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Manuel Pellegrini is stoking up the pressure on the Hammers board to spend big and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that – in fact it’s exactly what he should be doing! Every good manager makes sure he’s bang in the faces of the people who hold the purse strings – it’s what they do from […]

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Ryan Fredericks has revealed that new boss Manuel Pellegrini is confident the Hammers will be enjoying a far more successful season than they experienced in 2017/18. The new signing – giving an interview with West Ham Tv after his move from Fulham – said: “I’ve spoken to him and he doesn’t think what happened last […]

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Sometimes over reaction and intense knee jerks become boring. That’s the summer for you  when the merest of molehills is presented as a mountain bigger than Everest allowing a fever to descend on some in claret and blue. Last night some quotes emerged from Manuel Pellegrini claiming  he was trying to get the Hammers owners […]

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West Ham have received no offers at this stage for Robert Snodgrass despite rumours that Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock is interested in signing the midfielder. At this stage the Scot will be on his way back to the London Stadium after a highly successful loan spell with defeated Championship play off finalists Aston Villa. […]

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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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Gazzetta dello Sport correspondent Nicolo Schira claims West Ham are in advanced talks with Lazio over Felipe Anderson who they want to offer a five-year contract. Writing on his personal Twitter account last night  Schira explained that the deal is being worked on by super agent Kia Joorabchian after West Ham reportedly tabled a £33million 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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In our latest Claret and Hugh poll this week, we turn our attention to midfield transfer targets this summer. Midfield names that have been linked to West Ham in the media include Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere, Felipe Anderson from Lazio, Danny Drinkwater and Ruben Loftus Cheek from Chelsea, Javier Pastore from PSG, William Carvalho from Sporting Lisbon, João […]

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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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Manuel Pellegrini’s interview in Chile with Emol seems to hint that he wants the West Ham owners to bring in one big name this summer like he did at Malaga when he landed Ruud Van Nistelrooy. If the reports are to be believed that big name could well be Javier Pastore from PSG,  the 28-year-old […]

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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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Jack Wilshire may have dropped a heavy hint as to where his future lies…West Ham United. The Arsenal midfielder is rumoured to have rejected a new three year contract at the Emirates after weeks of negotiation with the club. And following the arrival of new boss Unai Emery it seems that negotiations may have finally […]

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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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Some of us have seen more false West Ham dawns than we can remember while others – younger of course – have had there share of them or, put another way, more than enough! The last one came in  July 2017 when we reckoned the arrival of a marquee signing in Chicharito, an England goalkeeper […]

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Mike has and has actually HAD a dream which has him believing the Hammers will finally win the title. Yeah, well we are talking comedy stuff here and we are  listening to Mike on what turns out to  be a very hot day so maybe it’s given him a funny head. It’s Monday again and […]

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Marko Arnautovic’s links to Manchester United continue to be at the centre of the early transfer window speculation but the Hammer of the Year has been playing it down. He recently told Vivaro News. that Jose Mourinho’s appearance at the match involving his international team and Russia was simply in account of the United boss being […]

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The return of Joe Hart to Manchester City after his season-long loan to West Ham on £120,000 per week has left a keeper vacancy at West Ham.  While Adrian says he will wait for the opinion of Manuel Pellegrini adding he has nothing to prove,  a goalkeeping target is crucial to provide competition for the […]

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