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• West Ham playmaker is fit to face Liverpool after knee injury • Manuel Lanzini to make move from Al-Jazira permanent in spring Dimitri Payet, whom Slaven Bilic likened to Arsenal’s Mesut Özil, is fit for Saturday’s game against Liverpool at Upton Park. Whether the West Ham playmaker will start is dependent on how he performs in training but his rapid recovery from the knee injury he sustained in November means he will almost certainly make the squad. Payet was instrumental …

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• ‘Is he in contention to start? Yes. He is back,’ says Slaven Bilic • Victor Moses and Winston Reid training but unlikely to feature in game The West Ham manager, Slaven Bilic, is weighing up whether to throw Dimitri Payet straight in against Liverpool despite the midfielder being a month ahead of schedule in his fitness battle. The French playmaker Payet, one of the stars of West Ham’s impressive start to the season, was expected to …

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In the moments when Southampton were threatening to leave severe and lasting damage on West Ham United and the boos were ringing out around Upton Park, Slaven Bilic could have been forgiven if he had retreated into his shell. The visitors, buzzing after thrashing Arsenal on Boxing Day, created enough chances to win several matches and Ronald Koeman cannot have imagined that he would end up sighing that football is 90 or 95 minutes” after the quality of his …

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• Co-chairman says Benítez had agreed contract before Real Madrid came in • West Ham to make Manuel Lanzini’s loan deal permanent two months early David Sullivan has revealed that Rafael Benítez had agreed a deal to become West Ham United’s manager in the summer before Real Madrid stepped in at the 11th hour. Related: Premier League fans’ half-time verdict part 2: Newcastle to West Ham Related: Liverpool must give Jürgen…

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Jury is out at Newcastle and Southampton, it’s been a bit of a slog at Norwich and West Brom, Sam may be the right man for Sunderland, Tottenham have added steel to style, and there is cheer at Watford, West Ham and Stoke Read part one: Arsenal to Manchester United The malaise of the John Carver era has sadly carried over into this season: we seem to have a team that contains some genuine…

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Jordan Ayew rescued a point for battling Aston Villa as they were held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham. Rémi Garde is still searching for his first win as the Villa manager despite coming from behind to close the gap to safety. Aaron Cresswell ended the Hammers’ goal drought with their first strike in 388 minutes but Ayew’s second-half penalty levelled. Related: Hiddink gets taste of his Chelsea task after

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Aston Villa manager Rémi Garde looks ahead to his relegation-threatened team’s upcoming away game against West Ham United. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Garde believes the bottom side need at least 36 points to beat the drop from the Premier League Continue reading…

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Goals seem as hard to come by as managers in this part of south Wales at the moment. Yet to appoint a replacement for Garry Monk and with only one win from their last 13 league matches, Swansea’s frustration continues on and off the pitch after a result that ensures they will spend Christmas Day in the relegation zone. Swansea controlled the game for long periods against a West Ham side …

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West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic looks ahead to their Premier League match against Stoke City at Upton Park on Saturday. Bilic says it is easy for a team to play badly at home. He praises Stoke City’s skills in attack and counter attack West Ham’s Winston Reid and Victor Moses out until new year with injuries Continue reading…

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• Argentinian midfielder suffered quadriceps injury in training • Victor Moses awaiting results from scan on injured hamstring West Ham have confirmed Manuel Lanzini will be out for up to six weeks with a thigh injury he suffered in training. The Argentinian midfielder, who is on a season’s loan from UAE-based Al-Jazira, pulled out of the squad who drew 0-0 at Manchester United after suffering the injury to his quadriceps. West Ham hoped he would be available for Saturday’s…

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Another 0-0 draw at Old Trafford has left the United manager unconvinced of a positive result when his misfiring side face Wolfsburg in Champions League A manager with a famous philosophy was sounding unusually philosophical. “I’m not God,” said Louis van Gaal in a rare instance of him accepting there are limits to his powers. “I cannot predict.” The Manchester United manager had been asked if Tuesday’s game in Wolfsburg could bring a catalytic result. Related: …

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• Slaven Bilic urges Carroll to ‘show it from the start’ • Diafra Sakho to undergo thigh surgery and out for three months Slaven Bilic has urged Andy Carroll to “show it from the start” following the striker’s recent impressive substitute appearances for West Ham United. With Diafra Sakho, Dimitri Payet and Enner Valencia injured, Carroll is likely to start on Saturday at Manchester United. Bilic said: “He is getting back towards his best, he is trying hard in training and he …

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• West Ham manager respects Louis van Gaal’s patient football • United ‘quicker and more electric’ under Sir Alex Ferguson Slaven Bilic has rejected suggestions Manchester United are boring. “They’re different from the Alex Ferguson era where they were quicker, more electric and bombarding the box,” said Bilic, whose West Ham side visit Old Trafford on Saturday. But he denied that made Louis van Gaal’s team dull and pointed to the effectiveness of…

