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Sofiane Feghouli was missing from training in Germany yesterday with a club source insisting he was injured and it is not a smoke screen to mask his imminent exit. Speculation says Feghouli days are still numbered at West Ham as he prepares for a summer exit. Stade Rennais are the latest team who are said to be […]

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I sat down to complete what I thought would be a relatively simple task this morning – selecting the Hammers starting line up for next season – err wrong…it’s actually a tough old call. I started from the premise that everybody is fit although in the Hammers world that would represent something of  a major […]

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David Sullivan has made a claim that Javier Hernandez could be one of the greatest players to have ever signed for the club. And given the Mexican’s record at the top of the game it would be very hard to disagree with such an assessment. Chicharito becomes the 33rd striker signed by the club since […]

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Chicharito scored 11 league goals from 20 starts in the Bundesliga last season for Bayer Leverkusen last season and overall he has scored 28 league goals from 45 starts for the German outfit since joining from Manchester United in 2015. For Man United he scored 37 goals from 49 starts and managed 7 league goals […]

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Chicharito all the rage in top scorer betting market in the last 24 hours. Since the news of Chicharito’s move to West Ham was confirmed, Oddschecker punters have been piling in on the Little Pea to top the goal scoring charts next season. Mexico’s all-time record goalscorer also boasts the fifth best minutes-per-goal ration in […]

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Slaven Bilic has confirmed the ‘One out, one in’ policy for the remainder of the summer transfer window. Speaking on WHUFC.com yesterday evening he said “Now, something else can happen, if someone goes then someone will come in, but the majority of the team and squad are set. It’s exactly what I said at the […]

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Slaven Bilic has revealed how two years of patience has paid off in spades with the Irons landing supertar Javier Hernandez. The manager is ecstatic over his arrival and those of three other top starts telling the official site: “I am happy that the deal is complete as it’s a great signing for us. “I spoke […]

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A majority of West Ham fans have voted that Slaven Bilic’s new-look team are booked for a top ten finish which will carry them into seventh or eighth place in 2017-18. A ClaretandHugh poll of 2,239 fans saw 42.5 per cent (952) claim that would be the club’s finishing position at the end of the […]

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I’ve reached the end of my tether with Andy Carroll. In 2013 we made him our record signing investing £15.5m in the striker, made him our top earner with a basic of £85,000 per week and an overall package understood to be closer to £100,000 per week. We have been patient, we have been tolerant, […]

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Andy Carroll is back in the U.K and is back in rehab at Rush Green training ground. The player has been noticeably absent in official West Ham photos and videos in Germany but Claret and Hugh have been told he is now concentrating on getting fit back in England. The news comes a couple of […]

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David Sullivan has tipped Arthus Masuaku and Edmilson Fernandez to come good this season. And he has admitted that he has been under intense pressure to get the transfer window right this summer after last year’s horror show. He admitted: “Yes there was a lot of pressure but in Masuaku and Fernandez who cost around […]

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West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has talked about last summer’s transfer signings insisting two of them will still come good for the club while voicing his disappointment about the two strikers he took on loan last season. David Sullivan told Jim White and Tony Cottee on Talk Sport radio: “I like a couple of players we signed […]

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West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has admitted he knew Dimitri Payet was a flawed individual before they bought him but added he was a fantastic servant to the club for the first twelve months. Speaking to Jim White and Tony Cottee about Payet on Talksport this morning Sullivan said: “I think we knew Dimitri was flawed when […]

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West Ham Chairman David Sullivan went on Talksport radio this morning to speak to Jim White and former Hammer Tony Cottee about the transfer window for West Ham. Sullivan told White and Cottee “We have been working very long and very hard on them, eight days ago we had one deal in the bag with […]

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Chicharito’s switch to the Hammers is understood to have cost the club around £120k a week plus add ons. ClaretandHugh has learned that the little Mexican has landed a deal which will put him in advance of the club’s previous highest earner Dimitri Payet with the bonus clauses. It has emerged from our insiders that […]

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West Ham will operate a ‘one out, one in’ policy for the remainder of the Summer transfer window following the £16m signing of Javier Hernandez yesterday. The Hammers have now reached their upper annual wage budget as well as having a full squad of twenty-five players. With the primary transfer business done the club will […]

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Slaven Bilic believes the club now has enough strikers at the club and will not be investing in anymore. Diafra Sakho is now back in full training with the squad and “looking very strong indeed ” which looks set to give the manager another big option. However, Andy Carroll remains on the first team sidelines […]

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The exciting signing of Chicharito has not been welcomed by every West Ham supporter. A handful of fans made silly online wagers on social media believing the Hammers would never sign the 29-year-old Mexican in a million years. Ben Pattison said on twitter on 14th July “If West Ham sign Javier Hernandez I will give everyone […]

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This summers transfer dealings have been made all the more incredible in the way David Sullivan has managed to balance the financial books in the wake of a crazy inflated transfer market. Yesterday’s transfer of Javier Hernandez for £16m has bought the summer spending to £45m or closer to £50m when you factor in signing-on bonuses […]

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David Sullivan tonight finds himself in the unaccustomed position of being a Hammers fans hero. He will accept that with the same unworried shrug as when a vociferous section were calling for his head a few weeks ago  and claiming the club was heading for relegation if he didn’t get his finger out. One thing […]

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West Ham Unitedhave formally announced that  Javier Hernandez has tonight becomea Hammer.. In a website statement the club said: “The 29-year-old former Manchester United and Real Madrid star put pen to paper on a three-year deal on Monday afternoon, and will fly out to Germany in the coming days to meet up with Slaven Bilic […]

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Javier Hernandez is a Hammer! The club has officially announced within the last few minutes that the brilliant Mexican striker with a goals to game ratio to kill for has joined the club. And that was immediately greeted with whoops of “Come on You Irons” of legendary Hammers striker Frank McAvennie who declared: “Here’s the […]

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Javier Hernandez was officially announced as a Hammer tonight after weeks of speculation. The Mexican has signed a three-year contract with West Ham thought to be worth up to £140,000 per week with a £16m transfer fee going to Bayer Leverkusen. “I am very happy to join West Ham United,” he told WHUFC.com “For me, the […]

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West Ham are now hoping to announce Javier Hernandez as their new player this evening after the Mexican jumped straight off a ten-hour flight from Mexico to complete a medical. A two part medical was expected to be completed over two days with  Chicharito unveiled on Tuesday but the club and medical staff are working […]

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Javier Hernandez has arrived at Heathrow airport today ahead of a permanent deal to West Ham worth up to £140,000 per week to the player on a three-year deal. Chicharito was met at the airport by  Hammers Players liaison officer and England football chef Tim De’Ath together with a relative which appears to be his grandfather. He is expected […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken of his delight at capturing the club’s record signing Marko Arnautovic declaring: “It’s a great thing for the Club.It’s a big signing – he is a massive player who knows the league, which is very important. Speaking to the official site the manager added: “He is in his best age, he […]

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