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West Ham are tonight being reported as ready to make a move for  Olivier Giroud. The striker has made it clear recently he won’t settle for another year with such limited playing time” at the Emirates. He fell out of favour last season when Alexis Sanchez was often preferred through the middle, and Arsene Wenger went […]

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EXCLUSIVE Claret and Hugh has learned this afternoon that reports linking Bertrand Traore with the club are some way wide of the mark. We reported this morning that reports had emerged in the general media claiming that the club were looking seriously in the youngster direction. He enjoyed a great season with Ajax on loan […]

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Michy Bashuayi  is a wanted man but needs Chelsea to sign a new striker before he knows whether he will be on the move. With Diego Costa set to move on after being told he is no longer wanted Chelsea are now believed to be set to pay around £90 million for Romelu Lukaku. West […]

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Swindon Town are set to appoint former West Ham striker Teddy Sheringham as their new manager. BBC Radio 5 live’s senior football reporter, Ian Dennis, says Sheringham will be the replacement for Luke Williams, who resigned last month. Sheringham had a spell in charge of League Two Stevenage in 2015-16 but was sacked after 33 […]

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Anthony Modeste, who once had a horror spell on loan at Blackburn Rovers, has thrived in German football and this season has scored 25 goals in 33 games for FC Cologne. In 2015 he was allegedly offered by Hoffenheim to a number of Premier League sides which included West Ham for a mere £5m before moving to Cologne. […]

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West Ham’s strength in the left back position has been demonstrated again following Aaron Cresswell’s England call-up. Cressie may not have enjoyed the greatest season of his career but improved considerably towards its climax to ensure that England boss Gareth Southgate . He may well have had our back-up left back Arthur Masuaku to thank […]

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Over two-thirds of supporters who voted in Claret and Hugh’s Bank Holiday poll believe West Ham should cut their losses on Robert Snodgrass and sell him if an offer comes in this Summer. Almost two thousand fans voted in the poll with 1,341 (67.97%) saying we should sell him and recover as much money as possible. […]

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West Ham is interested in signing Juventus midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah, according to reports Italy. The 28-year-old, whose contract with Juve runs out in 2018, has made 23 appearances in all competitions for the Italian champions this season, creating two goals. Asamoah has been linked with a move away from Juventus this summer, with Turkish giants […]

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Welcome Pablo Zabaletta – Argentine right back, still a top defender and from all my Manchester mates tell me, a great bloke. Yeah of course there will be the moaners who reckon he’s coming to us too late and already I hear the “arriving at the end of his career” grumbles. Not many players get […]

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West Ham is on target to exceed an eighty percent renewal rate a source close to the club have told Claret and Hugh.  Premier League clubs work on an 80/20 rule where eighty percent of current season ticket holder renew each season. However, we have been told the club are on target to exceed this […]

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West Ham season ticket holders renewing for next season have agreed to updated terms and conditions which include a new clause in which the club could withdraw their season ticket if the holder does not attend seven or more Premier League matches. All season ticket holders are required to tick a box on renewal online […]

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As the football season has drawn to close, so the silly season, specifically the Twitter transfer rumour season has well and truly kicked off! In this new weekly column I will take a look at some of the more plausible and delightfully implausible transfer stories surrounding West Ham United. My aim is not question anyone’s credibility and as such I won’t use any Twitter names (with the notable exception of our own Board and family …

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has ruled out Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge as a summer transfer target. Despite learning that the Hammers are ready to consider any striker with a top six club on the fringes of the first team, Sturridge is not on the Irons wanted list. With Diafra Sakho and Andy […]

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Which goalkeeper made the best save in the Premier League this season?

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Chelsea romped to the title by winning more games in a single season than any side in Premier League history as Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull were relegated.

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Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez has won the Sky Sports Power Rankings this season.

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Adrian: No chance with the goal and next to nothing to do after that so average mark 5 Byram: Looking better and better game on game; stout defending and raided forward well 6 Fonte: Looked calm and composed. Vastly improved since early games 6 Collins: Couple of clumsy fouls and caught out of position early. […]

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André Ayew headed a second-half winner as West Ham United gatecrashed Burnley’s party by snatching a 2-1 victory at Turf Moor. Already assured of Premier League survival and their highest finish since 1975 the Clarets were in the mood to celebrate on the final day and Sam Vokes enlivened the atmosphere further by putting them ahead. Related: Peter Crouch heads Stoke to victory over wasteful Southampton Related: Vodafone pulls out of £20m naming-rights deal for

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Slaven Bilic can expect to be handed a new deal as early as December if he get the club away to the sort of start he enjoyed during his first season. There has never been a real appetite to part company with the manager and, as we reported earlier, he is set to lead the […]

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With the ongoing rumours that Jermain Defoe is set to make a return to the Hammers next season, here are 3 other players who left West Ham and returned Julian Dicks (1988 – 1993) & (1994 -1999) The current Assistant Manager was first signed by John Lyall for £300,000 in 1988 and after a slow start, he quickly established himself as a both a first-team regular and a fans favourite. A cultured left-back whose combative nature perhaps overshadowed…

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We have one game remaining in a season to forget rather than one to remember, and as the players prepare to get their suitcases packing for their extended holidays this summer, transfer movements are already in full swing. At the start of the season we were promised a 20-goal-a-season striker, and the owners failed to […]

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Pablo Zabaleta said his last farewells to the Manchester City fans who have handed him cult hero status over his time with the club last night and is now firmly believed to be on his way to the London Stadium. City gave him  special send off from the Etihad and even Status Quo’s Francis Rossi […]

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• Telecoms company abandons plans to sponsor the London Stadium • Breakdown of talks over terms of deal, not over HMRC investigation Vodafone has abandoned plans to sponsor the London Stadium in a £20m deal, dealing the latest blow to the venue’s troubled conversion to West Ham United’s home. The company was believed to be on the verge of a six-year deal to take on the naming rights, several years after the London Legacy Development Corporation, the publicly …

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Carol Combes -an admin on the ClaretandHugh Facebook group and website – isn’t one of our usual bloggers. But such was her anger at what she saw against Liverpool that she has been movcd to tell the squad exactly what she thinks of them! A message to the West Ham squad: As a long-standing West […]

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Havard Nortveidt looks set for a return to the Hammers midfield this afternoon with Mark Noble ruled out with injury (abdomen). And with Cheik Kouyate recovering from surgery on his wrist injury it’s another mix and match operation for the boss as he bids to extend two five-match unbeaten runs. The Hammers have gone five games […]

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