammers make the trip to South London to face off with Crystal Palace, in what could be a decisive clash for the Croat’s future in East London. The Eagles, under Roy Hodgson, come into the clash off the back of Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup embarrassment at the hands of Bristol City, meanwhile the travelling Claret & Blue Army will be brimming with confidence after …

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West Ham welcome Brighton to the London Stadium on Friday evening in a game that most Hammers supporters are expecting us to win. As we have witnessed so far this season, there have been more than a fair share of unpredicted outcomes, including Crystal Palace’s stunning 2-1 home win against Chelsea last weekend. On the […]

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There are games that are defined by false nines. This was an afternoon that, for better and worse, revolved around old-fashioned target men. Long before Chris Wood headed Burnley’s equaliser, Andy Carroll had made a dramatic departure, sent off for two challenges that evoked earlier eras and invited suggestions of idiocy. His Burnley counterpart eventually ensured it cost West Ham and the points were shared in a game some …

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Crystal Palace lost a seventh successive game while late goals swung matches at West Ham and West Brom 5.11pm BST Right then, I’m off in search of a basket of biscuits. It’s been a blast. Bye! 5.10pm BST Peter Crouch does some grinning: They threw everything at us. I thought they played well today, Southampton. Thankfully we held out, dug in and got the three points. When you get an…

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Liverpool were glad to see their creative lynchpin back with a bang to take down Leicester, while the Chelsea forward netted a hat-trick versus Stoke

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