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West Ham youngster Jaanai Gordon is training with Cheltenham ahead of a possible move to the League Two side, Sky Sports News understands.

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It is now time to analyse player performance from yesterday afternoon’s abysmal drubbing at St James’ Park, as we find out who the main culprits of our defeat were by taking a look at how each featuring squad member ranked out of ten in The North East. Joe Hart: 7/10 To finish your first three games in Claret & Blue with 10 goals conceded is never ideal and yesterday was yet another afternoon to forget for The …

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Sporting Lisbon have now rejected bids for William Carvalho from Arsenal, Everton Manchester City and West Brom over recent years. Now it’s our turn. Tonight West Ham have made it clear that they are not ready to roll over and offer just short of the same sort of money money for a defensive midfielder as […]

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Manu Lanzini will be in the squad which meets Newcastle at St. James’ Park tomorrow (Saturday). The Hammers have been without the playmaker since he sustained a knee injury in pre-season, but he has trained with the first team squad all week. Slaven Bilic revealed: “Manuel started training with us without any restrictions this week. […]

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Robert Snodgrass has joined Aston Villa on a season-long loan from West Ham. ‘I am delighted to join,’ Snodgrass said. ‘I have had offers from other clubs but it was an easy decision to come here.’

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Southampton’s victory over West Ham came with more than just a little help from the Masonic lodge of referee’s, Lee Mason. His decision to award a last minute penalty for the adjudged push by Zabeleta on Yoshida condemned the luck less hammers to another away days defeat and left us propping up the table. If ever a game though, highlighted an explanation of the mystical West Ham Way, then this was it. Winston Reid, …

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80 Year 0ld West Ham Co-Chairman David Gold has mapped out his succession plan despite claiming he is doing everything possible to live to 100. Asked the question by Claret And Hugh Associate Editor Sean Whetstone in an Exclusive interview for MooreThanJustAPodcast he said:  “The situation would be that my daughters would inherit my shares […]

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Goals from Diafra Sakho and Andre Ayew were enough to send West Ham through to the Carabao Cup third round with a 2-0 win at Cheltenham on Wednesday.

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The Premier League season is now in full swing and we’ve got another six previews of Saturday’s action to offer up, including Manchester United vs Leicester City.

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Manu Lanzini has issued a timely tweet to ease the anxieties of Hammers everywhere. Injured in pre-season, the Argentine playmaker is on his way back – hopefully to form a positive link with Javier Hernandez who should thrive on the sevice he supplies. Things are starting to look a lot better on the injury front […]

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West Ham have little chance of tying up a deal for William Carvahlo in time for the weekend match at Newcastle despite optimistic reports in the media. And reports coming out of Portugal that the defensve midfielder will travel to London for a medical are quite simply wrong despite the claim he has agreed a […]

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You can’t fault either the never say die attitude of our fans or indeed the ability to invent new lyrics for an already catchy tune. In this clip we have a group of fun-loving Hammers fans on the train singing the new Javier Hernandez song led in chorus by the man (@block141whufc) who penned this […]

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Marko Arnautovic issued a grovelling apology to West Ham supporters on Saturday night after he was shown a red card for a brutal elbow on Southampton defender Jack Stephens.

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The fates of Robert Snodgrass and Jose Fonte tell a significant story and serve as a timely reminder of how important it is to get this summer’s signing policy spot on. It’s also perhaps as well to bear in mind that before blaming the boss for bad picks there weren’t too many of us who […]

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West Ham Joint Chairman was asked to define what the next level is for West Ham on the back of promises back by the board that the move to the London Stadium would help us move to the next level and the original seven-year plan for Champions League football;. Speaking to Claret and Hugh Associate […]

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Slaven Bilic insists West Ham are lucky to have David Sullivan and David Gold running the club.

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West Ham are watching their hopes of signing Willim Carvalho slowly slipping away and now rate their chances of doing a deal ith Sporting Lisbon at less than 50/50. Like interested clubs before them they are finding the Portuguese outfit almost impossible to deal with and one of our key insiders declaring: “It’s harder than […]

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The London Athletic Championships have been awarded an official Guinness World Record for the number of tickets sold at any IAAF World Championships event. The figure recorded on the official Guinness World Record certificate is 701,889 but with that taken two days before the end of the Championships, it will be updated to reflect the […]

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Grayson had revealed earlier this week that the Black Cats had missed out on a move for Bournemouth’s Max Gradel despite reaching an agreement with the Cherries.

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West Ham still haven’t reached agreement with Stadium owners E20 Stadium LLP to increase the football capacity to 60,000 or 66,000. ClaretandHugh understands no formal request has been made by operators London Stadium 185 to increase the London Stadium football capacity to 60,000 for this season. Operators LS185 will need to make a formal request to […]

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Trott – Not called upon for anything spectacular but solid when needed to be and great save at end to keep 3-2. 8 Pike – Fairly solid throughout, probably our best defender of the four. 6 Akinola – Couldn’t defend crosses, specially aerially but good playing the ball out from the back. 5 Pask – […]

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There were crazy scenes as Sofiane Feghouli was mobbed by hundreds of Galatasaray fans when he arrived at Istanbul airport yesterday. Galatasaray have since officially confirmed they remain in negotiations with West Ham for Feghouli’s permanent transfer. On their official twitter, they said “We announced we’ve started negotiations for the transfer of Sofiane Feghouli to […]

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Slaven Bilic is ready to let Robert Snodgrass leave the club either permanently or on a loan deal if a suitable offer comes in. The Scot was left out of the squad for yesterday’s game against Manchester United and although rumours are flying around on Twitter, no other club has come in for the winger. […]

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Excerpt from: Slaven Bilic Post Match Press Conference

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For Manchester United, it is difficult to see how their first game of the new season could have gone much better other than perhaps another goal or two to polish up their superiority. As it was, they shouldn’t be too greedy. Romelu Lukaku has wasted little time demonstrating why he became the club’s most expensive summer recruit and, on this evidence, it is shaping up to be a season of rich promise for José≈ Mourinho’s…

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2017/2018 squad numbers unveiled Our squad numbers for the 2017/2018 Premier League season have been revealed as we prepare for our opening-trip to Old Trafford later today. New signings Javier Hernandez, Marko Arnautovic, Pablo Zabaleta, Joe Hart and Sead Haksabanovic will take up the 17, 27, 5, 25 and 23 numbers respectively in their first-campaign in Claret & Blue. Meanwhile, there has been one change of number by an existing squad member, as Jose Fonte takes the No4 spot that was …

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