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A recent freedom of the information requests shows the catering income for specific West Ham games last season. West Ham v Bournemouth Premier League match catering income £268,734 West Ham v Spurs Premier League match catering income £301, 489 West Ham v Arsenal Premier League match catering income £273,770 Based on these figures assuming a per match […]

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Arnautovic’s season with West Ham has got off to a nightmare start after the club record transfer signing was red-carded on his second appearance for elbowing Southampton’s Jack Stephens.  The initial transfer fee was £22.3m which could rise to £25m with add-ons. He earns a basic wage of £65,000 per week plus bonuses on a five-year […]

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ClaretandHugh’s View Remember Brexti? ….remember Trump? ….remember the UK election? remember the anger the spite the malice, the rage, the obscene posts on social media –  a place which doesn’t need a lot of help in that area ? We all do, but nobody can maintain that level of intensity whatever the issue, and it […]

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 Andre Ayew was unable to help Ghana to victory in the third round of the World Cup CAF qualifiers against Congo on Friday.  The Black Stars escaped a shock defeat at the hands of the visitors, as Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey salvaged a point for the West Africans with an 85th minute equalizer. The result […]

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The Sunday Express this morning claims that Rafa Benitez is being lined up to take over West Ham if Slaven Bilic fails to turn things around in September. Bilic had talks with Hammers co-owner Dave Sullivan after his side lost their opening three games and the Croatian rejected the chance to strengthen his squad with […]

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West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady has revealed that West Ham insists on a financial penalty if West Ham players on loan do not get plenty of first-team time. Speaking in the Sun newspaper Bardy said Loan spells are now an essential part of football saying Youth players on the fringes of first team football […]

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Son of West Ham Chairman Dave Sullivan Junior gave an interview the Sports Bible about West Ham. Asked whether he believed that Jack and himself would be the next chairmen of West Ham? “I personally think Jack is more likely to be the chairman of West Ham, however I would still like some input. Jack is currently […]

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Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has given a great insight to transfer deadline day for a football manager after he allowed cameras from the Bleacher report to follow him around for the day.  Within the video, the truth is revealed why the Domingos Quina move collapsed. He explains a week earlier, the signings Jerome Sinclair, […]

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  Exclusive by Claret And Hugh Associate Editor, Sean Whetstone   West Ham Co-Chairman David Sullivan has tonight flatly denied claims from Sporting Lisbon that West Ham never made bids for the defensive midfielder for William Carvalho. Sullivan speaking only to ClaretandHugh a few minutes ago in response to provocative and controversial statements from the Sporting […]

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Sporting Lisbon’s director of communications Nuno Saraiva has hit out at West Ham co-owner David Sullivan after his official website statement and challenged him to prove his claims on William Carvalho. Speaking on Facebook Saraiva said: “Mr David Sullivan lies. Sporting Club de Portugal, as was said by its president, did not receive any proposal for […]

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Sky Sports claims that a medical can be completed after the 11pm transfer deadline day in direct contradiction in a statement released by the West Ham joint Chairman last night on the official website. In a Sky Sports Transfer Q&A Can a medical take place after 11pm (or midnight on Sept 1 in Spain)? Yes, a medical […]

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Sporting’s president Bruno de Carvalho says he had not received a single concrete offer for their defensive midfielder William Carvalho. Bruno de Carvalho made a statement to press at an event to state that Sporting  Lisbon received no formal proposal for William Carvalho. “There was no single proposal for William Carvalho, we did not refuse an offer or anything, […]

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Some West Ham players have taken advantage of the International Break to jet off with their families for the weekend.  Adrian posted a photo from the airport on his way back to Spain saying “Days off” and “Family time” However, Hammers players are only taking their contracted two days off per week and must return […]

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A social media poll of nearly 6,000 conducted on twitter by @WestHamTransfer shows 85% of those who took part want the current board out. Of the 5,952 who voted just 15% wanted the board to remain. In March this year David Gold said “If 86% of West Ham fans voted for me to go I […]

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A Daily Mirror survey has examined the net spend of every club in the Premier League and claims the Irons totals out at £17.3 million. This places them in 15th place with Spurs some way between them in 16th with a total “layout” of minus £2.6 million whilst Stoke and Burnley fill the two bottom […]

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Former Liverpool, Spurs and Fulham player Danny Murphy says West Ham season will improve this season but claims the midfield is not strong suggesting Mark Noble is nearing the end of his career. Writing a column in the London Evening Standard Murphy says: “I know West Ham have had a very difficult start to the season, but I honestly […]

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Michail Antonio has claimed West Ham have the players with the ability to bring their season back on track and show how good they are. Speaking to the London Evening Standard at the launch of the Third Kit he said: “We had three games with not good results, but hopefully back at home against Huddersfield […]

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David Sullivan has delivered his verdict on this summer’s transfer window and claimed -amid a social media meltdown – that the board are behind the manager. The co-chairman and David Gold have been at the centre of some pretty vicious attacks on their transfer policy but have allowed it to pass over their heads. And […]

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For the first time this season, Premier League clubs are allowed to display sleeve sponsors on their kits in the 2017/18 campaign.Shirt sleeve branding has been prominent throughout European leagues for years but has always been banned in the Premier League. Top-flight clubs have been allowed to sell advertising on their shirt sleeves for the first […]

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Sky Pundit Paul Merson has graded West Ham’s summer transfer business at a B+ but says they should be spending £100m Major ins: Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City, free), Joe Hart (Manchester City, loan), Marko Arnautovic (Stoke, £25m), Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen, £16m). Major outs: Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough, £5m), Reece Oxford (Borussia Monchengladbach, loan), Alvaro Arbeloa (retired), Havard […]

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David Sullivan has spoken to the official website to shed light on the transfer window, insisting Slaven is happy with the business that has been done over the summer. He also reveals he offered two players to the manager who turned them down. “Overall Slaven is happy with the business we have done during the […]

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Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy were joined by actor, presenter and Celebrity West Ham fan James Corden on Talksport Sports Bar on Thursday night. The host of America’s popular ‘The Late, Late, Late Show’ is a massive West Ham fan and admitted he is now doubting whether Slaven Bilic is the right manager for the […]

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Former Hammer Tony Gale said on TV recently that West Ham have spent £4m net in the last four years which is completely false! Here we analyse the real net spend over the past four seasons 2017/2018 Season Spent £41m Sold £21.8m  Net spend £19.2m 2016/2017 Season  Spent £63.72m  Sold £36.90m  Net spend £26.82m 2015/2016 Season […]

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Slaven Bilic today read the riot act at Diafra Sakho after the striker turned up for training following his crazy attempt to engineer a move to Rennes. And it was entirely in line with ClaretandHugh’s report of last night (Thursday) that he faced stiff financial penalties should he break club rules again. Slaven Bilic warned […]

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If you read social media today you could be fooled into thinking West Ham have already been relegated this season. The internet has been going into meltdown with both anti -manager and anti-board feelings running high after the day after transfer deadline day. There are new crowd funded campaigns for large protest banners and talk of […]

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Portuguese newspaper The Record claim West Ham made a fresh last minute cheeky offer on deadline day to Sporting Lisbon for William Carvalho. The report claims that the Hammers would have asked for a six-month loan deal with an option to buy. The Irons would have paid Carvalho wages plus a  €2m loan fee and […]

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