Sofiane Feghouli is understood to have become one of the highest paid Hammers after joining the club on a free transfer earlier in the month. The Paris-born wideman signed a deal worth between £60k and £65k a week plus add ons to join the club after leaving Valencia on a free transfer. He explained at […]
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Feghouli on mega deal
Posted on 22 June 2016.
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West Ham linked with £15m bid for Italian striker
Posted on 22 June 2016.
Sky Sports and Guardian journalist, Fabrizio Romano claims West Ham are preparing a £15m bid for Italian Striker Simone Zaza in today’s Guardian Newspaper. Romano writes: “West Ham United are preparing a bid for the Juventus and Italy striker Simone Zaza, believed to be in the region of €20m (£15m). The Premier League club face stiff […]
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Oxford linked with Bundesliga
Posted on 22 June 2016.
Sky Sports claims Reece Oxford has been offered a £20,000-a-week contract by Bundesliga club Red Bull Leipzig. They claim the newly-promoted German side are the latest club to attempt to lure the highly-rated 17-year-old away from the Hammers. Leipzig are preparing for their first season in the top flight of German football after finishing second in […]
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Batshuayi update
Posted on 22 June 2016.
The Daily Express are reporting that Michy Batshuayi is close to West Ham deal. They claim “According to French outlet Buzzsport, the Ligue 1 side want as much as £30.8m for their 17-goal striker and while Spurs are unwilling to go that high, West Ham are said to be on the verge of completing a deal.” Only […]
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PayetExit Poll – The results are in
Posted on 22 June 2016.
On the eve of the BREXIT referendum we reveal Claret and Hugh’s results to our PayetExit poll. With over 1,300 voting in the poll which makes it statistically accurate from a polling perspective we can reveal the vast majority of West Ham supporters believe Dimitri Payet will REMAIN a Hammer after the summer transfer window […]
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Former Hammer joins Barnsley
Posted on 22 June 2016.
Championship side Barnsley have signed former Hammer George Moncur for a transfer fee of £500,000 according to BBC Essex. Moncur scored 14 goals in 51 games for the Colchester last season, but could not help them avoid relegation from League One. The 22-year-old had also held talks with Peterborough, where personal terms had been verbally agreed, […]
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PIC: One last Boleyn journey …for a seat!
Posted on 22 June 2016.
One or two Hammers fans are pictured collecting their seatss from the Boleyn. And as they did so they took a last lingering look at the old ground after making the emotional journey back to Green Street to collect the seat they used to watch so many games. Claret and and Hugh Facebook Group member and […]
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Hammers fans rush to snap up Summer Annual
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Our partners Blowing Bubbles Magazine have produced a magnificent 132-page monster Summer Annual that has been a huge hit with the West Ham family. Following on from the huge success of the monthly magazine’s commemorative Farewell Boleyn, this is a must read for all West Ham fans this summer to fend off the post-season blues! […]
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Meet the man behind Dimitri Payet
Posted on 21 June 2016.
This mystery Frenchman is Dimitri Payet’s agent. His name is Jacques-Olivier Auguste. The football agent from the Vosges mountain region of France first met Payet in 2007 while he played for Nantes. When Nantes were relegated in 2007, Payet was persuaded to hand in a transfer request and Auguste arranged a £3m transfer to St Etienne on a […]
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Hammers continue 30 year striker search
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Alexander Lacazette’s decision not to join the Hammers is a big blow but hopes remain high that we will find the man we need. It really is time we found such a player and it’s a chastening thought that we haven’t unearthed one since 85-86 when Frank McAvennie and Tony Cottee were wearing the claret […]
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Hammer joins Blackburn Rovers
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Hammer Stephen Hendrie has joined Blackburn Rovers on loan for the 2016/2017 season. We ran the news on Sunday giving it a 8/10 rumour rating but the news was made official today. After completing his move to East Lancashire today, Hendrie told the Rovers official website: “I’m absolutely delighted to put pen to paper, Obviously it’s […]
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Eamonn Dolan 1967-2016
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Reading academy boss and former Hammer Eamonn Dolan has died at the age of 48 after losing a battle with cancer. Dolan underwent chemotherapy last year following an operation to remove a tumour from his bladder. The former West Ham striker came through the Club’s Academy and went onto make 21 first team appearances between […]
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West Ham player denies Ibe link
Posted on 21 June 2016.
