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• West Ham’s £3m offer for Scotland international was rejected on Friday • Palace also interested in Robbie Brady, James Collins and Jérôme Roussillon Crystal Palace are ready to rival West Ham United’s attempts to sign the Hull City winger Robert Snodgrass, with the Scotland international expected to cost up to £9m despite having just 18 months remaining on his contract. West Ham saw a £3m bid for the…

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Today’s fluff glows white on the mountain tonight West Ham have given the world license to gossip after printing an anonymous article on their website , bylined “The Insider”, which reveals that “the board … have allocated significant funds to bolstering the squad. To that end, a bid of £20m was submitted for a player from Scotland. Meanwhile, an £8m bid was made for a player who currently plies his trade in the Championship, and a…

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• ‘We will take one game at a time until we arrive at last six or seven games’ • City squad rotation ruled out for FA Cup tie at West Ham United Pep Guardiola has admitted he is concerned Manchester City have a fight on their hands to remain in the top four but claims he prefers to have that worry rather than be relaxed at the top of the table. Related: Pep Guardiola insists he has ‘no plans to retire’ from…

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• Bilic says pressing of Pep Guardiola’s team has dented their confidence • West Ham manager goes into Friday’s Cup tie with ‘big ambitions’ Opponents have worked out how to play against Manchester City and Pep Guardiola’s side are “not that confident any more” said Slaven Bilic, whose West Ham United side play them in the FA Cup at the London Stadium on Friday night. Related: West Ham’s Slaven Bilic still in hunt for Jermain Defoe despite rejected …

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• ‘Last season he was probably the main reason Sunderland stayed up’ • West Ham also expected to table £9m bid for Brentford’s Scott Hogan Slaven Bilic remains in the hunt for Jermain Defoe after West Ham United had an opening offer for their former player rejected by Sunderland . Bilic once again sang the praises of the 11-goal striker who started his career at West Ham, though the manager refused to comment…

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• West Ham come back after first bid of £5m is rejected • Striker has scored 11 goals in 21 games this season Sunderland have turned down a £6m bid for Jermain Defoe from West Ham United and have reiterated that they have no intention of selling their leading scorer. It is the second offer from West Ham that Sunderland have received since the transfer window opened – the opening salvo was £5m – and West…

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• FA clears midfielder to play in FA Cup against Manchester City on Friday • Manchester City’s Fernandinho banned for four games after appeal fails West Ham’s midfielder Sofiane Feghouli has had his red card against Manchester United rescinded by the Football Association but Manchester City’s Fernandinho must serve a four-game ban after failing with an appeal against his sending-off in the win over Burnley . Feghouli was dismissed by Mike Dean following a collision …

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Liverpool, Manchester United, Sunderland, Leicester and others may be hit by loss of players to tournament as clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester City capitalise Now is the time for top clubs to prove that to be forewarned really is to be forearmed. Everyone knew that the Africa Cup of Nations was on the agenda for early 2017 and now, with 23 Premier League players among those heading off to Gabon to compete for their countries in what their employers view as …

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Today’s fluff has got a fist of pure emotion It has already been a good year for Chelsea . The opening days of 2017 have seen both Arsenal and Liverpool unexpectedly drop points in away games they might have expected to win comfortably, leaving the Blues basking in the luxury of both a game in hand and a five-point lead at the table’s summit. All of this has given Antonio Conte a little…

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• Referee to take charge of Cup match after Sofiane Feghouli controversy • West Ham have appealed against red card for challenge on Phil Jones Mike Dean will take charge of the FA Cup tie between Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa on Sunday, despite the condemnation that has followed his decision to send off West Ham United’s Sofiane Feghouli for a challenge on Manchester United’s Phil Jones on Monday. Related: Pep Guardiola’s winter of discontent is nothing…

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• West Ham also interested in signing former non-league striker • Hogan has scored 14 goals from 25 Championship appearances Watford have offered an initial £8m for Brentford’s Scott Hogan, with West Ham also interested in the 24-year-old fomer non-league striker. Watford manager Walter Mazarri is keen to strengthen his forward line having seen his side score just 23 goals in 19 Premier League matches so far this season. Related: Transfer window …

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Conor Hourihane could do a job for Sunderland or Middlesbrough and Manchester City should be bidding for Virgil van Dijk and Ederson Moraes By Martin Laurence for WhoScored? , part of the Guardian Sport Network It takes any goalkeeper time to readjust to a new league but Claudio Bravo’s first few months at Manchester City have been poor enough for a number of keepers to be linked with his position. If Pep Guardiola does…

