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CandH Exclusive West Ham have pulled out of the race for Manchester City starlet Kelechi Iheancho …on the orders of Slaven Bilic. ClaretandHugh has learned within the last few minutes that the club – having done a deal – saw it snubbed by Bilic at the eleventh hour David Sullivan had agreed a deal with […]

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West Ham’s first game of the Premier League 2017/2018 season with Manchester United at Old Trafford has been rescheduled to Sunday 14th August at 4pm and will be televised Live on Sky sports. West Ham will then face Southampton away at St Marys in a reverse fixture on Saturday 19 August 3pm after the south coast club agreed […]

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The chances of West Ham signing or loaning Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea took a setback today as Romelu Lukaku has reportedly rejected a return to Chelsea. According to breaking news this morning Manchester United have agreed a fee of around £75m with Everton for striker  Lukaku and they hope to complete the transfer by Sunday so he […]

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West Ham have announced that the Club has sold out of all 52,000 Season Tickets available for the 2017/18 Premier League campaign. Over 5,000 Hammers supporters have snapped up all available tickets in just over two weeks since they opened to the those on the 55,000 Waiting List. A record ninety percent of existing season […]

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West Ham appear to be stuck in a 206/17 summer transfer window time warp It seems that whenever we read that the Hammers have made a bid for a striker they have made an opening offer of 25 million euros or less. We know that is the figure been put on Kelechi Iheanacho and the […]

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The quest to sign Oliver Giroud from Arsenal appears to be in trouble with the Hammers learning the striker genuinely wants to stay in North London. Wehave learned this morning that despite the Gunners landing their primary striker targetof Alexandra Lacazette for a record fee of £46.5m from Lyon yesterday, the Giroud deal is no closer […]

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West Ham have made a new €25m bid for an unnamed striker last night and the board await an answer from his parent club this morning. The name of the player isn’t being released until the deal is successful to avoid alerting other clubs into making late bids. Last week the Hammers failed with €25m bids […]

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West Ham’s summer transfer budget is around £62m mark rising to as high £80m if further players are sold this summer. The Hammers have averaged £45m spend each summer which appears to be base Summer transfer budget. Surplus left over from the £25m sale of Dimi Payet after buying Snodgrass and Fonte adds £7m to the […]

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London Stadium operators have hit back at Bayern Munich and the Allianz Stadium who yesterday claimed to now have the largest digital screen in Europe. Bayern proudly announced on social media  “The largest digital screen in Europe has been installed at Allianz Arena!” London Stadium 185 tweeted this morning “We’re not precious, but our screen is […]

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Andy Carroll, Diafra Sakho, Pablo Zabaleta, James Collins, Mark Noble, Sam Byram, Ashley Fletcher Pedro Obiang and Arthur Masuaku have all been spotted in an official West Ham video at the Rush Green training this afternoon. Adrian, Kouyate, Antonio, Reid and Ogbonna were more camera shy but we are told they were all there. Winston […]

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Kelechi Iheanacho remains the Irons big summer target and it’s probably easy to see why when taking a look at his goals in 2016/16 for Manchester City. This morning came news that Leicester City – who were believed to be favourites to get him – may have turned their attention elsewhere and that will be […]

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West Ham look to have been presented with a breakthrough in their chase for Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho. News has broken over the last few hours that Leicester City – who were being as quoted at 4/9 favourites to grab the striker – have turned their attention instead to Watford’s Troy Deeney. Should that be […]

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West Ham will continue to concentrate  on their major striker targets before making a £15 million move for Burnley’s Andre Gray. The club has admitted the 26 year old is a target but believe they have more difficult negotiations on hand before offering Gray the terms he requires. Olivier Giroud, Javier Hernandez, Kelechi Iheanacho and […]

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Slaven Bilic will welcome back Adrian, Winston Reid, James Collins, Angelo Ogbonna, Sam Byram, Arthur Masuaku, Chek Kouyate, Pedro Obiang, Mark Noble, Michail Antonio, Edimilson Fernandes, Ashley Fletcher, Andy Carroll and Diafra Sakho who are all expected to report for training at Rush Green this morning. Absent will be Jonathan Calleri, Gokhan Tore, Havard Nordveit […]

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Mexican outfit Tigres UANL have finally completed a deal with West Ham to sign Enner Valencia this evening. An Official announcement from both clubs should follow by Friday this week assuming a medical is passed and the contract is signed by the Ecuador international. He is said to have already agreed personal terms with the Mexican team. West […]

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A new report claims Galatasaray have reached an agreement with the Hammers over the transfer of Sofiane Feghouli according to beIN Sport Turkey. The Turkish team are said to have struck a €4.5 million (£4m) deal with the Hammers for their player but the Istanbul outfit are said to yet agree personal terms with the Algerian winger. […]

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West Ham will play a  team from SK Sturm Graz Development squad on 17th July according to a report on Austrian sports website sportreport.biz David Tauschmann is the new coach of SK Sturm Graz Development squad is quoted as saying in the report: “In the next four weeks we will prepare for the regional league season. Our goal […]

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Hammers fan Sean Phillips will make his professional boxing debut at the Copper Box in London this Saturday 8 July. The West Ham supporter told Claret and Hugh he has been a Irons fan for as long as he can remember telling us this evening: “I’ve supported West Ham for as long as I can remember, […]

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Slaven Bilic is on the mend will return to Rush Green training ground tomorrow morning after recovering from an operation to his right hip. He had a successful operation on Wednesday 23rd May and after a few days in hospital was released on crutches. He has been holidaying with his family in his hometown of Split […]

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Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette is reported to be a medical away from joining Arsenal and that will see the way paved for Olivier Giroud’s departure. Assuming the BBC report is correct, and there is no reason to suspect otherwise, the Giroud deal could be very much on and if that’s the case the Hammers board […]

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West Ham will listen to offers for four Hammers in this summer transfer window. Enner Valencia is available for offers over £5m after his season-long loan with Everton came to an end and they decided against taking up a £10m option. The Ecuador international cost the Hammers £12 million but with two years left on his […]

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The bookies – we are told never get it wrong – but when it comes to novelty bets such as where a player is going to end up in the summer transfer market that may not hold true. We’ve taken a look at the prices of players joining West Ham after days of speculation in […]

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Refreshed from a summer break in Los Angeles, Sam Byram is back and ready to get fit for the long season ahead. The right back clearly intends to challenge Pablo Zabaleta hard for a role in the tam but admits he isn’t looking forward to the first week of training. Sam was back at the […]

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West Ham are continuing their hunt for a minimum of two strikers whilst being ready to listen to all realistic offers for Andy Caroll and Diafra Sakho. The Hammers have learned that Javier Hernandez is in no rush to decide his future but continue in talks with the Bayer Leverkusen striker’s agents. The Irons board […]

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Olivier Giroud has told the official Arsenal podcast he wants to stay at Arsenal to carry on his ‘Good journey’. “I won a few titles in my career, that is an important thing, but there is another thing which is important for me and that’s that the people see you as a loyal warrior on […]

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While the majority of the first team will be expected to report for duty tomorrow morning at Rush Green, those who were on international duty over the summer will be given an extra five days off. Robert Snodgrass (Scotland), Manuel Lanzini (Argentina), Aaron Cresswell (England) Darren Randolph (Ireland), Jose Fonte (Portugal) and Andre Ayew (Ghana) […]

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