Premier League clubs have some of the largest wage bills in the world. A table from the Daily Mail ranks the leading wage spenders for the 2016-17 season. West Ham are ranked 17th in the world with a wage bill estimated to reach £95m next season. Official financial numbers for the 2016-17 campaign won’t be […]
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Hammers have the 17th biggest wage bill in the world
Posted on 03 June 2017.
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Gonzo wants Your Shout – brilliant new feature
Posted on 02 June 2017.
Brand new and exclusive from ClaretandHugh’s partners Hammers Chat is a new YouTube channel that features YOU! We’ve asked a few of the members of the forum at www.hammerschat.com to send in their mobile phone clips and give opinions on the weeks West Ham news. It’s the chance for the fans to get involved throughout […]
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KPMG snub West Ham in football report
Posted on 02 June 2017.
West Ham have been excluded in a recent report of The 32 European elite of football clubs in terms of valuation. Eight clubs from the Premier League were included including Everton, Leicester City, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal but the Hammers were snubbed. The selection criteria was as follow 1. Clubs […]
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West Ham and Everton among clubs monitoring £20m goalkeeper
Posted on 02 June 2017.
West Ham United’s goalkeeper search could lead them to Manchester City stopper Joe Hart this summer. According to The Daily Mail, Manchester City are willing to let Joe Hart leave the club this summer for £20m. Manchester City recently signed Ederson and they have Claudio Bravo on their books too. This leaves Joe Hart as […]
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Newcastle leading Semedo chase
Posted on 02 June 2017.
Newcastle are leading the chase for highly-rated Portuguese centre-back Ruben Semedo, ahead of West Ham and West Brom, Sky sources understand.
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Danish striker signals he is available this summer
Posted on 01 June 2017.
West Ham target Martin Braithwaite has revealed that he plans to leave Toulouse this summer. The Hammers have been previously interested in the Danish forward, who scored 11 goals in 34 Ligue 1 games this season and he is thought to remain on a long list of strikers who might be available this transfer window. […]
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Robert Snodgrass poll: The verdict
Posted on 30 May 2017.
Over two-thirds of supporters who voted in Claret and Hugh’s Bank Holiday poll believe West Ham should cut their losses on Robert Snodgrass and sell him if an offer comes in this Summer. Almost two thousand fans voted in the poll with 1,341 (67.97%) saying we should sell him and recover as much money as possible. […]
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Carroll is expecting forth child
Posted on 29 May 2017.
West Ham striker Andy Carroll is expecting a second baby with his celebrity fiance Billi Mucklow. Mucklow took to Instagram to share the happy news with her followers. With a picture of her son holding her baby bump, the TV reality star revealed the news to her 389,000 followers on social media. She wrote:”Suns Out Bump […]
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Zabaleta tasted success at Man City and has challenged West Ham to believe in winning trophies
Posted on 27 May 2017.
Having rejected offers from Italy and Spain to join the Hammers, the experienced Argentine full-back wants his new club to chase down major silverware
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West Ham sign Pablo Zabaleta after defender’s release by Manchester City
Posted on 26 May 2017.
• Full-back signs two-year deal with east London club • Álvaro Arbeloa, Jonathan Calleri and Gokhan Tore all exit West Ham have signed the former Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta. The Argentina full-back will join the London club on a two-year deal from 1 July, when his contract with City expires having been released at the Etihad Stadium. “This is an absolute pleasure to be part of West Ham,” Zabaleta told West Ham TV. “I hope I…
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Great signing – now let’s find those strikers
Posted on 26 May 2017.
Welcome Pablo Zabaletta – Argentine right back, still a top defender and from all my Manchester mates tell me, a great bloke. Yeah of course there will be the moaners who reckon he’s coming to us too late and already I hear the “arriving at the end of his career” grumbles. Not many players get […]
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West Ham drop their interest in Premier League striker with Bournemouth set to complete deal
Posted on 23 May 2017.
West Ham United have dropped out of the race to sign Jermain Defoe and he is closing in on a move to Bournemouth instead, reports The Telegraph. Jermain Defoe has previously played for both sides but West Ham, who had been heavily linked with a move for Defoe, have ended their interest. The Hammers have […]
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Irons looking hard at top six striker targets
Posted on 23 May 2017.
