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Bilic rules out further major activity Our Croatian manager Slaven Bilic has all but ruled out any further huge deals in this Transfer Window. We have already tied down the likes of Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hernandez for £24 million and £16 million respectively, as well as capturing the Manchester City duo of England No1 Joe Hart and right-back Pablo Zabaleta. Havard Nordtveit, Enner Valencia Ashley Fletcher and Darren Randolph have all gone in the other direction for fees…

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Chicharito, Manuel Lanzini and Diafra Sakho are all y unlikely to feature in tomorrow’s pre-season friendly against Altonaer FC von 1893 in Oberliga Hamburg state league which is the fifth level of German football. While the friendly will like a cup final for the local German side, West Ham will not want to risk their star players […]

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It appears Robert Snodgrass will stay a Hammer after prospective championship clubs interested in him do not want to pay his £60,000 per week wages. The  Sun claims he is likely to stay put until the January transfer window. The Scotsman has been linked with interest from Championship clubs Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, Middlesbrough […]

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Javier Hernandez has revealed he turned down offers from Spain and Italy to return to “the best league in the world”.

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Here we have YouTube funny man and lifetime West Ham fan Jaack Maate kindly joining in with the Hammers Chat series that gets people to answer multiple questions as if they were the manager of West Ham United.

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It’s the time of the week when I ask our fellow Hammers fans to send in their clips of all the things that have been occupying their West Ham world minds. This week however I have received a number of very different videos largely due to our activity in the transfer market and in particular […]

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Slaven Bilic has revealed how a phone call two years ago laid the foundations for Javier Hernandez’s transfer to West Ham this week.

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Newcastle United could be about to re-enter talks to sign West Ham goalkeeper Adrian claims the Newcastle Chronicle today. Rafa Benitez is understood to have identified the 30-year-old goalkeeper as a player who can challenge for the number 1 spot at St James’ Park next season. And the Chronicle claims that sources in London have […]

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West Ham are bracing themselves for a fight in holding onto Adrian after Palace made their first moves to take the Spaniard to Selhust Park. The Eagles had made an initial £3 million for offer for the keeper but we have been told tonight that this will be upped to £5 million the next couple […]

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David Sullivan has made a claim that Javier Hernandez could be one of the greatest players to have ever signed for the club. And given the Mexican’s record at the top of the game it would be very hard to disagree with such an assessment. Chicharito becomes the 33rd striker signed by the club since […]

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Slaven Bilic believes the club now has enough strikers at the club and will not be investing in anymore. Diafra Sakho is now back in full training with the squad and “looking very strong indeed ” which looks set to give the manager another big option. However, Andy Carroll remains on the first team sidelines […]

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This summers transfer dealings have been made all the more incredible in the way David Sullivan has managed to balance the financial books in the wake of a crazy inflated transfer market. Yesterday’s transfer of Javier Hernandez for £16m has bought the summer spending to £45m or closer to £50m when you factor in signing-on bonuses […]

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Phil Parkes makes no bones about having been a strong critic of Joe Hart in the past and insists the West Ham loan signing has ” a lot to prove during the next year.” But he admits to the world at large the England keeper’s signing makes a statement in Irons terms along with the […]

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The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed the section “Academy news” appear on the ClaretandHugh header as we approach the  new season. And this reflects the growing importance of the academy to the club with prospects such as Declan Rice, Josh Cullen, Nathan Holland, Reece Burke, Quina and the other lads making their advance on […]

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West Ham United have completed the signing of Marko Arnautovic, the club have confirmed on their official website. Marko Arnautovic joins West Ham after a club record transfer fee was agreed with Stoke City for his services. Arnautovic was keen on making the move from Stoke to West Ham and had handed in a transfer […]

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Middlesbrough have signed Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Darren Randolph for £5m on a four-year deal to help him in his quest for regular football ahead of next year’s World Cup.

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Middlesbrough have agreed a deal with West Ham for goalkeeper Darren Randolph.

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“It was a good game for us,” Bilic told WHUFC.com “Again we treated it as a training test. We trained this morning before the game and it was quite hot, but we wanted to stick to our schedule. “We played with two teams each half – only Josh Cullen and Moses Makasi had to play […]

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Watch Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho talk about former Javier Hernandez: “I think Chicharito will have twenty goals easy, even coming from the bench for the last 10 or 20 minutes, he will have 20 goals. He is a guy that naturally the ball comes, rebound here, rebounds there, boom – goal. The goalkeeper saves, […]

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Palace and Newcastle are today being reported as considering moves for West Ham Adrian. The Spanish keeper has been suggested as a Newcastle target for several days but the announcement that Joe Hart has finally joined the Irons on a one year loan has raised the intensity of the speculation   Adrian, 30, finished the […]

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Stoke have reluctantly admitted defeat in their attempts to convince Marko Arnautovic to withdraw his request to leave and the player said his goodbyes to teammates at their Clayton Wood training ground today ahead of an imminent £23m switch claims the Stoke Sentinel this evening. The 28-year-old joined Stoke from £2.6m from Werder Bremen as […]

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Paolo Di Canio has spoken of his undying love for the Irons and how he still nurses an ambition to be involved at the club. The hammers legend – speaking to Sky Sports – discussing the London Stadium said: “To go into a new stadium that looked nothing like the old one was not easy. “It […]

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West Ham have been heavily linked with the Mexico international and Bayer Leverkusen appear to be willing to allow him to leave this summer

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Paolo Di Canio speaks to Sky Sports about his enduring love of English football and his determination to return to West Ham in the future.

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Once again it’s your turn to voice your concerns about all things West Ham with our show featuring fans video clips. I never know what I’m going to get sent my way via the inbox but it’s clear that fan frustration is building regarding our lack of strikers. It’s not just the lack of transfer […]

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West Ham open their series of pre-season matches against Fulham next Thursday evening and one question dominates above all other – will Andy Carroll, Diafra Sakjho or both make an appearance? The squad will be involved in a game against a Sturm Graz Developmnt team on Monday evening but the “real action ” gets underway […]

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