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• Consultant says: ‘He will be available for selection within 10 to 12 weeks’ • Forward needed oxygen before being carried off in Europa League West Ham will be without Enner Valencia for up to 12 weeks and the club admit there remains a possibility he may yet require an operation. Related: West Ham 2-2 Astra Giurgiu | Europa League third qualifying round match report Continue reading…

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Newcastle need a return on Ashley’s commitment; Sunderland expect trouble; anticipation is high at Swansea; Watford look to the obvious from their Uruguayan centre-back and Spurs want Lee Marvin leading their Dirty Dozen A new head coach, new backroom staff and a new commitment from Mike Ashley to back the team with cash … this has been a summer of change after all the stagnation. Steve McClaren wasn’t first choice with many fans, but he was probably the most experienced…

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• Ecuador striker sustained injury in 2-2 draw with Astra Giurgiu • Valencia set to see specialist consultant on Monday morning West Ham striker Enner Valencia suffered an apparently “significant” injury to his right knee and right ankle in the Europa League clash with Astra Giurgiu, the club have announced. The Ecuador forward was starting his first game since returning from the Copa America, but was stretchered off with a potentially serious knee injury before half-time. Continue

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• West Ham 2-2 Astra Giurgiu • Valencia 23, Zárate 51; Boldrin 71, Ogbonna 82 og Slaven Bilic could hardly believe it. For an hour, almost everything went according to plan. West Ham United led 2-0 thanks to excellent goals from Enner Valencia and Mauro Zárate and they were producing their most convincing performance so far under their new manager. The football was bright and inventive, the Upton Park crowd happy. However, an evening that had promised …

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Roberto Martínez faces a difficult start, and has yet to seriously strengthen his squad, as he looks to prove that his disappointing second season was a blip Guardian writers’ predicted position: 8th (NB: this is not necessarily Andy Hunter’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 11th Continue reading…

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• England international winger joins Championship club on four-year deal • ‘He’s more than just a player’ says Boro manager Aitor Karanka The winger Stewart Downing has rejoined his former club Middlesbrough from West Ham on a four-year deal. Downing drops down from the Premier League to rejoin his home-town club, who were beaten by Norwich in the Championship play-off final in May. Related: West Ham 1-0 Birkirkara

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• West Ham 1-0 Birkirkara • Tomkins 90 James Tomkins’ scrappy goal in the 90th minute saved West Ham’s blushes with a 1-0 win over Birkirkara in the Europa League second qualifying round first leg clash at Upton Park. With Slaven Bilic in the Upton Park dugout for the first time since his summer appointment, the Irons were expected to make short work of the Maltese Cup winners, having seen off FC Lusitans of Andorra 4-0 on aggregate in the

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It is almost a decade since the Italian striker shocked Liverpool with a stunning scissor-kick for Benfica but he returns to English soil on Thursday having resurfaced at the Maltese champions Birkirkara Fabrizio Miccoli was running towards 50 Birkirkara supporters rather than a 2,000-strong Benfica contingent, and the venue was a sparsely populated Republican Stadium in Yerevan rather than a throbbing Anfield, but there was less of a distinction to be made in the visceral celebrations and urge to …

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From Arsenal’s Daniel Crowley to West Ham’s Reece Oxford, we cast our eye on the young players who could stake a claim for a place in their first teams over the next few weeks There is excitement at the club about this diminutive attacking midfielder, who turns 18 next month and ticks so many boxes for Arsène Wenger. Crowley has excellent close control and technical ability; he can pick a pass and find pockets of space and, above all, he…

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• Full-back impressed while at Upton Park last season • ‘I’m a young player and I loved every minute of it here’ West Ham have re-signed the Arsenal full-back Carl Jenkinson on a season-long loan while at the same time he has also agreed a new long-term deal with the Gunners. Jenkinson, 23, impressed while on loan at Upton Park last season and will now return to form part of

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Marseille’s best player last season has moved to West Ham, Etienne Capoue has given up Spurs for Watford, Xherdan Shaqiri could be off to Stoke City and Crystal Palace are hoping to buy Yohan Cabaye. The TV money is in full flow By Martin Laurence for WhoScored? , part of the Guardian Sport Network The transfer window is barely a week old but it’s already shaping up to be an odd one as far as the Premier League is concerned. A …

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• Ogbonna due in London for a medical after fee of about £10m is settled on • West Ham’s David Gold tweeted Ogbonna picture to welcome Pedro Obiang West Ham United are confident of concluding a deal to secure the Juventus centre-half Angelo Ogbonna, with the Italy international due to take a medical and sign a four-year contract at Upton Park this week. Ogbonna, who has 10 caps, had attracted interest from Everton but the…

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Iain Macintosh tells the story of Steve Davies, who got to live out every football fan’s dream Continue reading…

