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Current Hammers manager Slaven Bilic is under pressure and the former Everton and Manchester United boss wants the job should it become available

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West Ham United’s latest defeat at the London Stadium proved too difficult for most supporters to stomach, after a mass exodus from the ground during their side’s hammering by Liverpool. 

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Ahead of the Premier League’s weekend action, Sportsmail will be providing you with team news, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all you need to know as Liverpool travel to West Ham.

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Liverpool are up next for West Ham and the strange atmosphere around the club refuses to dissipate. The positivity of the magnificent comeback against Tottenham was tempered somewhat by the loss of a two-goal lead at Palace. Michail Antonio received a huge amount of criticism for his failure to run the ball into the corner in the dying seconds of the game, Garth Crooks going as far as saying he should be made to train with the …

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Not unexpectedly Andy Carroll look set to return for the Irons at the London Stadium tomorrow night. After leaving the big man out of his side against Crystal Palace Slaven Bilic has made it pretty clear he will be back in an attempt to sort out his former club. The manager tends selects players against […]

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The West Ham defender won 50 caps for Wales, but decided to hang up his boots after falling behind the likes of Ashley Williams and James Chester in Chris Coleman’s pecking order.

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The Sun newspaper claim today that a heavy defeat at home to Liverpool on Saturday may be the final straw for the board patience with Slaven Bilic even though they have no-one waiting in the wings to take over. The paper says the club feel they need to get points on the board before a nightmare run of games […]

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Ronald Koeman has been ruled out as a replacement for Slaven Bilic. The Dutchman has been mentioned regularly as a possible caretaker boss but his Sgt Major reputation and “patchy” record in Holland is working against him. There were many stories that his departure at Everton was as a result of serious tensions between him and […]

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Welcome to our latest CandH blogger Harry Rawlings who has been looking across Europe and at home for the ideal new Hammers boss – Harry is on the right!!! 🙂 There are few certainties in life but Slaven Bilic’s departure from West Ham appears to be as predictable as Christmas arriving on December 25. Just […]

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Ok lets put a smile back on our faces with Mike  on Monday – brought to you courtesy of our partners over at Hammers Chat. This is a guy who can bring a laugh in times of the deepest adversity whilst demonstrating it is possible to be a proud Hammer whilst remaining entirely disenchanted with […]

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Let’s take an in-depth look at player performance from Saturday’s inexplicable Premier League draw at the hands of Crystal Palace, as Slaven Bilic was let down individuals yet again. Joe Hart: 8/10 A hugely-impressive Man of the Match winning performance from the England shot-stopper as he recovered from a poor performance against Brighton & Hove Albion last Friday. Hart was on hand to deny the likes of James Tomkins, Jeff Schlupp, Yohan Cabaye and Wilfried Zaha on more …

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West Ham have a growing list of managerial candidates in mind as they look to replace Slaven Bilic with three occupying their immediate attention. There is now little question that the club is ready for a change following the desperately disappointing set of results. And after the 97th minute equaliser by Palace at Selhurst Park […]

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CandH introduces a new feature this evening with our Facebook Group member Danny Danielli Leach taking up his new role of tracking a particular Hammer every week in Player Watch. Welcome aboard Dan – thanks and a big well done mate!   After a spirited display in midweek in the Spurs derby, the captain Noble […]

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Slaven Bilic has given a big clue into his team selection thinking for a game at Palace which he admits “determines his own situation” dubbing it “massively important..” He declared: “Mental strength is most ­important thing. That’s why you need leaders, those kind of senators in your team. We’ve enough of them, a few captains […]

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Frank McAvennie has led the chorus of stunned amazement at the circumstances under which the Carabao Cup quarter Final draw was conducted. After a delay to the planned live event on TV because of apparent technical problems, the draw was pre recorded and released via the media. Now come on that’s not great particularly when […]

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Roy Hodgson has hit out at football’s sack culture and dismissed the notion of ‘must-win games’ ahead of Saturday’s crucial Premier League clash with West Ham.

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By Hugh Southon Why do I love our wonderful old football club? Can’t answer for you but last night summed up exactly why I have had a lifelong affair with WHUFC – all perfectly demonstrated in 90 of the most incredible minutes we’ll probably ever see. For 45  this was the Irons which so often […]

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Slaven Bilic has confirmed he spoke the West Ham owner David Sullivan but insisted he was his normal Monday post-match phone call. The West Ham manager told the press  “Every time after the game I have a conversation with the chairman and as always, he has been very supportive, backing the team, backing me but […]

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View the original here: Video: Slaven Bilic in his own words

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By Sean Whetstone Everton have parted company with Ronald Koeman today as he became the fall guy for a failed summer transfer policy which left the Toffees side unbalanced for the start of this season. However, Koeman’s recent failure in the transfer market does not make him a bad manager and in my view, Everton’s […]

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Terry Westley’s bright young U23 side missed a catalogue of opportunities at The Recreation Ground yesterday afternoon, as Chelsea managed to hold out for a 0-0 draw in an entertaining Premier League Two encounter. In a game that was largely dominated by the visiting side, the young Hammers just couldn’t find a winner, whereas, both teams defended well and the hosts equally threatened when they went forward. A draw sees the West London side fall a place to tenth with ten points, but…

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Terry Westley has hailed Declan Rice as the best young central defender in the country – certainly in under 23 football. The Republic of Ireland international was entirely brilliant for the team in the under 23s 0-0 draw against Chelsea this lunchtime as he made his bid for a place in the first team against […]

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Formations: West Ham started off with a 4-2-3-1 which in my opinion is our best team. In game it was bit more bizarre though with Bilic deploying Kouyate as a striker with Chicharito in order to win aerial balls with Lanzini dropping in to form a midfield 4. This was a short lived experiment though as Bilic brought on Ayew for Kouyate at half time. The 4 4 2 restricted Lanzini as he could not move into …

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A lack of good managers with proven Premier League experience is the dilemma facing the West Ham board at the moment as they consider Slaven Bilic’s future at the club. The bookies have Manuel Pellegrini, Carlo Ancelotti, Rafa Benitez, Sean Dyche, Roberto Mancini and Slavisa Jokanovic as their top runners as the next permanent West […]

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Slaven Bilic confirmed in his column in the Evening Standard on Friday that his players would benefit from having the area surrounding the pitch in the colour of claret, with the club prepared to pay the estimated cost of £200,000. “We have a great stadium but we want to improve it even more though, to make it […]

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