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Examining Liverpool’s rapid counter-attacks and contrasting Premier League playing styles with new Opta data…

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West Ham are set to have the entire squad fit for the clash with Huddersfield – although Marko Arnautovic will serve out the last game of his suspension. And that could see Slaven Bilic  put out the strongest West Ham team we have seen in months and months. ClaretandHugh has learned that both Winston Reid […]

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Andre Ayew could be missing from the Irons team which takes on Huddersfield next Monday night. The Ghana international’s run of poor form continued against the Congo in a World Cup qualifier last week – a performance that was widely condemned by supporters of his nation on Twitter. Ayew was taken off with 25 minutes […]

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Andy Carroll is  confidently predicted to be in the squad which meets Huddersfield Town on next Monday evening. And that is causing alarm bells to ring in Yorkshire where one local paper made a lead story of his likely return this morning. Carroll has now been missing for months with a recurring thigh injury but […]

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Nuno Almeida is a Lisbon-born blogger, a top ClaretandHugh Facebook Forum member and a passionate football man. A Sporting Clube de Portugal fan and member since the day he was born 🙂 he is also a huge fan of English football and West Ham. He’s been a Hammer since 1980, the day he watched the FA […]

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I’m talking about West Ham of course and specifically the the amount of fuel we seem to continuously donate to fuel the media’s fire. This first international week is supposed to provide meagre pickings for those who seek to fill the column inches and 24 hours news channels.  The qualifying break has just started which usually […]

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David Sullivan has tonight confirmed he intends to go ahead with legal action against Sporting Lisbon and their  director of communications, Nuno Saraiva, who claimed West Ham made no formal written offer to sign the midfielder William Carvalho. Saraiva also dubbed the Hammers co chairman a “parastite” and “liar” which Sullivan claims has left him […]

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West Ham United are tonight reported to be launching legal action against the Sporting Lisbon director who called David Sullivan a “liar” and a “parasite.” According to the Telegraph the club are contacting Nuno Saraiva, Sporting’s director of communications, who claimed they had not made a formal written offer to sign the midfielder William Carvalho. […]

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Nigel Kahn has been the most prominent public critic of the West Ham board for several years. And as the fans go into a furore over the situation at the club right now, CandH invited Nige to give his view on the state of things as he sees it. We are grateful he has interrupted his […]

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A recent freedom of the information requests shows the catering income for specific West Ham games last season. West Ham v Bournemouth Premier League match catering income £268,734 West Ham v Spurs Premier League match catering income £301, 489 West Ham v Arsenal Premier League match catering income £273,770 Based on these figures assuming a per match […]

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Arnautovic’s season with West Ham has got off to a nightmare start after the club record transfer signing was red-carded on his second appearance for elbowing Southampton’s Jack Stephens.  The initial transfer fee was £22.3m which could rise to £25m with add-ons. He earns a basic wage of £65,000 per week plus bonuses on a five-year […]

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ClaretandHugh’s View Remember Brexti? ….remember Trump? ….remember the UK election? remember the anger the spite the malice, the rage, the obscene posts on social media –  a place which doesn’t need a lot of help in that area ? We all do, but nobody can maintain that level of intensity whatever the issue, and it […]

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 Andre Ayew was unable to help Ghana to victory in the third round of the World Cup CAF qualifiers against Congo on Friday.  The Black Stars escaped a shock defeat at the hands of the visitors, as Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey salvaged a point for the West Africans with an 85th minute equalizer. The result […]

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The Sunday Express this morning claims that Rafa Benitez is being lined up to take over West Ham if Slaven Bilic fails to turn things around in September. Bilic had talks with Hammers co-owner Dave Sullivan after his side lost their opening three games and the Croatian rejected the chance to strengthen his squad with […]

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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has added to the pressure on Slaven Bilic by claiming the manager was not interested in the chance to sign Renato Sanches or Grzegorz Krychowiak.

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West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady has revealed that West Ham insists on a financial penalty if West Ham players on loan do not get plenty of first-team time. Speaking in the Sun newspaper Bardy said Loan spells are now an essential part of football saying Youth players on the fringes of first team football […]

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Son of West Ham Chairman Dave Sullivan Junior gave an interview the Sports Bible about West Ham. Asked whether he believed that Jack and himself would be the next chairmen of West Ham? “I personally think Jack is more likely to be the chairman of West Ham, however I would still like some input. Jack is currently […]

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It’s all got very serious so time for a bit of light relief and some fun. . . . . if we can’t laugh we’ll only end up crying. To see more of these West Ham animations go to @CanningTownLen on Twitter where you’ll be kept entertained and up to date albeit slightly satirically.  

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Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has given a great insight to transfer deadline day for a football manager after he allowed cameras from the Bleacher report to follow him around for the day.  Within the video, the truth is revealed why the Domingos Quina move collapsed. He explains a week earlier, the signings Jerome Sinclair, […]

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  Exclusive by Claret And Hugh Associate Editor, Sean Whetstone   West Ham Co-Chairman David Sullivan has tonight flatly denied claims from Sporting Lisbon that West Ham never made bids for the defensive midfielder for William Carvalho. Sullivan speaking only to ClaretandHugh a few minutes ago in response to provocative and controversial statements from the Sporting […]

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Sporting Lisbon’s director of communications Nuno Saraiva has hit out at West Ham co-owner David Sullivan after his official website statement and challenged him to prove his claims on William Carvalho. Speaking on Facebook Saraiva said: “Mr David Sullivan lies. Sporting Club de Portugal, as was said by its president, did not receive any proposal for […]

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Sky Sports claims that a medical can be completed after the 11pm transfer deadline day in direct contradiction in a statement released by the West Ham joint Chairman last night on the official website. In a Sky Sports Transfer Q&A Can a medical take place after 11pm (or midnight on Sept 1 in Spain)? Yes, a medical […]

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Unsurprisingly 14) Premier League clubs set new transfer records across while four broke it more than once. Here, Sportsmail looks at how each record was broken and those they replaced.

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Sporting’s president Bruno de Carvalho says he had not received a single concrete offer for their defensive midfielder William Carvalho. Bruno de Carvalho made a statement to press at an event to state that Sporting  Lisbon received no formal proposal for William Carvalho. “There was no single proposal for William Carvalho, we did not refuse an offer or anything, […]

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The Hammers are currently bottom of the Premier League, but the midfielder insists the England goalkeeper is not at fault

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Some West Ham players have taken advantage of the International Break to jet off with their families for the weekend.  Adrian posted a photo from the airport on his way back to Spain saying “Days off” and “Family time” However, Hammers players are only taking their contracted two days off per week and must return […]

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