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Blowing Bubbles Magazine are offering readers of this site a brilliant subscription offer as they gear up for their – and West Ham’s – biggest season to date. Following on from the huge success of their commemorative Farewell Boleyn issue and Summer Annual, the monthly magazine is giving people the chance to subscribe to have

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Sports Direct appear to have jumped the gun by selling the new West Ham  2016/2017 home shirt a full twenty fours before a big launch by the club at the new club store in Stratford. West Ham fan, Cameron Green from Southend posted images on twitter this afternoon showing Sports Direct selling the home shirt […]

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ClaretandHugh’s Scott Alsweiller blogs from America after a night of high emotion in Carolina as he watched his beloved Hammers  for the first time in years and and tells how a very little sick boy was serenaded by his ClaretandBlue Family. Lightning flashed, thunder crashed, but the Hammers kept singing on. Under sultry skies, and […]

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The Jonathan Calleri loan rumours have all the hallmarks of a typical David Sullivan deal. We know Mr Sullivan likes a South American player as they are cheaper in terms of wages and transfer fees when compared to their European counterparts. I could see a similar deal  to the one that bought Manuel Lanzini to West […]

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Dimitri Payet has told the Sun newspaper: “I’ve heard about all the interest and I’m flattered. But I love West Ham. We had a fantastic season and I can’t wait to play in the Olympic Stadium. I’m 100 per cent staying at West Ham, I love the club. I can tell the Hammers fans that.” The statistics […]

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West Brom are set to move in on Diafra Sakho as Sunderland hesitate on making a new offer while Sam Allardyce is involved in talks to become the new England boss. The Black Cats have lodged one “totally unacceptable bid” with West Ham which amounted to £8 million up front and staged payments up to […]

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Carlos Bacca could leave West Ham waiting until Monday for a decision, as he continues to consider an offer from Atletico Madrid reports in Italy claim. West Ham and AC Milan have agreed a €30m (£25.3m) transfer fee and his agent met with Irons chiefs in London earlier this week to Hammer out a deal. […]

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A thunderstorm temporarily halted West Ham’s final game of their United States tour as the Hammers drew 2-2 against Carolina Railhawks.

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The Irons clash against Carolina RailHawks kicks off at 1 am GMT tomorrow morning (Wed) with the lads needing to bury memories of the 3-0 defeat by Seattle Sounders.’ And ahead of the game manager Slaven Bilic said: ““We are looking forward to the game and we think it’s going to be quite a competitive one […]

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West Ham United’s players took time out from their pre-season tour of America to visit one of the club’s youngest fans in a Carolina hospital. Joel Window was born with a severe heart defect.

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West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan says Dimitri Payet is worth £100m, but the France star is “not for sale”.

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West Ham have signed Turkey winger Gokhan Tore on a year-long loan from Besiktas.

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David Gold appears to have given the game away over Michail Antonio’s future suggesting strongly that he will again be at right back when the season starts. Many of course are going to be vert unhappy to hear it but the co chairman has made it clear where the manager sees the former Nottingham Forest […]

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Stadium owners, E20 LLP face massive financial penalties if the former Olympic Stadium is not ready by Thursday 4th August for West Ham’s first Europa league match. The £20m retractable seating has been dogged by problems since Alto Seating went into administration last year and the seating has never properly worked as designed. ClaretandHugh understand that […]

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Andy Carroll continues to head the wages list at West Ham despite Dimi Payet’s much hyped £125k  a week deal. And that will remain the case even should Carlos Bacca arrive with the same sort of deal as the fabulous French midfielder who we understand is on a basic of £67k. Bacca wants to match […]

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Next Sunday will see the re-opening of the former Olympic Stadium when the Great Newham takes place which culminates on the running track inside the stadium.   The London Stadium will open their doors at 8.45am on Sunday to runners and spectators. The 10K run starts in waves at 09.30am with 2K family run starting […]

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We’ve heard his name 100 times or more and he’s been rumoured to be joing us ever since Slaven Bilic mentioned that he was a great admirer. Now, today it’s finally been anounced officially – some time behind most of us – that Beskitas winger Gokhan Tore has signed for the Irons on lon with […]

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Slaven Bilic has sent an assurance that after swapping texts with Dimi Payet the club’s maestro midfielder is “happy – our player.” Speaking to the Daily Mail he said: “As a club manager, when you have a player involved there is added interest and there is no doubt Dimitri Payet has been one of the stars […]

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West Ham have tonight revealed the club is attempting to put the final touches to a year-long loan deal for Gokhan Tore. A highly placed source told ClaretandHugh earlier today that the club is hopeful of getting the deal across the line within the next couple of days and speaking to us again a few […]

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Crystal Palace expect to complete a deal to sign James Tomkins within the next 24 hours, according to Sky sources.

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Belgian international striker and former West Ham striker target Michy Batshuayi has confirmed he is leaving Marseille. Marseille had requested their 22-year-old top scorer from last season keep quiet on his move to Chelsea had been completely hammered out between the two clubs. “It will be made official tomorrow, I will be leaving Olympique Marseille […]

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Reece Burke has learned this morning there are no plans to send him out on another loan spell. ClaretandHugh was told this morning that the young central defender is seen as an important player who is likely to get his chance to impress this term. And we were told by a well placed insider: “The window […]

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James Tomkins was this morning edging closer to a cross London move which will see him join Alan Pardew’s Crystal Palace. The Mail reported last night that a fee of £12.5 million is involved but ClaretandHugh understands that would include numeous clauses and that the basic fee is closer to £10 million. The clauses would […]

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West Ham defender Kyle Knoyle has joined Wigan Athletic on loan for the 2016-17 season.  The 19-year-old has joined up with his Latics team mates as they prepare for next week’s training camp in Portugal. Knoyle spent the latter part of the 2015-16 campaign on loan in the Scottish Premiership with Dundee United having made […]

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David Gold has already given Claret and Hugh a full interview on why he believes Slaven Bilic would refuse any chance of becoming England manager. And it was a piece picked up by The Mirror, Sky Sports News, the BBC and Mail among many other media outlets which was great because the message went out […]

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Football agent Tony Harris has dismissed rumours linking his client, Ahmed Musa with a move to West Ham. The agent said “I was frankly surprised by this rumour. Yes, he’s coming to England but Musa’s not joining West Ham.” Earlier reports in Nigeria claimed  West Ham have beaten the English Premiership duo of Leicester City […]

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