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Gary Neville has joined the queue of pundits lining up to tell Mike Dean how badly wrong he was to send off West Ham’s Sofiane Feghouli. Neville told Sky Sports: “The strange thing was, looking at the replay a couple of times since, I’m not sure why Mike Dean looks behind him – as if play […]

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French newspaper L’Equipe reports that Marseille’s new owners are willing to spend up to 40 million euros on bringing back Dimi Payet back. The story has made the front page of the French publication this morning. Marseille’s current coach Rudi Garcia managed Payet during their time in Lille together and Marseille need a left-sided attacker. However, […]

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Cheik Kouyate has been given permission to delay joining his Senegalese training camp in Morocco and will now will available for tomorrow’s London Stadium home clash against Manchester United. Like Andre Ayew, West Ham made a formal request to delay his travel to the AFCON training until 3rd January. All clubs are obliged to release […]

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West Ham have been given permission by Avram Grant to delay the arrival of Andre Ayew at the AFCON training camp in UAE. The Hammers submitted a formal request to the Ghanian football authorities to delay their arrival of their record transfer signing  at the training camp by two days. West Ham are obliged to […]

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The chance of of West Ham keeping Andre Ayew for tomorrow’s game against Manchester United looks very likely after Aston Villa say they have been granted permission by Ghana to keep Andre’s brother Jordan until January 2 ahead of the 2017 Afcon.  Jordan Ayew will now be available for the clash with Cardiff City on January 2, […]

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Frustrated Aaron Cresswell  reckons the Hammers have themselves to blame for yesterday’s defeat declaring: “. We had some good chances and didn’t take them. Our goalkeeper has not had much to do.” He told the official site: “In the first half we had a sloppy 15 to 20 minutes and they scored a goal which he […]

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David Gold doesn’t believe the Irons got what they deserved this afternoon at Leicester and that we were worth at least a point. The co chairman told ClaretandHugh: “We carried the game to them throughout the second half. It was clear we needed a cutting edge of course but we  really did deserve something form […]

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Exclusive Mark Noble will miss the  clash against Manchester United at the London Stadium and the captain could find himself on the West Ham sidelines for some time to come. Noble has been a near ever present this season without over impressing and his early exit from today’s game could represent the start of a […]

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Leicester City 1 Irons 0 Match verdict Well let’s be honest. They deserved something didn’t they? But if ever a game showed you what’s wrong with the Hammers in the year of celebrity deaths it was the lack of a killer striker and I’ll tell you this – Andre Ayew is never going to be […]

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West Ham can jump up to ninth spot in the Premier League with a fourth back to back win this afternoon. An away win against 16th place Premier League champions Leicester City would put the Hammers on 25 points. A win or a draw for Southampton at home today against West Brom would keep them […]

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Valencia manager Cesare Prandelli  has stepped down just three months after taking charge. The shock resignation has come two days before the transfer window opens and now puts Simone Zaza’s loan move to Valencia in serious doubt! Juventus had provisionally agreed a similar deal with Valencia to the one that brought Zaza to West Ham […]

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The silly season is almost among us as the transfer  window officially opens at the stroke of midnight tonight. With the speculation comes a betting market, or what the bookies like to call ‘transfer specials’ – the odds of players joining other clubs before 1st February 2017. West Ham are seen as 33/1 outsiders to […]

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Bookmakers have slashed the odds of Jermain Defoe rejoining West Ham from 5/1 to 3/1 in recent days amid constant speculation. The Hammers remain the clear favourites but Crystal Palace have been installed as second favourites and former Irons boss Sam Allardyce would love to steal a deal from under his ex-club’s noses given half […]

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Well I said seven points like most everybody else, Hugh said ten but after tomorrow’s match I think Slaven and the boys will have proved us both wrong. When ClaretandHugh ran its poll on how many points we would pick up between Liverpool and Leicester the popular pick was seven and here we are on […]

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Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe has spoken to Sky Sports News about recent speculation linking him to a return to West Ham. “There’s going to be speculation because, let’s be honest, the people that score goals are wanted, over the years, anyone that has scored goals has been talked about in terms of moving to different […]

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