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• Club expect to learn full extent of ‘significant injury’ to Diafra Sakho • West Ham hopeful Enner Valencia will return before new year West Ham United should find out on Thursday the full extent of Diafra Sakho’s “significant injury” while his fellow forward Enner Valencia could be back in action before the end of the year. Sakho suffered a thigh injury during the 1-1 draw against West Bromwich Albion on Sunday, and early reports suggested he would be sidelined …

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Slaven Bilic gives his reaction after West Ham United drew 1-1 with West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League at Upton Park on Sunday. Bilic says West Bromwich Albion deserved some reward for their second half performance, but says his team should have been more than 1-0 up in the first half West Brom fight back to win hard-earned point at West Ham Continue reading…

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Rickie Lambert’s career seemed to be petering out at West Bromwich Albion but the 33-year-old proved that there is life in him yet, as he came off the bench at Upton Park to revive his team and help salvage a point that had looked improbable. The 33-year-old has started only three Premier League games for Albion since tearing himself away from Liverpool in the summer in search of more action and, as with every game since…

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Football grounds reflect the soul of the community and their disappearance from historic locations across the country strikes at the heart of the game • Football stadiums, then and now: interactive quiz (part 1) • Football stadiums, then and now: interactive quiz (part 2) Moss Side, on a dank, inhospitable November’s morning. On Blue Moon Way, mums and dads are on the school run outside Divine Mercy Primary. The house …

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• A 35-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen • Taken to east London hospital where condition is stable A 35-year-old West Ham fan was stabbed outside White Hart Lane before Tottenham’s Premier League match with West Ham on Sunday. Related: Tottenham’s two-goal Harry Kane leads way in 4-1 rout of West Ham Continue reading…

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Predictions have been pretty pointless so far in this topsy-turvy Premier League season but much more of this and people are going to start backing Tottenham Hotspur for a Champions League finish. After the encouragement of the performance, if not entirely the result, in the 1-1 draw at Arsenal before the international break they swatted aside a West Ham team who have made a habit of rousing themselves for the big away games. Related: …

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Latest updates as Spurs take on West Ham at White Hart Lane Manuel Lanzini: the bargain of the season? Email nick.ames.casual@theguardian.com | Tweet: @NickAmes82 4.28pm GMT West Ham not been behind before in one of these tough away games this season. Changes the way they want to play. Truth. 4.27pm GMT 28 min: Vertonghen lashes an excitable 30-yarder over with his left foot. 4.26pm GMT 25 min: West Ham almost equalise straightaway! A superb overhead kick from Kouyate strikes the bar…

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• Bilic laments loss of ‘best player’ Dimitri Payet • Diafro Sakho is back but Enner Valencia out Slaven Bilic has called on his players to “step up and do more” when West Ham travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday in the absence of the key midfielder Dimitri Payet . The fixture has particular significance for Bilic, being the one in which he made his debut for the club as a player in February 1996. On that occasion West Ham won 1-0, and …

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• Argentine is on a season-long loan from United Arab Emirates side Al Jazira • Co-chairman Sullivan says ‘any other team’s interest is irrelevant’ The West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan has warned off rival clubs interested in signing their rising star Manuel Lanzini. The Argentinian midfielder is reportedly a target for Liverpool after his impressive start to life in the Premier League. Lanzini has scored four goals so far …

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• France midfielder was substituted in 1-1 draw with Everton on Saturday • Payet has scored five goals in 14 appearances since joining from Marseille West Ham have been dealt a huge blow with the news that Dimitri Payet may be ruled out for three months. The French midfielder has been a major factor in West Ham’s fine start to the season after his £10.7m summer move from Marseille but Payet, who has scored five goals in 14 appearances, suffered an ankle …

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As Watford set about remodelling their squad in the summer it was decided that Odion Ighalo might be surplus to requirements and only the player’s refusal to leave stalled a move to the Chinese side Hebei China Fortune. Despite his 20 league goals last season he started their opening game on the bench. Since then however he has become perhaps the league’s most influential attacking player. Not since that day have they fashioned a goal that he has not either scored or…

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• Mourinho could be banned from dugout against Liverpool • Coach Silvino Louro also charged, and Chelsea for failing to control players José Mourinho has been left fretting over whether he will be permitted in the home dugout against Liverpool on Saturday after the Football Association charged the Chelsea manager with misconduct following his dismissal at Upton Park . Mourinho, who is already appealing against a £50,000 fine and suspended one-match stadium ban for suggesting …

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West Ham deserved to win. It is worth highlighting that fact lest it be obscured by the fallout to Chelsea’s disciplinary meltdown. The champions had Nemanja Matic sent off in the first half, two players booked for protesting against that decision, their assistant first-team coach, Silvino Louro, dismissed for haranguing the fourth official and José Mourinho banished to the stands at half-time. Continue reading…

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