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The Gunners can technically still finish in the top four of the English top flight, but Europe remains the most realistic path back to the UCL

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Recruitment experts are searching for a new head of player recruitment at West Ham as the club concludes a root and branch review of their scouting network.

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Yesterday Claret and Hugh replicated an official Everton supporter survey to ask the same questions in a West Ham context. Six hundred Hammers supporters filled in the survey ranking the club between 1-10 on four areas including the loyalty of players, trust in the West Ham board, the loyalty of fellow fans and trust in […]

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West Ham United are this morning alleged to have abandoned plans to appoint a director of football with the club after David Moyes made it clear he wanted overall control of recruitment issues. The Times, sadly like its sister paper The Sun  occasionally prone to misinformation – starts by reporting what we already know – […]

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West Ham look set to miss out on Jack Wilshere should the midfielder make his long expected exit from the Gooners this season. Wolves, who have gained a massive reputation for playing as much pure passing football as possible, are today being reported as being ready to move in on the player. The Hammers have […]

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Manchester United’s Luke Shaw could become a Hammers transfer target  given his near certain departure from Old Trafford this summer. Although his contact ends in June, the club hold a year’s option on him and are likely to hold out for a fee of around £12 million. The former Southampton star has had a woeful […]

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The Hammers are this morning being reported as tracking the highly promising 19 year old Derby County youngster Luke Thomas. The teenager has been outstanding in the outfit which beat the Irons under 23s 1-0 in their last game and has been catching their eye for some time. The youngster  has been in great form […]

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Manu Lanzini has been named as the most likely to leave the Hammers this summer . Bookmakers Ladbrokes have revealed their favourities to be on the way from every Premier League club and the Argentine playmaker is right at the top of the Hammers pile. There are of course other far more likely departures from […]

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Hughie and Mike Manera of ‘Mike on Monday’ fame with the categories that really count as the gongs season comes around Ok, it’s that time of the year again when the achievement awaeds are handed out although there’s probably only two players who are genuinely in the picture for the club’s official awards. Marko Arnautovic […]

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Domingos Quina is fast emerging as a target for AC Milan and continues to hold out on signing a new deal with the Irons. The 19 year midfielder is also fancied by Ajax and could be on his way at the end of the season after failing to make the breakthrough into our first team. […]

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West Ham Season ticket holder Sami Sidhom was murdered outside his home in Forest Gate when four men leapt from two cars to attack him and left him bleeding in the street. The 18-year-old was returning from the Hammers match against Stoke when he was ambushed at 10.50pm on Monday night. He was treated by residents […]

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Everton have launched a supporters survey asking whether Toffee fans have high level of trust in their players being loyal and performing at their best for the club, trust in their senior leadership team in making the right decisions for the clubs future, trust in other fans in being loyal and being committed to the club […]

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Four years is a long time in football. And West Ham youngster Declan Rice has showed just how much can change in a short period of time with his latest tweet on Wednesday.

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Andy Carroll remains unconvinced that the Hammers are now safe from relegation. Having marked his return with a valuable goal the striker has made it clear that there remains a lot to do if we are to see Premier League football at the London Stadium next season. He told the official site: “I think we’re still […]

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    By Allen Cummings     It’s 100 per cent correct that the Hammers should be looking at signing a new goalkeeper (or two) but the bigger and less easily solved question is WHO? Enough has been said of Joe Hart – he’s on his way back to Manchester with I suggest a bleakish […]

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Oh my, big Sam will be pleased at the latest move by the Everton board! In what some will consider a great idea and others dismiss as a gimmick, they have send a survey to the fans asking them to rate his performance this season. Despite lying in a handy league position many Toffees supporters […]

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Aaron Cresswell may just have been a tad over-excited in his assessment of Andy Carroll. Normally I have no problem with players becoming as enthusiastic as they like over a team-mate’s performance but it always seems to end one way when the name is Carroll. Here we go again – he’s a weapon, he’s different […]

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Hammer Aaron Cresswell leads the Premier League table for the defender with the most assists this season.  His return of seven assists from 32 League appearances this season is an impressive step up from the two assists he delivered last season and an all-time high of four per season since joining as a Hammer. Cresswell […]

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West Ham manager David Moyes has received a vote of confidence from supporters to carry on the job he started last November. A Claret and Hugh poll of 1,390 fans today showed the majority of 62% (862) believes Moyes should be offered a new contract in the Summer with the remaining 38% (528) saying he […]

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David Moyes has left a question mark over Manu Lanzii starting at Arsenal on Sunday admitting he’s not sure the midfielder is “quite there” in terms of fitness. The manager has some critical decisions to make as he bids to collect something from the game at the Emirates with most believing a couple of more […]

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Gary Neville appeared to have little time for the Hammers in his post match inquest into the Stoke City clash at the London Stadium. Indeed his lack of attention to anything we managed to do during the game was almost embarrassing for somebody who claims to be a professional broadcaster. He reserved most of his […]

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Hammers striker Andy Carroll proved last night he has still got what it takes when fit. He came on to save West Ham a point and more importantly deny Stoke two points after coming on as a late sub in the closing minutes of the game. Carroll scored within six minutes of coming on and […]

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Andy Carroll’s blazing cameo performance and fine goal against Stoke has raised hopes that he could leave the Hammers in a win/win situation as he enters the last year of his contract. Should he maintain the sort of form and fitness on display in last night’s game clubs may see him as a decently priced […]

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West Ham manager David Moyes stunned the post-match media pack into silence by suggesting last night’s draw against Stoke was one of the better performances by West Ham under him as manager. Moyes told reporters “I think the important thing was to make sure we didn’t lose tonight and I thought the commitment from the players, […]

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Mark Noble admits that he was boosted to see Andy Carroll run onto the pitch last night admitting his presence on the field of play is major! The skipper – relieved to grab a point from last night’s game va Carroll’s great shot – said: “You put that ball in the box and there’s every chance […]

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Joe Hart’s place in England’s World Cup squad has fallen under intense scrutiny after an error against Stoke in West Ham’s 1-1 draw at the London Stadium on Monday night.

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