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West Ham have made an opening bid worth between €15m (£13.2m) and €20m (£17.5m) for Toulouse central defender Issa Diop, according to French newspaper L’Équipe. The Frenchman is also attracting interest from Sevilla, Everton, Fulham and RB Leipzig, according to the publication. The report says Toulouse have yet to respond to the Hammers’ proposal. Meanwhile, […]

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West Ham are continuing to talk to Swansea over a deal for central defender Alfie Mawson after being given the thumbs up by boss Manuel Pellegrini. ClaretandHugh has learned that the new manager was told of all possible targets whom the club had tracking on his arrival at the club and he has agreed that […]

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West Ham boss Mauel Pellegrini and his director of football Mario Husillos will hand the board their list of player targets when  they return to London this week. The Hammers put false stories in The Sun of Husillo’s decision to reject the Director of Football’s job to bed today when formally announcing his position on […]

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West Ham have officially announced the appointment of Mario Husillos as the Club’s first Director of Football. The experienced and widely respected Argentinian joins the Hammers after a spell as sporting director at Malaga, where in 2012/13 he worked with the Club’s new manager Manuel Pellegrini through the most-successful period in the Spanish side’s history. Husillos has […]

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Former Hammers manager Sam Allardyce has called for the West Ham owners to back new boss Pellegrini in the transfer market with big funds to get the best players. Big Sam told talkSPORT: yesterday  “I am not sure if David Sullivan and David Gold realise that he will want the best players to come to the […]

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Academy Director Terry Westley will take a West Ham United XI for fixtures against a range of different opponents in pre-season including a two-match tour of Slovakia and games against National League trio Barnet, Dagenham & Redbridge and Salford City. And speaking to the official site he said:  “The boys are at a level where they need […]

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West Ham striker Javier Hernandez has denied suggestions that the Mexico squad were joined by escorts at his 30th birthday party following their friendly win over Scotland. The El Tri squad gathered to celebrate their 1-0 victory over Alex McLeish’s side in Mexico City last week, but local reports in the country alleged the festivities lasted […]

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Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in the northeast section of Switzerland, also known as Heidiland. This will be base of the West Ham first team squad not at the World Cup between 2 and 13 July. In 2015 the resort and Bad Ragaz celebrated 175 years of thermal water, which technically dates back to 1242. Fifty years […]

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Various hares are already running as the Hammers summer transfer window starts to get active and much looks to be highly uninformed guesswork. According to The Guardian for example the Hammers will be making a move for Norwich City’s James Maddison as a replacement Manu Lanzini. That would be all well and good were it […]

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With little to occupy himself with seemingly, Sam Allardyce is back on the media scene making pronouncements which seem more than slightly ridiculous. A couple of days after managing the England team to a 3-3 draw in the charity match against the Rest of the World BFS has given his ‘take’ on Manuel Pellegrini  on […]

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West Ham’s ‘serious’ transfer activity is set to start over the next few days as Manuel Pellegrini and Mario Husillos return to London. The pair have been in constant touch whilst in Chile and Spain over the last week to ten days and will be moving in on chosen targets with Husillos now in total […]

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West Ham have again made it clear that speculation surrounding the position of  Mario Husillos is 100 per cent wrong. A story in The Sun claiming there has been a fall out with the board and that he will not now be taking up his position with the club is inaccurate. And we have also […]

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PSG midfielder Javier Pastore risks pricing himself out of a move to West Ham claims football agent Bruno Satin. Pastore was heavily linked with a move to the Hammers this summer with a transfer fee with PSG agreed in principle, however his wages demands of £190,000 per week are deemed excessive and there is currently a stalemate unless […]

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Adrian has told the Spanish media that he is attracted to the idea of a return to Betis saying if the time comes he would sit down and talk about it. The comments were reported by Estadio Deportivo  and translated by SportsWitness On potentially returning to Betis, Adrian said: “Of course I am aware of all the […]

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Italian journalist Gianluca DiMarzio claims West Ham’s initial bid for Felipe Anderson was just £17.5m plus add-ons which was rejected by Lazio who want something closer to £35m he claims on his football website. DiMarzio says: “West Ham have officially started their pursuit of Felipe Anderson, making an offer of € 20m plus add ons to Lazio for the […]

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There is much wide speculation about Manuel Lanzini’s devastating injury and the real severity of it. On one hand, those close to the player are saying he is very confident he will in six to nine months for the start of the 2019/2020 season while others claim it is the worst rupture of the anterior […]

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West Ham have tonight flatly denied various reports across Europe that they are about to do a deal for Barcelona defender Marlon Santos. The Irons have been linked with the player for a couple of weeks now since The Sun somehow managed to create a link to the 23 year old after he has enjoyed a […]

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Manu Lanzini is heading to Barcelona for a consultation with world renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ramon Cugat in Barcelona this week. He will be joined by the Hammers new head of medical Richard Collinge and has vowed to ‘come back as best as possible’ after suffering a serious knee injury. Lanzini is believed to have suffered a […]

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West Ham – despite, as regularly reported, having had no contact from Manchester United over Marko Arnautovic – are keeping an eye on a couple of United players as they head into the final year of their contracts. Both defender Chris Smalling and striker Anthony Marital would be of interest although the striker is currently […]

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Well, after so long on the dark side I supposed some of us should be used to West Ham life. A summer that started in a blaze of happiness and optimism with the appointment of our new manager is slowly slipping gears into neutral or reverse even. There weren’t many who weren’t well pleased with […]

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West Ham’s goalkeeping position is today continuing to cause anxiety with Adrian allegedly seeking assurances over his position at the club. We reported last night the Spaniard is unsettled by the current situation with the club looking for and launching bids for a new keeper. And today word is that with a year left on […]

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West Ham are still considering their pre-season plans with suggestions that they may set up a training camp in Malaga. Nothing has been finalised at this stage with plans for a Swiss camp also possibly on the agenda but a return to Manuel Pellegrini’s old club hasn’t been ruled out. And were that to become […]

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West Ham have given up on a move for Fulham’s Tom Cairney who has been strongly fancied by both former boss David Moyes and new manager Manuel Pellegrini. The club has made solid inquiries about the 27 year old midfielder who has been outstanding in the newly promoted Premier League side. But the Cottagers are […]

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West Ham remain entirely confident that Declan Rice will sign a new three or four years deal with the club and are unworried by the leak which claimed the defender had only been offered an £8k weekly wage. The preliminary skirmishing around such contract negotiations are entirely normal and there has undoubtedly been some predictable […]

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A long overdue crackdown on the activities of agents is one of the major issues to arise from the latest Premier League recommendations to emerge from the latest chairman’s meeting . A  decision — backed by 15 clubs including the Hammers— will see recommendations drawn up o be passed on to FIFA who are themselves […]

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West Ham will have are set to shed over £13 million from their annual wage bill once they have offloaded the players  likely to be surplus to requirements under new manager Manuel Pellegrini. With Financial Fair Play Regulations again being taken seriously across the game – notably at Paris St Germain – the club are […]

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