West Ham are looking at every striker with a top six club unable to get regular first team football as targets this summer. As reported here earlier the Irons remain very keen on Chelsea’s Michy Batshuyai but Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho (above) is another top target with both expecting to cost between £25 – £30 […]
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Pearson’s Premier League Roundup: Hammers win away on the final day
Posted on 22 May 2017.
West Ham end the season outside the top half but on goal difference alone. The 2-1 win away at Burnley means they are the only side outside of the top six to win at Turf Moor since the opening day of the season. One defeat in seven is a good way to end what has been a disappointing season for West Ham and they would have hoped for more at the start of the season. Burnley…
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Sunderland game cost £6m and 3 places
Posted on 22 May 2017.
West Ham’s away game against Sunderland cost the Hammers a cool £6m and an eighth-place finish in the Premier League table. The Irons finished the 2016/2017 season in eleventh place yesterday on 45 points but just one point separated the next three places. West Brom finished in tenth place with 45 points on better goal difference than […]
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Slaven Bilic hasn’t enjoyed first season at London Stadium
Posted on 22 May 2017.
Slaven Bilic admits West Ham’s season was not enjoyable – but expects them to benefit hugely from the experience.
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Two PL debuts… the starting XI West Ham could opt for v. Burnley
Posted on 21 May 2017.
One game remains in the Premier League this season and an underwhelming campaign is set to come to an end for West Ham United. West Ham have struggled to replicate their success of last season after a poor summer of recruitment and persistent moans about the new stadium. A number of injuries have also held […]
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Bilic contract talks could start this year
Posted on 20 May 2017.
Slaven Bilic can expect to be handed a new deal as early as December if he get the club away to the sort of start he enjoyed during his first season. There has never been a real appetite to part company with the manager and, as we reported earlier, he is set to lead the […]
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David Gold: Youth breakthrough is unlikely
Posted on 20 May 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Gold has raised his doubts of a breakthrough into the Premier League first team for the Hammer’s latest crop of teenagers from the Academy. Replying to the news that Reece Oxford, Reece Burke and Domingos Quina will most likely go out on loan again next season Gold admitted: “I think we all have […]
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Bilic: ‘West Ham have to be realistic with transfer targets’
Posted on 20 May 2017.
Antoine Griezmann is wanted by just about everybody in Europe. But Bilic insists West Ham has to be realistic about their transfer targets this summer. “We are not looking at that level, take out those,” he said. “We are not looking for the Griezmanns. We know it’s out of our range to get them. We […]
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Ayew could re-join Payet at Marseille
Posted on 19 May 2017.
West Ham’s record signing Andre Ayew could re-join Marseille like Dimitri Payet did according to his father. Speaking to Le Parisien on Friday his father, Abedi Pelé said: “If the owner and the fans, who are very important for the club, have the same vision, Marseille will once again become a big club. We’ll see […]
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Mark Lawrenson shares his thoughts on what will happen when West Ham travel to Burnley on Sunday
Posted on 19 May 2017.
With the final match of this Premier League season set to be played on Sunday, the West Ham United clash is something of a dead rubber. Neither West Ham nor Burnley have much to play for. The winner of this tie finishes higher in the league while a draw would see West Ham finish above […]
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Calleri wants to remain in Premier League
Posted on 17 May 2017.
Hammer Jonathan Calleri has spoken of his ‘happiness’ at West Ham after starting in the last four games for the Hammers as he comes to the end of his season-long loan period. The Argentine has struggled with life at the London Stadium and to adapt to the pace of the Premier League. “I am happy […]
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One picture says it all
Posted on 16 May 2017.
The ClaretandHugh flag was still proudly fluttering but the empty seats spoke volumes for the feelings of most after the shocking defeat by Liverpool. Yes we have supported them through the most frustrating and disappointing season in a long time but the message beamed out from the club after the embarrassing exit by the fans […]
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Liverpool steward had a ticket
Posted on 15 May 2017.
A photo of a Liverpool fan in a High visibility Steward’s jacket went viral on social media on Sunday as it purported to show the lengths Liverpool fans would go to get into the game. The twitter post with a photo said “Crazy Liverpool fan dressed as a Steward at the West Ham game to get […]
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Hammers were just shameful!
Posted on 15 May 2017.
Carol Combes -an admin on the ClaretandHugh Facebook group and website – isn’t one of our usual bloggers. But such was her anger at what she saw against Liverpool that she has been movcd to tell the squad exactly what she thinks of them! A message to the West Ham squad: As a long-standing West […]
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