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Ibrahimovic achieves statistic of 19 Premier League starts, 13 Premier League goals, showing teenage team-mate how it is done against West Ham Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s contribution was the garnish rather than the main course but compared with the kind of nourishment he had proposed for some onlookers earlier in the week, it still went down rather well. His had been a supporting part in a Manchester United performance that offered little more than fits and spurts before …

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• West Ham manager Bilic says the club will appeal • ‘The decision had a major impact on the game’ Slaven Bilic lamented the early red card shown to Sofiane Feghouli in West Ham’s 2-0 defeat to Manchester United and said that Phil Jones would have been a more suitable target for punishment. Feghouli was dismissed by the referee Mike Dean in the 15th minute after what had seemed a fair …

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Manchester United’s winning run marched on into the new year at the London Stadium with a tight, lop-sided but still oddly inevitable 2-0 defeat of West Ham pegged out around two decisive moments. The first was a Mike Dean joint, the Premier League’s most theatrically interventionist referee choosing to send off Sofiane Feghouli with 13 minutes gone after a challenge with Phil Jones that saw both men tackle strongly but fairly. With…

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Juan Mata and Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored to take Manchester United to within a point of fourth place after the controversial sending off of West Ham’s Sofiane Feghouli 7.23pm GMT Related: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on target as Manchester United beat West Ham 7.10pm GMT Well, what an odd game. Mike Dean’s harsh sending off of Feghouli in the first half should have given Manchester United the impetus to race away with the game. But that didn’t happen. It took the introduction…

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Some got roughed up by Gary Neville, others had an obsession with Twitter, but from Michael Ricketts to Oumar Niasse, these players all have a dismal January transfer in common At 11.30pm on the first ever January transfer deadline day, Middlesbrough sealed the signing of the striker who was intended to revolutionise their team. “I was stuck in a rut at Bolton, training was the same all the time, things …

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The way Leicester City rounded off the greatest year in their history augurs well for 2017. The champions will not retain their title, of course, but this timely reassertion of the virtues that earned them their proudest honour at least suggested they are primed to avoid an undignified descent into the relegation zone. There is a long way to go but this was a step in the right direction. Leicester came into this game with only one win from their…

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An MP’s question in October detailed rumours of the retail magnate’s involvement at Goodison, but is there any connection between him and companies who have lent millions of pounds to Premier League clubs? After almost two hours being interrogated on everything from the details of Sam Allardyce’s contract to homophobia at October’s culture, media and sport select committee inquiry, question 90 was the curveball the Football Association chairman Greg Clarke certainly wasn’t expecting. …

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• Supporters chanted for manager’s sacking during 4-1 defeat against West Ham • ‘We all heard the response in the stadium, it doesn’t feel good,’ says Bradley Bob Bradley accepts it is inevitable there will be discussions at boardroom level about his position after Swansea City slipped to a third successive defeat and a seventh in his 11 games as manager on a day when the mood inside the Liberty Stadium became poisonous. Swansea fans turned on Bradley by calling for…

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It was an afternoon when the mood turned ugly in South Wales as Swansea City supporters called for Bob Bradley to be sacked and vented their anger at the members of the board who sold their shares in the summer. “We want Bradley out” and “You greedy bastards get out of our club” were among the chants reverberating around the stadium during another chastening defeat for a team who look resigned to relegation. Related: Bob Bradley expects crisis talks after Swansea fans demand…

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The manager is yet to find a formula that incorporates the talents of Dimitri Payet and his string of summer signings into a coherent collective At points this season it has seemed not only were the problems of the world on Slaven Bilic’s shoulders but also those of Venus and Jupiter too. The West Ham United manager has been forced to defend his club’s new stadium, their stewarding set-up, the quality of the pitch, the …

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Leicester hope to party like it’s 1963, Liverpool must find a way to stop Joe Allen scoring and it is eight years since Phil Brown’s infamous Hull City team talk Every year for more than half a century folks have been hoping for a repeat of the Boxing Day fun of 1963, when the 10 top-flight fixtures produced a record tally of 66 goals. We can’t get an exact repeat of that this year because half of the teams who were in the First Division…

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• Interest in Payet could bring out the best in him, claims manager • Injury will sideline West Ham striker Diafra Sakho for up to 10 weeks Slaven Bilic has said West Ham will do all they can to keep their “top player” Dimitri Payet during the January transfer window. Payet has again been the subject of interest from other clubs as the window approaches, with Arsenal and Manchester United linked with the France …

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