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Cheikhou Kouyate is hoping West Ham can pull off a “special” result and beat Liverpool this weekend. The Hammers head to Anfield to face the third-placed Reds, who are just two points behind Manchester United in the table, on Saturday. Liverpool thrashed Porto 5-0 in the Champions League in midweek and have been enjoying the […]

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American website Sportrac claim to have the largest online sports team, & player contract resource on the internet. Below is what they claim is the accurate player payroll of West Ham ranked by annual and weekly salaries. Whether these are accurate we can’t guarantee but I can see Declan Rice asking for a pay rise […]

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A former Hammer gambled £16,000 at a Mayfair casino using a stolen card, a court has heard. Ex-West Ham winger Blair Turgott is accused of withdrawing the cash before exchanging it for chips during a night at the Playboy casino in central London’s Park Lane.At the end of the night, Turgott cashed out £16,900, leaving with a […]

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West Ham Joint-Chairman David Gold showed his sense of humour when the Hammers Rib man Mark Gevaux pointed out that the official Hammers website was already showing the full-time result of West Ham United v Manchester United on 18th March as 0-0 result. The Ribman wrote ‘David Gold is the Man United game on 18th March a […]

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By Jonathon Longdon According to reports David Moyes, wants to sign a pre-contract agreement with 21-year-old Jonathan Bamba before his contract comes to end in the summer. It’s part of a Moyes plan to rebuild the claret and blues in the close season. There’s a long way to go before West Ham can call Bamba […]

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West Ham will announce a record net profit as high as £25m in nine days time via the financial accounts are published at Companies House but remains cash poor. The Hammers earned TV money worth nearly £122m last season, up £35m from the last accounts thanks to the new Sky/BT TV deal. That applied to all […]

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Angelo Ogbonna has made a big point about David Moyes and his backroom team which may cause more than a little discussion among fans. For the central defender claims the most important thing he has brought to the squad is discipline which of course may ask questions of the previous managerial team! Ogbonna has been […]

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Versatile Aaron Cresswell’s ability to fill various defensive roles may give him an even better shout of making England’s World Cup squad this year. But at the moment he has only one aim – keeping the Hammers in the Premier League. At the weekend he returns to Liverpool and says: ““It’s a huge game every […]

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David Moyes will be keen to get a look at exciting Hammers wing prospect Nathan Holland before the end of the season. Academy chief Terry Westley told ClaretandHugh that the exciting right winger will be back in training this week after a four month play off. And now the player has confirmed his return tweeting: […]

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According to a report in the Sun West Ham have temporarily promoted first team performance analyst Jordan Miles to the head of recruitment role previously held by Tony Henry. Jordan joined West Ham in the summer of 2016 from Ipswich Town where he was the First team performance analyst for five years between 2011-2016. Before that the […]

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Joe Hart’s disastrous West Ham loan spell has left his World Cup hopes in disarray and David Sullivan’s judgement into question again. After splashing out £120k a week in wages on the stopper Sullivan declared the England No 1 was the best goalkeeper with whom he had worked.” Soon after England World Cup hero Gordon […]

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An online petition has been set up for supporters to register a vote of no confidence in the Executive Committee of the West Ham United Supporters’ Club after it was revealed that some of the committee were in favor of the dissolution of the 70-year-old institution they govern for their own financial gain. A minority of […]

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West Ham boss David Moyes sent assistant boss Billy McKinlay to watch Hibs and Scotland star John McGinn to Easter Road yesterday. The Hammers assistant boss watched the midfielder in the Hibees’ 2-0 victory over Aberdeeen. McGinn was regularly mentioned as a target during the winter window and  with just a year left on his […]

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Key Swansea defender Alfie Mawson could well be missing for their crunch clash with West Ham in two weeks. Mawson was very much on the Irons wanted list in the winter but the Swans were unwilling to entertain any sort of bid for the central defender. Now, the England under-21 international – having been picked […]

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West Ham are hoping that Under 23 keeper Nathan Trott may be able to fill the No 2 role to Adrian at the club next season. The departure of Joe Hart – currently on around £120k a week at the Irons – will free up a minimum of around £90k in wages but should Trott […]

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 Saint-Etienne’s exciting midfielder Jonathan Bamba has become a target for the Irons – according to The Sun.. The 21 year old has been a target for Huddersfield and Palace but he is now apparently wanted by the Irons whom it is claimed want him to sign a pre-contract with his deal running out at the […]

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Josh Pask sealed a previous victory for the Under 23s with a third minute winner at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon and with it almost certainly guaranteed another season of Premier League Two Division One football. The young Hammers hadn’t won in four games and were without a clean sheet in three before the trip to […]

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The Iron’s clash with Manchester United at the London Stadium has been rearranged following Joese Mournho’s team reaching the the Emirates FA Cup sixth round. United were set to visit the east end on Sunday 18 March at 1.30pm, but their fifth-round win at Huddersfield Town on Saturday evening now makes that impossible following their […]

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Josh Pask’s third minute goal gave the Hammers under 23s a brilliant victory over top of the table Liverpool in Premier League Two Division One. And the win all but secured the team’s place in the League for next season after their promotion last term. Pask (right) scored after the Liverpool defence had failed to […]

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Leyton Orient has decided not to pursue a claim of illegal state aid against West Ham’s rental of the former Olympic Stadium. US businessman and new owner of Orient, Nigel Travis allowed a complaint with the European Commission to lapse recently meaning the case against West Ham will finally be closed with the state aid […]

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David Moyes is determined to strengthen at central defence in the summer with West Brom’s Jonny Evans a priority target should the Baggies slip into the Championship. And he is also keen on fellow defender and Engllnd Under 21 Craig Dawson who signed a new three year deal with the club in 2017. Various top […]

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West Ham have taken 20 points from their last 12 games and that has come as a surprise to Aaron Cresswell who has been perfooming well as the team has moved away from the bottom three. And the left back believes the team is more than capable of keeping their form going when it returns […]

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The West Ham United Independent Supporters Association – WHUISA has reduced the cost of membership to just £1! The association says their aim is to provide a democratic, fully independent and self-funding structure through which all West Ham fans can voice their opinions without censure on matters that are important to us as well as express […]

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Brilliant Hammers prospect Nathan Holland returns to full training next week after a devastating four month injury hell. The former Everton youth prospect tore his hamstring the day before David Moyes arrived but is now back having completed all his rehab work. Academy boss Terry Westley told ClaretandHugh: “I remember the manager telling me how […]

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Confirmation that Robert Snodgrass is set for a Hammers return appears to have been given by Aston Villa’s local media source Birmingham Live. The winger – despite being very close to Villa boss Steve Bruce – looks to have made his mind up to forgive and forget the ill advised David Sullivan outbursts on his […]

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Karren Brady believes that  Kieron Dyer’s book ‘Old Too Soon, Smart  Too Late’ is a big reminder of how the game has been moved on. Dyer, made only 22 appearances and had never played a full 90 minutes for West Ham but was the club’s top earner on £83,000-a-week. He has some critical remarks of […]

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