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• Bilic was criticised by Lusitans for not overseeing Europa League qualifier • Croatian also set to miss the return leg in Andorra next Thursday • Bilic’s first night at West Ham ends in row with Andorran minnows • Match report: West Ham United 3-0 Lusitans West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has insisted he has “big time” respect for Lusitans after he was criticised for sitting out the Europa League qualifying fixture on Thursday evening. Having been appointed as manager…

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• New manager Bilic will not take charge of home tie against FC Lusitans • Academy manager Westley to oversee team of first-team and under-21 players Slaven Bilic will leave the academy manager Terry Westley in charge of West Ham United for the club’s Europa League match against FC Lusitans of Andorra on Thursday night, as the Croat effectively delays his managerial bow at the east London club. Bilic was appointed on 9 June as the successor to Sam Allardyce and the…

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• Left-back reaps reward for outstanding first season in top flight • ‘It’s going to be a massive year for us, the last year at Upton Park’ Aaron Cresswell has signed a new five-year contract at West Ham after playing a starring role in his debut season. The left-back was signed from Ipswich last summer and went on to play every game in West Ham’s Premier League campaign, his first in

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• France international joins on five-year deal • Payet has 15 caps and topped Ligue 1 assist charts last season West Ham have completed the signing of the Marseille forward Dimitri Payet for a fee believed to be £10.7m. The club announced on Friday afternoon that Payet, 28, has signed a five-year deal with a further one-year option and becomes the second major addition to the playing squad under their new manager, Slaven Bilic. Continue reading

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• St Johnstone will play Alashkert; Aberdeen take on Shkendija • Shamrock Rovers to play Progres Niedercorn; Linfield tackle NSI Runavik Slaven Bilic’s first game in charge of West Ham United will see him take on FC Lusitans of Andorra in the Europa League. St Johnstone will play Alashkert of Armenia, while Aberdeen take on Macedonian side Shkendija. Continue reading…

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Slaven Bilic’s squad are back in training this week and while the new manager wants to begin with a feelgood run in the Europa League, the co-chairman David Sullivan knows they must not risk Premier League status By the time West Ham begin their Premier League season they may have already played 11 matches. Such is the remarkable situation that Slaven Bilic walks into, a summer like no other and the last season at the…

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• France forward to earn about £70,000 a week after move to Premier League • Monaco’s Geoffrey Kondogbia on verge of joining Internazionale for £22m West Ham United are confident their improved offer for the Marseille forward Dimitri Payet will force through the transfer of the France international. The player is understood to be keen to leave the Stade Velodrome for a new challenge in the Premier League. The London club’s second offer amounts to …

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• Price of transforming stadium for football and athletics up to £272m • Revelation likely to reignite row over use of public money The overall bill for the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, largely met by taxpayers, has soared to more than £700m before West Ham United move in as tenants next year. In a move likely to reignite the row over the amount of public money used to make…

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Steve McClaren, Quique Sánchez Flores and Slaven Bilic have started work at Newcastle, Watford and West Ham – and each has important business Football managers tend not to allow themselves a great deal of rest and the scope for summer relaxation is particularly slim when you have just taken over a Premier League club. Steve McClaren, Quique Sánchez Flores and Slaven Bilic all have – for different reasons – big jobs on their hands. Here …

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Liverpool start at Stoke City in repeat of last season’s closer Chelsea begin their title defence at home to Swansea City Manchester United open up against Tottenham at Old Trafford Brendan Rodgers will have to demonstrate immediate improvement at Liverpool, as his team will kick off their next Premier League campaign at Stoke City, who walloped them 6-1 at the Britannia Stadium at the end of last season. Related: Premier League 2015-16 fixtures: …

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The new £750,000 facility in Liverpool hosted the 2015 Premier League Kicks Cup, part of a project across England and Wales that offers free opportunities in football which are helping to reduce incidents of crime and antisocial behaviour When the antiquated changing rooms at Jeffrey Humble playing fields in Liverpool were burned out in 2012 it was, according to Barry Kushner, “the low point for an area that had been suffering for 10 years”. Three years on a…

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• Loïc Rémy heads list of West Ham transfer targets • Bilic has Champions League place in sights West Ham United will follow the appointment of Slaven Bilic as manager by launching a series of ambitious moves in the transfer market and will explore the possibility of prising the Chelsea forward, Loïc Rémy, from Stamford Bridge. Related: Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Continue reading…

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• Marseille coach is preferred target for Hammers but may stay at Ligue 1 club • Bilic was interviewed by co-owners and Karren Brady last weekend Slaven Bilic is confident he will be confirmed as West Ham United’s manager within the next 48 hours, although the success of his application may hinge on the club’s current first choice, Marcelo Bielsa, signing a contract extension with Marseille. The club’s co-owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, and the vice-chairman, Karren Brady, interviewed Bilic …

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