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• Premier League club submitted £14m bid for winger over weekend • Payet has been offered £70,000 a week to move to London Marseille have offered Dimitri Payet an improved contract in the hope they can deflect West Ham United’s interest in the France international forward. Related: West Ham return for longest of seasons after the shortest of summers | James Riach Continue reading…

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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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Season to begin on 8 August 2015 and will conclude on 15 May 2016 Liverpool face daunting run of early away fixtures 8 August 2015: Arsenal v West Ham United, Bournemouth v Aston Villa, Chelsea v Swansea City, Everton v Watford, Leicester City v Sunderland Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United v Southampton, Norwich City v Crystal Palace, Stoke City v Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion v Manchester City. Continue reading…

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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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• Defender turned down Internazionale, Sunderland and West Ham • Richards pays tribute to Manchester City supporters on his Instagram account Micah Richards will take his medical examination at Aston Villa on Tuesday to complete a free transfer from Manchester City and resurrect his career in the Premier League after a year on loan with Fiorentina. Richards has turned down the chance to join his former manager at City, Roberto Mancini, at Internazionale to accept Villa’s terms …

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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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There is much to like about the earring-sporting guitar player who sacrificed his career for Croatia at France 98 but the jury is still out on his management In January 2012 Slaven Bilic had an operation. Doctors attended to an old injury, one that had made him walk a little funny for years, putting all his weight on one foot as he made every other step. The injury dated back to the most glorious episode of his playing days but it …

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• Club release statement saying search has entered final stages • Former defender Slaven Bilic is the favourite to succeed Sam Allardyce West Ham have revealed that they intend to announce their new manager “within the next 48 hours”. After Sam Allardyce’s departure within minutes of their final match of the season against Newcastle, West Ham’s co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold have led the search to appoint a replacement. Related: Harry Redknapp: I’d like to see Rio Ferdinand as West…

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• Former Hammers manager backs recently retired player for role at West Ham • Redknapp adds: ‘He has a great football brain. He always had good ideas’ Harry Redknapp has backed Rio Ferdinand to become manager of West Ham. Redknapp spent seven years in charge at the Hammers and brought Ferdinand through the youth ranks before giving him his professional debut in 1996. Later in their careers the two linked up again when …

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• Former Swansea manager had been linked with Newcastle and West Ham • Laudrup guided Lekhwiya SC to league and cup double last season The former Swansea manager Michael Laudrup is set to sign a contract extension with Qatari champions Lekhwiya SC, his agent has confirmed. Laudrup, 50, had been linked with the vacant managerial positions at both Newcastle and West Ham after guiding Lekhwiya to a league and cup double in his first season. Michael Laudrup after…

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Managers must now decide their transfer targets for next season and move quickly to sign them. Here is our team-by-team assessment: The three most obvious positions where Arsenal require an upgrade are goalkeeper, centre-forward and defensive midfielder. In goal, Wojciech Szczesny and David Ospina have had too many jittery and unreliable moments. Up top, on days when Olivier Giroud has strained to make an impression, the need for an…

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• Thirty-one-year-old striker to leave Upton Park for second time • ‘I’ve grown from being a boy to a man here’ Carlton Cole has announced he has been released by West Ham for the second time in two years. The striker was let go by the club in the summer of 2013 but rejoined on a short-term deal five months later before signing an 18-month contract in January 2014. However, the striker has taken to …

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• West Ham set for early kick-off with first Europa League round on 2 July • Europa League qualifying draw takes place on 22 June • West Ham confirm Sam Allardyce’s contract will not be renewed West Ham’s new manager will have Europa League football to contend with after the club qualified through the fair play league. Just days after the end of the season and Sam Allardyce’s departure, West Ham have secured …

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• Club’s search for successor to Sam Allardyce already under way • Slaven Bilic and Michael Laudrup expected to be in the running • Ancelotti’s surgery to rule him out of running for West Ham job • West Ham are taking a big gamble by getting rid of Big Sam West Ham will demonstrate their ambition by promising significant transfer funds plus a lucrative contract as they seek to lure a successor to Sam Allardyce to…

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We round up our favourite pictures from Sunday’s matches in the English top flight, the final matches of the 2014/15 season Continue reading…

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Magpies’ manager John Carver says fans can look forward to new ‘players coming through the door’ as club assures him that money will be spent. Newcastle narrowly avoided relegation with a 2-0 win over West Ham United on Sunday, finishing 15th in the Premier League, a victory which Carver calls ’emotional’ Continue reading…

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Outgoing Hammers’ manager Sam Allardyce comments on his time at the club and his plans now that he has been let go. His departure was confirmed just minutes after the London team went down 2-0 to Newcastle United in the last match of the season on Sunday. West Ham finished 12th in the Premier League Continue reading…

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From Leicester City’s destruction of Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United to freescoring Chelsea’s superb win at Goodison, here are five contenders for match of the season. Now submit your suggestions • Have your say in the other categories too Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2014-15 Premier League season . Now that the campaign has ended we would like you to help us choose your favourite goal, the best referee and the best manager, and other winners in a …

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• Former Croatia international to leave Turkey at end of season • Has been heavily linked with replacing Sam Allardyce at Upton Park Slaven Bilic has confirmed he will leave Besiktas at the end of the season, a decision which is likely to see the former West Ham defender linked even stronger with a return to the east London club as a replacement for Sam Allardyce. “I won’t be Besiktas’ manager next season. I’m proud of what I’ve done…

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• 60-year-old’s agent will meet David Sullivan and David Gold to learn fate • Allardyce is to vacate his east London apartment: ‘whatever will be, will be’ • Bilic to leave Besiktas at end of season amid West Ham speculation Sam Allardyce will learn on Monday if he is to continue in his role as West Ham manager, but has revealed that he has no plans to attend a meeting between his agent and the …

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• Sheringham, 49, will replace Graham Westley in the summer • Former Manchester United forward leaves role as attacking coach • Southend sink Stevenage to seal League Two play-off final place Teddy Sheringham has made his first foray into management by taking charge at Stevenage. The 49-year-old leaves his role as the attacking coach at West Ham to join the League Two club. The former Tottenham and Manchester United forward, …

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• Relegation in 2009 led to lots of backroom staff losin jobs • Carver hits back at criticism over players getting days off • Match report: QPR add to Newcastle relegation worries John Carver has reminded his Newcastle United players that should the team be relegated on Sunday, several members of the backroom support staff will lose their jobs. “There’s an awful lot of good local people who’ve been here a long time and a lot of their friends lost their jobs…

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Speaking on Wednesday, Newcastle United manager John Carver says relegation would be unbearable, and says his players understand the importance of their match against West Ham United on Sunday. Carver says he has instructed his team to stay off social media and from football coverage on television. The match will be the Magpies’ last of the Premiership season and will decide whether the club, currently 17th in the League, will be relegated Continue reading…

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Featuring three of the best goals you’ll ever see from one player in one match, a beautiful team effort from Poland and a smart elastico from the US women’s team Continue reading…

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Brendan Rodgers’ tinkering is harming Liverpool, Manchester United may have bigger problems than David de Gea leaving and clubs queue up for Danny Ings In Manchester United’s 1-1 draw in the final home match of the season on Sunday Old Trafford might have bade farewell to David de Gea, Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao as each player’s future at the club is unclear. While De Gea seems more and more certain to depart for Real…

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