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Slaven Bilic told reporters that Andy Carroll is suffering a whiplash injury while admitting Reid, Byram and Feghouli have all suffered knocks. During his pre match press conference Slav said “Carroll has got a bit of a whip lash injury, that is not my words, that is what I have been told from the physios, […]

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West Ham are still waiting on manager Slaven Bilic to give the go-ahead for Scott Hogan’s move across London from Brentford. And in the meantime the club has explained that any hopes of bringing former striker Jermain Defoe to the London Stadium are “well and truly dead.” Bilic – having seen the summer transfer programme […]

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West Ham have this morning confirmed that they are deeply involved in trying to bring Southampton’s Jose Fonte to the club and that the fee will be between £10 million – £12 million. We were told the club believe they have a 40 per cent chance of making it happen in a transfer market when […]

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Cock-up official  Mike Dean will drop out the Premier League this weekend as he is made to pay the price of his entirely incorrect sending off of Sofiane Feghouli and the award of an offside goal against the Hammers. He will take charge of the Yorkshire derby between Barnsley and Leeds on Saturday as he […]

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West Ham has entered the world’s top 20 super rich football clubs for the first time, sneaking into 18th place.  The annual Deloitte Football money league shows Manchester United has replaced Real Madrid at the number one spot while Barcelona jump up to the number two spot leaving their Spanish rivals in third. Eight Premier […]

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West Ham are said to be in advanced talks to sign defender Jose Fonte from Southampton, according to Sky Sports. The Portugal international, who has 18 months remaining on his contract at St Mary’s, expressed his desire to leave Southampton earlier this month. Fonte revealed on social media in December he had not rejected a new […]

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West Ham are fully prepared to allow Dimitri Payet to serve out his remaining years of his contract in the West Ham Academy at Chadwell Health if needs be to prove a point to the football world. They are keen to prove that West Ham are no longer a selling club and this is not […]

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This is the face of the American billionaire who holds Payet’s future in his hands. His name is Frank McCourt, the new owner of Marseille who sold the US baseball team, The LA Dodgers for £1.5 billion in 2012. In 2004 the former property developer bought the LA dodgers from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp […]

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During a three hour meeting with West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady at the London Stadium a wide range of topics were discussed. These subjects included: the quality of  stadium stewarding, ongoing filming of supporters,  honouring former legends, making the stadium feel more like West Ham’s home, shelving for drinks around the bar areas, more betting booths, the […]

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    Dimi Payet turned up for training with the under 23s today and these pictures from Chadwell Heath show exactly what sort of state the Frenchman appears to be in right now. That a European superstar should reduce himself to this situation is really pretty mind-blowing but I guess nothing in football should really […]

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Cheikhou Kouyate and Andre Ayew were both on the winning side at the start of the 2017 CAF Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. Kouyate skippered Senegal to a 2-0 Group B victory over Tunisia in Franceville, and the team now tops the the group following Algeria’s 2-2 draw with Zimbabwe – their opponents tomorrow […]

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Dimi Payet is this morning being reported as having made a desperate plea to West Ham to allow him to leave for Marseilles this January. We understand he has cited family reasons but the Hammers remain unmoved until the bidding hits their absolute minimum of £30 million. Payet is allegedly insisting he wants to go […]

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West Ham are still to make a final decision on the signing of Brentford’s Scott Hogan. Having arrived at an upfront figure of £9 million for the Bees striker, the club are edging towards a deal although his injury record remains a worry. More importantly, however, is getting Slaven Bilic’s final approval on the 24 […]

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As Sean has mentioned below a number of us met with Karren Brady last night to discuss a number of issues and to assist in the transition to the new stadium. We’ll produce a more detailed video analysis over the next couple of days but here is our initial reaction. I’d just like to say […]

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West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady spent a three hour meeting on Tuesday evening with representatives of the many of the West Ham websites, blogs fanzines and social media channel community. Together the sites and social media accounts are read and watched by tens of thousands of West Ham supporters. Present at the meeting included KUMB, […]

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The Ghana FA has dismissed reports claiming that Asamoah Gyan has stormed out of Black Stars’ 2017 Africa Cup of Nations camp on the night before their crunch clash with Uganda in a dispute with West Ham’s Andre Ayew over captaincy. The GFA was forced to issue a statement on Twitter after a website published […]

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Media reports in France this morning suggest that Marseille will make one more bid for Payet this Thursday before turning their attentions elsewhere. Marseille’s latest bid of £22m on Monday is nowhere near West Ham’s valuation of Payet of £35-£40m. The report in France says Marseille will likely make one more bid for Payet and […]

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Dimitri Payet was pictured looking glum as he left the Chadwell Heath training ground at 9.45am  this morning. The Daily Mail published a photo of the 29 year old French player behind the wheel of his £90,000 AMG CLS63 S sports car. ClaretandHugh understand that Payet is doing one to one training with the Academy […]

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Watford want to bring former Hammer Mauro Zarate back to the Premier League with a £3m bid. The Argentinean striker has had stints with Birmingham, West Ham and Queens Park Rangers. But the Hornets ‘ manager Walter Mazzarri believes he can tame the fiery Fiorentina star and is close to tying up a loan deal […]

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Leeds United have slapped a £15 million valuation on their striker Chris Wood after West Ham have allegedly shown interest according to reports. The New Zealand international has been tearing up the championship this season with his goals firing Garry Monk’s men up to third in the league.  Wood has scored 17 times in 29 […]

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West Ham have told Dimi Payet to apologise to their fans and show some loyalty to the club after rejecting a fresh bid from Marseille. The club dismissed a £20million offer on Monday for the disgraced 29-year-old playmaker, who is currently on strike. However, it would be a huge shock should Payet to do so […]

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Brazilan team São Paulo have confirmed their interest in signing Jonathan Calleri during a press conference. Football director José Jacobson Neto said the club want the player despite problems with his third party ownership. He told reporters: “I think we lack a number nine, otherwise, I think we’re well prepared for this first semester. Calleri is interested, but […]

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Reports claim West Ham have rejected a second bid from Marseille for outcast Dimitri Payet. The report in the Sun newspaper says that Hammers joint-chairman David Sullivan met with representatives from Payet’s former club earlier today but flatly rejected an improved offer of £22million for his rebel midfielder. The club would prefer Payet to apologise to […]

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Dimi Payet has been valued at £36m while Michail Antonio has been valued £31.8m in a list of the world’s 100 most expensive players. In total, of the 100 players listed by the Football Observatory, 40 are from the Premier League, and nine are English. Neymar who David Sullivan claims he once tried to buy […]

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Inevitably comparisons have been made by non West Ham supporters of the time Slaven Bilic wanted to leave West Ham for a ‘bigger club’ namely Everton and Bobby Moore tried desperately to leave West Ham for Spurs in 1966 before winning the world cup with England. While both facts are true, both players were professional […]

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West Ham have sent Marseilles negotiators back to France with a flea in their ear for the second time. The Ligue 1 outfit’s top team arrived to try sorting out Dimitri Payet’s move back across the channel but found it hard going with uncompromising David Sullivan in charge at our end.. They had already seen […]

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