This morning, the Liverpool Echo claimed to have solved the mystery of Liverpool player Jordon Ibe photographed in a West Ham shirt which went viral on the internet on Monday. The Echo claimed this morning “The ECHO understands that the photos are genuine but it wasn’t a sign that Ibe is about to join Slaven Bilic’s men was […]
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Payet in Real Madrid talks – Irons respond
Posted on 21 June 2016.
West Ham have quickly rubbished suggestions that Real Mardid representatives have met with Dimi Payet’s agent. A jounalist @EmaGiulianelli claimed on Twitter that the meeting took place in London yesterday (Tuesday). Giulianelli describes himself thu on Twitter as a football writer and journalist. Tribal Football columnist, cooperate with FIFA Weekly, Panenka, FourFourTwo, La Gazzetta dello […]
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Lacazette says “No” to us – fans react
Posted on 21 June 2016.
ClaretandHugh was the first site to break the news today that the chase for Alexandre Lacazette is dead. We were told by a senior insider that he has made it 100 perc cent clear through his agent that he has no interest in joining us. Here’s how CandH Facebook Forum members at https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ reacted to the […]
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Lacazette deal off confirmed
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Sources close to Lacazette’s agents have confirmed our story this morning that any Lacazette deal is off as the player has no interest in joining either West Ham or Spurs. Football website HITC Sport has followed ClaretandHugh by reporting that any move to the Olympic Stadium is a non starter. We reported our own sources as […]
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PayetExit Poll: Will Payet Remain or Leave?
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Former Hammer Harry Redknapp believes Dimitri Payet will remain a Hammer after the Summer while bookies and commentators believe he will off if a large offer comes in from a Champions league club during the summer transfer window. On the same week of the BREXIT referendum being held on Thursday we also ask a very […]
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Harry: “Payet will want to stay”
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Former West Ham manager, Harry Redknapp believes West Ham will hold on to Dimtri Payet this summer insisting he will want to stay. Speaking to betting site Betsafe Harry said: “I don’t think they’d sell him. West Ham have a new stadium, 60,000 stadium, Olympic Stadium, sold 50-odd thousand season tickets, David Sullivan, David Gold, they […]
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OS Founders walls will be available to all
Posted on 21 June 2016.
The Olympic Stadium Founders Wall will actually be a series of walls around the stadium in the common concourse areas in the transformed stadium. Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge revealed an image last Thursday saying “Walls inside the concourse with every name of every season ticket holder, our founders, is featured…” A source close to stadium transformation […]
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Slav tells it as it is – “Don’t praise England!”
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Once again Slav nails it! Whilst dreary pundits blah blah on about how impressive England are and how many great options they appear to have, our West Ham boss tells the unvarnished truth. Here’s what he has to say against our performance against Slovakia and includes an overview of the realities of the group. He […]
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Bilic raves about England’s defender!
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Slaven Bilic lavished so much praise on Chris Smalling after the England v Slovakia, he started a few conspiracy theories running. The Hammers boss is known to be in the market for a central deender but Smalling – Manchester United’s England man? Hmm. Following the game he said: “Smalling’s great on the ball, can pass […]
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CANDH EXCLUSIVE: Lacazette makes up his mind
Posted on 21 June 2016.
West Ham have been told that Alexandre Lacazette has no desire to join West Ham United. Amid widespread rumours of another bid going in – with one or two sites claiming it would be of £37 million – ClaretandHugh has been told categoically this morning: “That is not going to happen.” Our top insider revealed: […]
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Sounders and States so close
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Unbelievably we are just 15 days away from our first game of the season – in America. We have become so preoccipied with Euro 2016 that the trip to the States has slipped almost out of our minds. But here’s a great image of the stadium – built 20 years ago – awaiting to welcome […]
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Resting reid revels in Dimi
Posted on 21 June 2016.
Winston Reid has sent his biggest congratulations to Dimi Payet from Mexico! The central defender said on the official site: “I saw the opening game and he was really, really good and came up with a brilliant goal at the end. “I didn’t see the second game, but I heard he got another goal and played […]
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Payet believes he should have buried volley
Posted on 20 June 2016.
Dimitri Payet believes he should have buried his volley for France against Switzerland in their goalless draw at Euro 2016.
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Video: French fans get Dimi message
Posted on 20 June 2016.
France fans singing “We’ve got Payet” ahead of tonight’s group finale against Switzerland: pic.twitter.com/q2J5aJClx7 — West Ham News (@WHUFC_News) June 19, 2016 It’s taken a while but the French have finally caught up. With Dimi Payet the talk of the country and Europe, the fans have finally started singing the song created by Hammers […]
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