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ClaretandHugh’s associate editor Sean Whetstone has taken a look at our remaining games and come to a brave conclusion on how many points we will collect by the end of the season…read on!   West Ham have now hit the magical total of 40 points at the weekend, we would usually be signing with relief at […]

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A big debate is going off over at ClaretandHugh’s facebook group on whether Pedro Obiang will wreck Alex Song’s hopes of a permanent deal. Word on the Hammers grapevine is that Pedro is now ahead of the Barelona loanee for a starting spot. Here’s some random thoughts from CandH members. Come and join then @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ […]

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The chairman’s grand-daughter, Scarlett Rose shows the 79 old owner how to sing the Dimitri Payet song on Valentine’s day. Seven year old Scarlett, daughter of Jacqueline Gold can be seen singing the Payet song as her grand-dad nods along to the tune. A Valentine’s song for @dimpayet17 from the chairman’s @davidgold granddaughter Scarlett Rose […]

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David Gold admits to disappointment after the result at Norwich but reckons everybody under-estimated the effects of the Liverpool 120 minutes. He also pointed out that games against struggling teams are always tough pointing to the Sunderland v Man United game as a prime example. Dpeaking exclusively to ClaretandHugh he said: “Nobody has a divine […]

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Former Hammer Mauro Zarate was sent off after grabbing and possibly biting Inter Milan’s Jeison Murillo by the neck on Valentine’s day evening. However Zarate claims he was punched twice during the scenes that marred the end of Fiorentina’s 2-1 win on Sunday night. After Khouma Babacar scored the winner in stoppage time, Zarate initially refused […]

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West Ham are set to receive a humble £1.5 million for Nikica Jelavic. Despite reports that the club is set to receive anything from between £4 million to £9 million for the striker we revealed on February 2 that the fee would be less than they paid for him. The fee of £9 million mentioned […]

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West Ham striker Nikica Jelavic has arrived in China to complete his move to Beijing Renhe. Jelavic has landed in China to wrap up the formalities of the transfer to Renhe, who were relegated after finishing 15th in the top flight last year. The Croatia forward joined the Hammers on deadline day last September for around £2m […]

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Slaven Bilic has given an assurance there will no repeats of last season with the Hammers sliding down the table. The draw at Norwich, following the defeat at Southampton, has set up the spectre of an end of season similar to last year when we sunk after a brilliant start. The Irons of course started their fall […]

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Pedro Obiang has staked a massive claim to become part of a regular midfield involving Mark Noble and Cheik Kouyate. And that’s very bad news for contract-chasing Alex Song whose hopes of landing a permanent end of season deal are now rated at less than 50/50 by a number of Irons insiders. The loanee returned […]

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Hammers fans have been discussing yesterday’s ‘disappointing’ result at Norwich. Here’s what several of them had to say at the ClaretandHugh forum and  Facebook Group. O Antonio and Enner looked absolutely knackered from Tuesday O Not beating any of the bottom five teams away is quite bad. By my reckoning that is 11 points lost. Motivation […]

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Jack Collison has become a massive Michail Antonio fan. The Hammers cult hero – who has gone through more than most during his time in the game – announced his retirement on Saturday. And tomorrow evening he will appear in the ClaretandHugh interview section of MooreThanJustAPodcast when among much else he will discuss the impact […]

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With another goal and assist yesterday we dedicate this new video to Dimitri Payet today on Valentine’s day. From just 19 appearances the play maker has scored 7 goals, made 5 assists and completed 838 passes with 82% pass accuracy. Dimi we love you! The Love affair continues Share This:

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Michail Antonio is convinced the the injury-hit Hammers squad can mount a sustained Premier League push for a European place, as well as an FA Cup run.   He said: “We’ve definitely got the squad. We’ve got depth. We’ve already shown it this season. “We lost six of our strikers and hung in there. Now […]

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Slaven Bilic is  content with the Norwich result after a physically and mentally.sapping week of football. Speaking to www.whufc.com he said: ” “You can talk about positives and negatives but when you consider we played for 120 minutes on Tuesday night and the fact we were two goals down here in a very short period of […]

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The Irons are set to send out a powerful team against Norwich tomorrow despite havingbeen hit with a humber of injuries. James Tomkins, Winston Reid and Cheik Kouyate will all be unavailable to manager Slaven Bilic but such is the depth of the squad the Irons will still look a formidable proposition to the struggling […]

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David Gold reckons the signing of Dimi Payet to a big new contract will have had the world sitting up and taking notice. And speaking exclusively to ClaretandHugh he said: “We have our eyes on the top four – that’s what everything at this club is geared to. We have made it clear that we […]

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BBC pundit and self styled arch enemy of West Ham fans, Mark Lawrenson has once again tipped the Hammers to lose. No surprise there I suppose but the pundit then goes on to justify his prediction by saying we will be suffering from fatigue after 120 minutes of football earlier this week and adds a […]

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Pete Ellis takes a typically sideways and wacky look at the Payet saga Dimi Payet? To be honest, I think it’s more than a little cheeky his agent to want more dough, BUT, Payet didn’t grow up playing football on the streets of Reunion Island, dreaming about pulling on the shirt and emulating Dale Gordon’s […]

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West Ham came out second in a table watching each home goal scored this season. The cost of attending every home game this season based on the cheapest ticket has been divided by the total number of goals scored. Each goal has cost the average Hammers fan £8.82 to watch just behind Leicester fans who paid […]

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West Ham have responded to speculation that whoever gains the naming rights to the Olympic Stadium is ready to invest in the club. The rumour has been circulating on social media and various websites for some time but there is no agreement in place with anyone at this stage. It’s no secret the Davids have […]

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The Daily Mail are reporting that the new five and a half deal signed by Dimtri Payet this evening will keep his basic wages at £68,000 per week but add-ons will push his pay package over £100,000 per week at least for the first year of the new deal. Payet is understood to be receiving an add-on […]

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West Ham spent a total just under £86m in transfer fees assembling it’s current first team squad. Football website TransferMarkt.com who often Football website TransferMarkt.com says the current market value of the West Ham squad has increased to over £102m. Our completely Hammers biased valuation takes into account age of player, length of  remaining contract, […]

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