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West Ham have taken their summer spending past the £60million mark with the capture of Simone Zaza – the striker revealing he wants to emulate fellow Italian Paolo Di Canio’s exploits with the club.

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Manu Lanzi will definitely be part of the squad for tomorrow afternoon’s clash with Manchester City but there remain doubts surrounding Dimi Payet’s fitness. Lanzini may feature from the start but given the manager’s care with returning players more likely as a sub with Gokhan Tore possibly the one to be subbed or dropped depending […]

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Mark Noble is expected to be available for the clah at Manchester City tomorrow after saving himself the embarrassment of being a part of the horrible midweek defeat by Astra. And Arthur Masuaku will take over from Reece Burke at left back after being Cup tied for the Europa Cup clash. Manager Slaven Bilic indicated […]

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So the Hammers here dumped out of Europe by a Romanian outfit beaten 5-1 at the weekend. It will be remembered as one of our worst defeats. The ClaretandHugh Facebook forum @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ has been red hot – here’s some random responses O Mr Sullivan’s cheap options and false promises have come home to roost tonight. […]

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Fair play to Slaven Bilic for remaining true to himself after the game and refusing to find excuses and get involved in the blame game. Slav doesn’t do scapegoating nor does he need telling by anybody that last night’s performance wasn’t acceptable or find easy targets to blame. The guy is big enough to take […]

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  “We created the sort of chances we had to score, but it wasn’t that we missed chances, it was that we didn’t play good.” “I’m angry and frustrated but I’m much more disappointed than anything else because we wanted to go through “I am not going to lose faith in the players after one […]

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The Premier League Hammers were humiliated in front of their own fans on Thursday evening, as the unheralded visitors produced a quite stunning Europa League upset

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West Ham have agreed a £5.5million fee with FC Sion for midfielder Edimilson Fernandes. The 20-year-old Fernandes was labelled ‘unsellable’ earlier this year by the Sion president.

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Slaven Bilic has confirmed that both Juventus’ Simon Zaza and Wilfried Bony are targets for the Irons. Speaking ahead of tomorrow night’s Europa Cup clash at a morning presser the manager said of the Zaza interest: “We were linked with him (Zaza) last year and he is a top player. We were in contact with […]

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David Sullivan has undergone heart surgery and remains in hospital this evening. David Sullivan junior confirmed his father’s situation by tweeting “Dad’s just had heart surgery woke up from operation and is straight back on the phone to sign more players” posting a photo of his dad on the phone in his hospital bed.  Jack […]

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Juventus want £25 million for Simone Zaza but West Ham are reluctant to do a permanent deal for the Italy international. The Hammers have been lined with the player by his father who is quoted in the national media tonight as saying: ‘West Ham are a solution we’d appreciate and represent something more concrete. ‘We’ll have […]

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Michail Antonio scored the first Premier League goal at the London Stadium on Sunday to secure a 1-0 win over Bournemouth and collect the Hammers’ first three points of the campaign.

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West Ham Chairman, David Gold has waded into the London Stadium standing debate on social media this morning. Speaking on via his twitter account to his 152,000 followers Gold explained. “There are thousands of standing fans home and away too many for the stewards to cope with. dg” “So the stewards concentrate on standing fans […]

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Michail Antonio sealed three points for the hosts close to the end, but the Cherries’ manager believes that his side were in control playing 11 against 11

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Michail Antonio headed in a winning goal in the last 10 minutes following Harry Arter’s sending off to give West Ham a win and three points in their first Premier League game at the Olympic Stadium.

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West Ham are weighing up whether to make an emergency move to cover the injury to Andre Ayew or rely on a renewed Diafra Sakho to return fully fit and motivated after the international break. The Hammers injury crisis is worse than any other Premier League side and the board know they may be forced […]

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A late equaliser from Denis Alibec saw West Ham held to a 1-1 draw by Astra Giurgiu in their Europa League qualifying play-off first-leg tie.

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The press statement by published by West Ham this evening confirms our worst fears. The Safety Advisory Group (SAG) have refused to re-issue a safety certificate for a 60,000 capacity for the London Stadium. This means Sunday’s game against Bournemouth, the Europa League game next week against Astra and most likely the Premier League game […]

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New signing Artur Masuaku made a big impression on his first outing in an Irons shirt against Chelsea and fterwards showed some serious realism declaring: “Wewe must move on now.” The £6 million signing believe the game was in the team’s hands until that second goal but believes the team will carry on working hard. […]

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Slaven Bilic’s insistence  that Michail Antonio is a full back  is now causing acute  anxiety among fans and Hammers insiders that the player may be suffering a confidence crisis. It has been the one issue that thus far has caused a shadow over the manager’s reign and we are now in a position where we […]

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Follow all the action as Chelsea host London rivals West Ham at Stamford Bridge. AMITAI WINEHOUSE brings you all the action as Antonio Conte looks to get off to the perfect start.

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This evening we will be officilly launching our partnership with Zebra metrics to rate the players after each match. CandH has have been chosen by developers Zebrametrics as their exclusive West Ham partner. A plug in will allow you to have your say, rating players, the manager and the ref after each and every Premier […]

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West Ham are today reported as being keen to sign Hadjuk Split teenager Josip Magnajic The 17-year-old  made his first team debut in May as he came off the bench to face NK Zagreb and is viewed as a top-future Croatian international prospect, having appeared eight times for the under-17 side. Boss Slaven Bilic is hoping […]

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David Gold has made clear the true depth of his feeling for West Ham after a fan on Twitter thanked him for risking his personal wealth for the sake of the club. Gold has previously told ClaretandHugh that after selling up at Birmingham City he and David Sullivan looked at various clubs ahead of their […]

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The Spain international can torment defences this season if he concentrates on penalty box prowess, says the Blues boss

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Manu Lanzini is targeting the match against Watford on September 10 for his return to the squad. The Argentine playmaker is making good progress from the knee injury he suffered prior to the Rio Olympics and hopes to be back for the clash at the London Stadium. Optimisic Manu is making decent progress and is […]

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