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It’s the January transfer window and rumours of all kinds of potential signings are flying around at the moment. With our efforts to bring a striker in before Monday’s 11pm deadline, this latest picture might have some fans dreaming of the biggest transfer in the history of the beautiful game. Manuel Lanzini posted a picture

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Carl Jenkinson has been ruled out for the rest of the season through injury. Jenko injured himself while giving away a penalty in Saturday evening’s 2-2 home draw with Manchester City, and Jack Sullivan confirmed this afternoon that his injury was far worse than first feared, and will be out for the rest of the

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Saturday evening’s draw with Manchester City epitomised everything we love and cherish about the Boleyn Ground. Under the lights, the ground rocking, the atmosphere electric, the players going toe to toe with the Premier League’s strongest squad and being unlucky to have only drawn the game. It had everything, and made me realise just how

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Who would’ve thought we’d be in a position to complete a Premier League double over Man City back in August?  Not only that but we can close the gap between ourselves and fourth placed Spurs if they slip up at Palace. What a time to be alive. Our capture of Sam Byram in mid-week was

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West Ham are interested in signing Reading centre-back Jake Cooper, as reporting by The Times. The Hammers are already expected to complete a deal for Leeds United right-back Sam Byram this week, and they’re now believed to be eyeing Cooper as another young defender from England’s second tier. Cooper broke in to the Royals’ first

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West Ham are closing in on a loan move for Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike, as reported by MailOnline. The news was exclusively revealed by the ever-reliable @ExWHUemployee on Tuesday evening and it is now being widely reported that a deal could be completed as early as Friday. Emenike, 28, is currently on loan at Al Ain in Abu Dhabi

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“We’ve got Payet, Dimitri Payet…” We all know the song. It’s unbelievably catchy and I often mind myself singing it to myself several times each day. It’s so good, that it’s become one of the most popular terrace chants in the country with fans of other clubs acknowledging it’s perfection. But today it emerged that

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When Slaven Bilic arrived in London last summer we quickly became accustomed to his willingness to share his philosophical views. Before laying down his principles he made it quite clear that he was very keen on bringing a fast, quick-passing, attacking style of football to West Ham,, which we hadn’t witnessed for some time. Expanding on this

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For any West Ham fan, having a player of the calibre of Alex Song, who has previously been at Arsenal and won the Champions League with Spanish giants Barcelona, is a huge honour. After the former Cameroon international arrived on a season long loan at the start of last season, Song was nothing short of

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So we’re currently on the longest unbeaten run in the Premier League than anyone else – seven games. And then if you include the win over Wolves in the FA Cup at the weekend, that’s eight games without loss ahead of our trip to Bournemouth on Tuesday. We owe the Cherries one after they beat

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West Ham have drawn Exeter or Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup – and Liverpool fans are genuinely worried about the prospect of facing us at Anfield. Of course Jurgen Klopp’s side still need to beat Exeter in their replay, but if they do then they face the very real prospect of

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The word ‘Legend’ gets used all too much in Football nowadays. The dictionary meaning of legend is; a superstar, icon, genius or a phenomenon. Ex-West Ham players worthy of such a status, in my humble opinion, would be the likes of Sir Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Sir Trevor Brooking and Billy Bonds.

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It’s FA Cup third round day and the big debate at the moment is whether we should give winning the competition our full attention, or concentrate on finishing as high up in the league as possible. That was question put to Slaven Bilic during his pre-match press conference earlier this week and his answer was

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Michail Antonio is fast becoming a fan favourite at the Boleyn. During the summer transfer window and amongst relatively unknown players, namely Messrs Payet and Lanzini, and other more known ones such as Moses and Jelavic, Antoni0 was the one player fans seemed to be most excited about. Coming from Nottingham Forest after a stellar

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As you may be aware, the January transfer window is well and truly open and despite Chairman David Sullivan insisting West Ham do not have a penny to spend on wages, the Hammers are still linked with players to sign this month. A bid of £7.4m for Besiktas winger Gokhan Tore has reportedly been knocked back

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The next fixture sees us host mid-table Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup third round. Bilic has already confirmed that he will play to win and Wolves are not to be underestimated with dangerous players such as Jordan Graham and Benik Afobe in their side. However, this is a great chance to have

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The FA Cup is always one that has an element of promise about it, and what a send-off this could be to Upton Park. This week’s action entails all of the third round draws, and we play a well in form Wolves team, so we will have to be careful as anything can happen in

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David Sullivan, David Gold, Slaven Bilic and young Jack Sullivan have all confirmed that transfer business is unlikely this window. Due to the wage restrictions imposed by Financial Fair Play rules, we have reached our cap and must sell if we are to buy. January is therefore expected to be a quiet month for the

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So if you haven’t already heard, Mark Noble is to have a testimonial – and the players he’s called up are slowly revealing their participation. Over the last 24 hours we saw former Hammers Rio Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair, Carlton Cole and Ravel Morrison confirm their call up by Nobes. But three more have now taken

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What I should have said was, why West Ham United do not need to buy OR sell in the January transfer window. What I do think, is this. We should be planning the summer signings and not worrying about what we already have. Let’s look at the evidence for not buying.,, Who do you buy

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What a year it’s been. It started poorly but has ended in superb fashion as we embark on arguably the most important year in the club’s history – 2016. We’re just months away from entering a new era. We’ll say an emotional goodbye to the Boleyn Ground and begin life in the hugely impressive Olympic

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As the end of 2015 approaches, it would be nice to find some time among the parties and festivities to reflect on the issues that our club faces in the new year. The season began in an amazing fashion, under the astute management of the imaginative Slaven Bilic. Blessed with a new-look squad of high quality

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The last few months have been pretty difficult. Injuries to Dimitri Payet, Winston Reid, Victor Moses, Manuel Lanzini and Diafra Sakho crippled us across November and December, but somehow we managed to remain relatively unbeaten – we only lost to Spurs. However, Manuel Lanzini’s return to the side in the second half against Southampton gave

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West Ham preparing to return for Juventus striker Simone Zaza in January, according to the Brentwood Gazette. The Hammers came close to bringing the Italian to east London in the summer but a deal fell through at the last minute after Juve decided to pull the plug on a season long loan deal worth £1.4m

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Is today the day we finally end our winless run? Our run of five consecutive draws? Can we secure a top ten spot at the end of 2015? Our injury list is continuing to grow, with Aaron Cresswell limping off against Aston Villa to make things even shorter at the back for us. The good

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I had the pleasure of speaking to Hammers Chat ahead of Monday’s clash with Southampton. It’s a bit of a weird stage in our season at the moment. We’re unbeaten in five but without a win in eight, so it’s hard to know whether to be happy or annoyed with where we’re currently at. One

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