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Slaven Bilic has reportedly slammed the door on a move for Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho after a deal had been done. The player is now believed to be close to joining Leicester City. Here’s the reaction from ClaretandHugh’s followers @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O This just makes no sense whatsoever. Why, Slaven, why? O He better have an […]

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Manuel Lanzini is on the verge of signing a new contract that will see him commit his long-term future to West Ham. The Argentine international’s new deal will propel him into the same wages as Michail Antonio on a basic wage of £70,000-per-week. With add-ons and bonuses, his weekly average wage could reach as high as £90,000 […]

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Adrian returned to training in highly positive mood and looking forward to pre-season. And he reminded the squad of the importance of “training well and playing strong in the friendly games” That will be well received by the fans who remember last season when the team produced some lack lustre performances followed by accusations at […]

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More than a third of Premier League football fans say they regularly watch matches live online via unofficial streams, according to a  recent BBC survey. The poll suggests younger adults are most likely to say they stream matches via unauthorised providers. Nearly a quarter of all fans surveyed regularly watch matches online via special technology, […]

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Yesterday’s rescheduling of three matches for West Ham in August and September prove again that match going fans come second in the modern game of Premier League football. The Premier League claim they always give a minimum of six weeks notice except for exceptional circumstances for any fixture changes to allow match going fans to […]

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Javier Hernandez could price himself out of a move back to the Premier League because of his wage demands. Although the transfer fee is affordable his agents are thought to be asking for a wage deal of £140,000 per week basic plus performance related bonuses for their client to join the Hammers. A deal at […]

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Well the news came from out of the blue and the response from the fans has been rapid. Here we have four fans giving their thoughts on the news that Slaven Bilic has chosen to call a halt to the pursuit of striking target Kelechi Iheanacho. It would be fair to say that most are far […]

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I’m probably about to make myself more unpopular  in many areas than is already the case but the CandH news that  manager Slaven Bilic appears to have put the block on Kelechi Iheancho is the right decision. Slaven Bilic is the manager and if at the end of a lengthy process he had second thoughts about […]

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West Ham United have officially announced that Pedro Obiang has signed a new long-term contract until summer 2022. The Spanish midfielder has been rewarded for a fine 2016/17 season, during which he caught the eye with his outstanding all-round qualities and scored his maiden goal in Claret and Blue. And the player has declared to […]

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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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