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Dimi Payet has made it clear that West Ham’s ambition was the key card in convincing him to commit to the club until he heads for his 34th birthday! After greeing his new deal he told West Ham TV: ““I think there is everything here to make West Ham a big club. You need time […]

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West Ham fans at the ClaretandHugh Facebook group have been responsing to the news that Dimi Payet has signed a new deal to 2021. Here’s what some of them are saying:   O We don’t get to reduce players wages when their form dips or if they are injured. I don’t really understand why a […]

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So Dimitri Payet as landed himself a new Hammers deal worth over £100,000  week ( for the first year at least) and two camps appear to be arising over the wisdom and ethics of the decision. There are some who believe that it shows a mercenary attitude and that wages are more important to him […]

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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has weighed into the debate about ticket pricing after fan protests at Liverpool forced their owners to have a rethink on their pricing strategy. Slaven told reporters “It is business. Football clubs are business. On the one hand I can understand it, on the other I saw a great picture […]

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The Daily Mail are reporting that the new five and a half deal signed by Dimtri Payet this evening will keep his basic wages at £68,000 per week but add-ons will push his pay package over £100,000 per week at least for the first year of the new deal. Payet is understood to be receiving an add-on […]

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• French playmaker agrees new long-term contract until 2021 • Summer signing had been reported £38m target for unnamed Chinese club Dimitri Payet has signed a new long-term contract at West Ham. The 28-year-old French playmaker was only seven months into a five-year deal having joined from Marseille for £10.75m last summer but had been a reported £38m target for an unnamed Chinese club. Such has been Payet’s impact…

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He’s signed! All those rumours of a £38m bid from some random club in China are just a distant memory now the club have confirmed Dimitri Payet has signed an improved contract which keeps him in claret and blue until 2021. He has been the Premier League’s signing of the season by a country mile

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Hammer Josh Cullen has joined League One side Bradford City on loan initially until Saturday 12th March.The 19-year-old youngster, who can play as a holding midfielder as well as a number 10, joins West Ham teammate Reece Burke in West Yorkshire. Cullen is expected to go straight into the Bradford squad for Saturday’s game away […]

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West Ham have released an official statement to confirm Dimitri Payet has signed a new long term contract with West Ham which will keep him a Hammer until 2021. On WHUFC.com  the club website says “West Ham United are delighted to announce that Dimitri Payet has signed a new long-term contract with the Club.“The outstanding […]

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West Ham spent a total just under £86m in transfer fees assembling it’s current first team squad. Football website TransferMarkt.com who often Football website TransferMarkt.com says the current market value of the West Ham squad has increased to over £102m. Our completely Hammers biased valuation takes into account age of player, length of  remaining contract, […]

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………Everyone breathes a sigh of relief!!!!

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West Ham forward Dimitri Payet has signed a money-spinning new deal worth up to £35million. The Frenchman’s bumper package is the most lucrative in the club’s history.

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Dmitri Payet is right at this moment (Thursday evening) “very close to signing an improved deal with West Ham United. As we reported via our insiders yesterday the brilliant midfielder has been presented with a variety of new contract options and is now in the process of bringing the short saga to an end. Speculation […]

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Sportsmail has spoken with supporters of all 20 Premier League clubs to gather thoughts on what should happen next in the continuing campaign to lower the price of tickets.

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Former West Ham United manager Harry Redknapp believes John Terry would be a great signing for the Hammers should his contract not be renewed with Chelsea.

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Sportsmail has spoken with supporters of all 20 Premier League clubs to gather thoughts on what should happen next in the continuing campaign to lower the price of tickets.

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Slaven Bilic believes the players can shake off the fatigue at Norwich because of the feelgood factor. We head for Carrow Road on the highest of highs but beyond that  the manager had more good news saying: “On Sunday, Manuel Lanzini will train with the team which is obviously a big boost for us. “If […]

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The London Legacy Development Corporation’s appeal against  a ruling by the Information Commissioner obliging them to release the full details of the 99-year lease agreed between the corporation and West Ham has been adjourned until the 17th March Claret and Hugh understand. The three person panel headed by tribunal judge, Melanie Carter met two weeks ago on […]

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A new state-of-the-art pitch will be installed at the former Olympic Stadium with work scheduled to commence at the end of February. The pitch used during the 2015 Rugby World Cup has been ripped up and work has begun to prepare the ground for a new one to be laid. A new Desso Grassmaster pitch will be installed […]

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West Ham ‘won the World Cup’ in 1966, but they also finished 12th in the league, behind champions Liverpool and FA Cup winners Everton. Here are a few more things you might not know about English football’s most glorious year By Richard Foster for The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Guardian Sport Network England started the tournament with a limp, listless goalless draw but ended it in fine style by overcoming an old rival in a high-scoring…

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Dimitri Payet has been a revelation since arriving last summer and the club are ready to reward the forward with improved terms amid interest from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua.

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Winston Reid will be scanned for a hamstring problem today and the club has revealed this morning that Joey O’Brien has a similar problem. But delivering his latest injury update, the club’s top medic Stijn Vandenbroucke said that Cheikhou Kouyate – after losing consciousness against Liverpool during a challenge with their defender Jon Flanagan – […]

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Exclusive Peterborough’s director of football Barry Fry told ClaretandHugh this morning that Martin Samuelsen’s appearance in the FA Cup Final fourth round replay against West Brom last night was his first full match since joining Peterborough United on loan from the Hammers last year. Samuelsen was in fabulous form but Fry said: “He’s still a […]

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Young Hammer Martin Samuelsen suffered the ultimate heartbreak last night as he missed a spot kick in the penalty shoot-out which saw Peterborough slip out of the FA Cup to West Brom. However, he might have got away with it when vastly experienced Albion star Darren Fletcher dribbled an awful shot wide immediately afterwards in […]

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West Ham’s wage bill has created a lot of discussion over recent months with claims of FFP and all the rest of it. So ClaretandHugh has taken a look at what we believe to be the situation at the club and has based our Pay League table on information we have received recently and in the […]

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Martin Samuelsen was the 18-year-old attacking midfielder who ran the show during the FA Cup fourth-round replay against Barclays Premier League opposition.

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