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Reports from Italy that advanced talks with Lazio are taking place about Felipe Anderson are wide of the mark Claret and Hugh has learnt. While there appears to be some interest from West Ham in the in-form winger alongside a number of other targets including Javier Pastore, the talk of a rejected formal £33m bid […]

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Swansea’s Alfie Mawson is the surprise choice of supporters in a Claret and Hugh poll asking for their preferred choice of  a new centre-back from a list of names already linked with West Ham. The 24-year-old defender polled nearly 38% of the votes from over 1,550 voting in Tuesday’s C&H poll. A recent article in […]

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Malaga sporting director Mario Husillos has left the club to become the new West Ham director of football. The Spanish club released an official statement to say: ‘Mario Husillos has finalised his last stage with the Club, in which he has been a player, coach and sports director. The club would like to thank Mario for his […]

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Manuel Pellegrini has ruled out bringing in fellow countryman Claudio Bravo to West Ham this summer. Pellegrini said he wouldn’t be making a move for is his compatriot, the Manchester City goalkeeper telling the Chilean media in a Live interview “Signing [Claudio] Bravo for West Ham is not viable either. It is not in West Ham’s […]

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West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini has spoken about his ordeal at the hands of armed robbers in Chile over the weekend giving his own eyewitness account. Pellegrini said: ‘I parked the car, walked for about 40 metres, then two masked men got out of a car and jumped on my wife to grab her handbag, then […]

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New Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini wants to convince the West Ham owners to buy a really big name in order to attract other major players to the club. He gave former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy – who he took to Malaga – as an example and clearly hopes he can repeat the act […]

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Jack Wilshere will not become a West Ham player this summer! New speculation arose today that the Arsenal midfielder could be on his way to the London Stadium after appearing to drop a heavy hint to that effect on social media. He dropped the name Arsenal from the description of himself on his personal bio […]

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Ryan Fredericks is now a West Ham United player as Manuel Pellegrini starts the rebuilding of a Hammers side which by common consent needs surgery. The official site announced the news after ClaretandHugh had brought the news a couple of hours earlier and were quick off the mark with the first words from the former […]

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She’s feisty, sarky and straight to the point which is why she’s  ClaretandHugh’s main Facebook Group admin  person and top moderator on the website.Caz Combes doesn’t understand, or start to tolerate BS, as she makes perfectly clear in her latest and rare appearance as a blogger on the site where she lets loose on the […]

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Ryan Fredericks is understood to have become a West Ham player this afternoon – the first new signing under manager Manuel Pellegrini. CandH sources told us that David Sullivan met the the former Fulham right back today and completed the deal as the manager is in Chile and the new director of football is in […]

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West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini is expected back at the club over the next couple of days as the serious business of organising departures and arrivals to the club begins. The Chilean has been in regular contact with his newly appointed Director of Football Mario Husillos (pictured right) since taking his summer break and will […]

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The big six will demonstrate precisely what’s wrong with the Premier League at a summit meeting later this week. They want a  larger slice of international television cash with Liverpool owner John Henry making tetchy noises about it being wrong that lower-ranking teams should be subsidised via the broadcasting cash. So far all previous attempts […]

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With the departure of James Collins and concerns over Winston Reid’s injury record, the centre back position is an area Manuel Pellegrini is reportedly prioritising over the summer transfer window. A number of defender names have been linked in the media to this position including Barcelona’s Marlon Santos, Leeds Pontus Jansson, Stoke’s Ryan Shawcross,  Genoa’s Armando Izzo, Swansea’s Alfie Mawson, West Brom’s Johnny Evans […]

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Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland leads the pack of who West Ham supporters who like to join West Ham this summer between the sticks. With over 1,700 voting in yesterday’s Claret and Hugh poll, over 50% would want Butland to pull on a Hammers jersey.  The 25-year-old has been linked to West Ham recently and it has […]

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Reports from Italy suggest that a €38m (£33m) bid for Felipe Anderson from West Ham has been rejected. Gazzetta dello Sport claims that Lazio won’t sell for anything below €50m (£44m) for Anderson.   The reason why the asking price is so high explains the article is that Lazio would owe Santos 25% of any […]

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Hammer Joao Mario has declared he won’t return to Inter Milan and says return to the Premier League and West Ham would be ideal. Technically Mario is contracted on loan as a Hammer until June 30th. “I will not go back” to Inter, the truth is that I don’t like Serie A. I don’t want to try […]

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Joao Mario is not short on confidence despite a West Ham spell which had most failing to make up their minds about his worth. For discussing his future in the Italian media he has no doubt about what clubs should be paying for him – and that’s a cool £45 million. The Hammers rejected the […]

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West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini was mugged at gunpoint late Saturday while walking with his wife in the Chilean capital Santiago, local police reported on Sunday. Both were unharmed, but the armed robbers got away with his wife’s purse, and the incident made headlines in local papers. Pellegrini and his wife were walking in the […]

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Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone is not a primary target for West Ham Claret and Hugh have learnt tonight. While there remains some interest in the shot stopper we have have been told he is a backup option with only a 5% chance of signing the 25-year-old this Summer. Johnstone spent a season on loan with […]

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Declan Rice barely raises an eyebrow that he is the Rebublic of Ireland’s next skipper in waiting. And that will come as a surprise to most outside of West Ham where his cool and composed to life on and off the pitch has drawn regular comparison with the great ooro The teenager is a mere […]

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Former Hammer Marlon Harewood scored 56 goals in 170 games for West Ham. This week he has dug out a treasured memory and took to Instagram to reveal the piece of nostalgia he found during a clearout of his garage at his home. While searching around Harewood found his all-gold Nike boots which he used against […]

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Hammer Declan Rice was awarded the man of the match for Republic of Ireland’s 2-1 win over the USA last night. Martin O’Neill’s side were on the back of a three-game losing streak, their most recent being a 2-0 defeat by France in Paris last Monday. They had only scored six goals in their previous […]

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Marko Arnautovic and Declan Rice both featured as their countries last night as Austria and the Republic of Ireland notched 2-1 victories over Germany and the USA. Austria’s victory over the World Cup holders saw them come from behind during a game delayed by an hour and 40 minutes due to heavy rain. Marko played 84 […]

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Bookmakers Sky Bet are running their Summer transfer specials and as normal this includes a number of West Ham players linked in the media as possible outbound transfers from the Hammers. Marko Arnautovic is at odds of 7/2 to join Manchester United and 12/1 to join Everton while Spurs and Wolves are both 25/1 However, […]

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The man in charge of Michail Antonio’s future is an agent called Will Salthouse who is the CEO from Unique Sports Mangement. Along with Aaron Cresswell, Pedro Obiang and Cheik Kouyate he is Antonio’s agent.  His other high profile clients include Harry Kane, Wilfred Zaha, Tom Cairney, Callum Wilson, Andros Townsend and Jamaal Lascelles to name a […]

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Sources close to Manuel Lanizni claim a major charm offensive is required by the new manager and the board when he returns from the World Cup.  The Argentian signed a four deal and with an option for a further two years in March 2o16 said to be worth £35,000 per week. Despite much talk of […]

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