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We’ll be hosting our new feature ‘Cup of Tea with Geo & Gonzo’ at 8:30pm tonight which can be watched live here on Claret and Hugh. The topic for debate tonight is the now confirmed interest from energy drinks company Red Bull to try and gain ownership of our beloved West Ham United. The whole […]

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West Ham’s chances of signing Jermain Defoe from Sunderland have dipped dramatically after CandH discovered details of the striker’s contract. The Hammers would be keen to sign the former striker next month but know there is little chance of grabbing the Black Cats top scorer. Hopes had risen that a deal could be on after […]

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The Hammers finished off former Swansea boss Bob Bradley’s reign at the club on Saturday and now an ex Hammers manager wants to take the job. American Bradley had been thin ice for a long time but Slaven Bilic and the team took an axe to the piece he was standing on with their 4-1 […]

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The Sun newspaper claim West Ham are set to sign veteran Patrice Evra on loan from Juventus. The report claims that the Hammers are close to striking a deal to return striker Simone Zaza with Evra  coming back on loan the other way after falling out of favour under manager Max Allegri this season. The left-back spent […]

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West Ham joint Chairman David Gold brushed off an insult on social media from West Ham fan David Cater. After a spate of recent celebrity deaths including Rick Parfitt, George Michael and Carrie Fisher, Mr Cater wrote to David Gold and Karren Brady on twitter saying: “Hopefully Karren Brady, David Gold and Sullivan will be the […]

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Former Hammer Shaka Hislop told viewers on ESPN that Marcus Rashford should consider joining West Ham in the January transfer window. Asked whether Rashford should make a loan move to the Hammers Hislop quickly answered: “Absolutely… ! There is no club better at bringing through youngsters through than West Ham. There is no bigger club in […]

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Toulouse has refused an offer worth around ten million euros for Martin Braithwaite from West Ham according to RMC Sport. Braithwaite has 7 goals in 16 games this season in Ligue 1 for Toulouse. The Danish striker was a target for the Hammers in the Summer after scoring 12 goals last season for the French side. […]

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Gokhan Tore will remain at West Ham after the January transfer window after his parent insisted that the Hammers honour their season long loan and pick up his rehabilitation costs following his recent operation which will keep him out of action for the rest of the season. Tore was hoping to return Besiktas in January but […]

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West Ham are once again being linked with a January move for Manolo Gabbiadini from Napoli after the Italian club intimated they are now ready to let him go. According to a report in the Daily Mail yesterday the Hammers along with Stoke, Everton and Crystal Palace are following developments closely. Napoli have been asking for […]

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West Ham are interested in Croatian striker Nikola Kalinic according to a report in Italian newspaper Corriere Dello Sport. The 28 year old player has Premier League experience from scoring 13 goals in 53 games for Blackburn Rovers, before heading to Ukraine with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 2011. The striker moved on to Italy with Fiorentina scoring 25 […]

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Former Hammers Glen Johnson and Jermain Defoe are two names being linked with a return to West Ham today as internet rumours gather pace before the transfer window opens on Sunday. KUMB.com online forum member who goes by the name of Jinxed has suggested the Hammers will move for a number of proven Premier League players as […]

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West Ham Joint-Chairman David Sullivan says his New Year’s resolution is to further unite West Ham’s Board of Directors and the Club’s supporters.    “I am aware that since the beginning of the season a small number of supporters have struggled to adapt to some of the changes we have faced this year as West […]

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Speculation is gathering pace that West Ham will attempt to sign Jermain Defoe when the transfer window opens on Monday after West Ham’s captain Mark Noble started following following the former Hammer on social media. Noble with over 82,000 followers on twitter made Defoe his 310th person he follows. Last week ClaretandHugh confirmed that “conversations” […]

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As 2016 draws to an end we recap on the best moments of the year. 2nd January 2016. West Ham do the double over Liverpool for the first time in 53 years with two headed goals from Andy Carroll and Michail Antonio to seal a two nil win at home. 9th February 2016. West Ham […]

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Michail Antonio has scored more goals in 2016 (15) than Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino (14 each). Antonio scored his eighth Premier League goal of the season on Boxing day in a 4-1 demolition of Swansea City adding to the seven goals he scored last season from January this calendar year. Another […]

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Internet rumours suggest West Ham may have done a secret deal with Westfield Shopping centre in Strafford to avoid a home football crowd at the London Stadium on Boxing day. Our picture below shows the crowds swarming throughout the shopping centre the day after Christmas. West Ham played 230 miles away from Strafford this Boxing […]

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Andre Ayew’s first goal ‘heroics’ from a yard are unlikely to keep him in the West Ham line-up for the trip to Leicester City at the weekend. Slaven Bilic has admitted that the club’s record signing is not yet up to full speed but was forced to use him for Manu Lanzini at his former […]

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Darren Randolph has made it clear the Irons have met every recent target and are really happy to have given the fans a great Christmas. The win over Swansea topped off a great run and the keeper said: “We wanted to take more points off a team that was down the bottom and we managed […]

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West Ham co chairman and chief shareholder David Sullivan has made it crystal clear that he would only sell the club to somebody like the  “King of Saudi Arabia who can take it to a level we cannot ourselves hope to reach.” He admits on the club’s official website there was “a tentative approach to buy […]

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There was so much to take from the win at Swansea and I am under no illusions that the Wales outfit are a poor side! But then so were Hull and we were a million times better than  against them The one thing  that pleased me above all else was that despite Dimi Payet having […]

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Sunderland boss David Moyes has made it clear to West Ham that Jermain Defoe will not be leaving the club at any price. Commenting directly on the speculation that Defoe could spend his final days at the club which groomed him he said: ““It wouldn’t be considered. I don’t think there’s any price because we […]

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By Rich Sprent Nine from Nine. Thank you Slav. Exactly what the Premier League doctor ordered. I had written that anything less would require an inquest and I stand by that. We have just played three of the worst teams in the division and come away with a full haul of the points. It often […]

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David Sullivan has finally put the Red Bull takeover story to bed this evening by admitting there was an offer from the company but that the Irons board had turned it down….SIX MONTHS AGO! The Sun reported this morning the Hammers were being targeted by the energy drink firm who saw the London Stadium as […]

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Winston Reid grabs the second against Swansea. Pic Courtesy CandH Facebook admin Jeff Parkins. Slaven Bilic claims the key to the Hammers revival has been that nobody in or around the squad “ever stopped believing.” He told the official website: ““The two wins against Burnley and Hull were hard but they put us in a […]

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Delighted with the win – unhappy not to keep  a clean sheet – that was Slav’s response to the 4-1 win in Wales. The manager said: “It was a shame to concede because it would have been nice to get three clean sheets in a row but it was a very good performance from us. “We […]

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The BBC are tonight reporting that Red Bull have denied all reports they have any interest interest in West Ham ….just as we told you this morning. Under the headline “Irons takeover story a load of “red bull” our story totally rubbished the tale in The Sun. You can read our report here: http://www.claretandhugh.iean havnfo/irons-takeover-story-a-load-of-red-bull/ The […]

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