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Liverpool travel to Watford and Claudio Ranieri takes charge of his first Fulham game at Craven Cottage. Follow all the action from around the grounds right here with Sportsmail's NATHAN SALT.

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Pep Guardiola is not reputed for handing out huge accolades to other managers as Jose Mourinho may be ready to testify but he is clearly happy to make an exception in the case of Manuel Pellegrini. The Spaniard is probably the world’s top boss right now so to hear him pouring praise on our Chilean […]

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Mark Noble looks set to return to midfield today and some big questions about the skipper could be answered over the next 90 minutes. It could hardly be a tougher return for him after three games out – a situation visited upon him entirely by his own hand of course. This game will be a […]

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Manuel Pellegrini wants everybody to think in terms of winning today against Manchester City rather than “getting a good result” and hopes the rest of us do to. Discussing the toughest challenge of the season the manager was in buoyant mood saying: “We will certainly be positive. I prefer teams that start the game thinking to […]

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Andy Carroll returns to the squad for today’s clash with Manchester Ciy but Jack Wilshere will not be included in the high profile match. Wilshere returned to full training during the second week of the international break whilst Carroll has now had the full fortnight with the squad and is ready to make an impact. […]

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Michail Antonio is ready to give it his best should he be called on against Manchester City this afternoon at the London Stadium. The former Hammer of the Year has found it tricky to nail down a permanent place in the team this season but has regularly made substitute appearances and thus far has made […]

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Morning reports that West Ham are ready to extend Pablo Zabaleta’s contract seem a little dated to put it mildly. ClaretandHugh first revealed that the player had a clause in his contract which would see him receive a new deal once he had completed 28 appearances for the club. https://www.claretandhugh.info/zaba-can-trigger-automatic-hammers-contract/ That was greeted with widespread approval […]

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Manuel Pellegrini insists West Ham will take the game to Manchester City despite the memory of some recent hidings.

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Pep Guardiola’s halo was slipping during the opening weeks of 2017. He became agitated and snappy at persistent suggestions that our league was different and he had to evolve tactically.

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Pablo Zabaleta knows that nothing is impossible in football – even beating Manchster City. After spending nine years at the club and having won two Premier League titles he now comes face to face with former teammates including Aguero and Silva. And he told www.whufc.com about the chance of facing his former club saying: “It’s […]

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Pep Guardiola has heaped praise on Manuel Pellegrini whilst speaking to the media during his presser ahead of the match against West Ham tomorrow (Sat). “His career speaks for itself,” Guardiola told his pre-match press conference. “Even if you are blind you can recognise his style. “In Villarreal, he put the team on a different […]

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Some of the City players were clearly affected by the afternoon chill and were seen wearing woolly hats as they waited for their train on the platform.

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West Ham’s hopes that Manu Lanzini will return to action this season are fading. Manu had made a January comeback his personal target earlier in the year following surgery on his cruciate knee injury but the club has always believed it was more likely to April or may before he returned. However, ClaretandHugh has learned […]

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Felipe Anderson is not only doing but saying all the right things at the moment as the Hammers faithful warm to their £35 million man. And tomorrow (Sat) will show how far he has come after a slow start which has taken in one deeply impressive performance against humble Burnley. That was a terrific game […]

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Mark Noble reckons there no player in the Hammers squad who will be looking forward to the match against Manchester City more that “our talisman” Mark Arnautovice. Writing in his London Evening Standard column back from suspension Noble declares: ‘Arnie’ is back from international duty with Austria, he’s trained well this week and I know enough […]

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The Premier League is back after the international break with Tottenham v Chelsea on the pick of the bunch. Here's the best bets at Wembley and the top picks across the rest of the fixtures.

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Manchester City will definitely be without Bernardo Silva for the trip to the London Stadium this weekend after the play maker picked up an injury on international duty. Etihad chief Pep Guardiola confirmed the player would be missing from the line-up this weekend saying: Bernardo .cannot play this weekend, it’s not too big (an injury) but […]

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The Premier League is back after the international break with Tottenham v Chelsea on the pick of the bunch. Here's the best bets at Wembley and the top picks across the rest of the fixtures.

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Manuel Pellegrini has received some timely advice on how the Hammers may not only cope with, but beat Manchester City at the London Stadium tomorrow (Sat). And it comes from a man who has already done it with Shaktar Donestk in the Champion league last season – a guy who was interviewed for the Hammers […]

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Felipe Anderson is an example of how Hammers stars are responding to the calm approach of Manuel Pellegrini’s laid back approach to management. It’s the same style that has seen the boss respond to a variety of difficult situations since he arrived at the club beginning with a dreadful start to the season. Since then […]

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Manuel Pellegrini accepts that ambition is proper and correct and thus he is able to understand Marko Arnautovic’s attitude to his career. The manager – having heard Marko tell the fans not to believe everything they read in the papers following his brother’s loose lipped talk about a switch to a top club – understands […]

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Zeelo, the flexible shuttle service,will be offering West Ham fans in Essex FREE travel for their Premier League match against Man City tomorrow ( Saturday). Hammers fans can travel free direct to the London Stadium if they are one of the first 50 people to book by entering the promo code HAMMERS on its website here: https://zeelo.co/rides/west-ham/west-ham-united-vs-manchester-city-15470 Tickets […]

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Pablo Zabaleta believes Samir Nasri would be an excellent signing for the Irons ao long as he can solve his fitness issues claiming he has all the skill and creativity in the world. Here’s how ClaretandHugh Facebook followers responded to his comments on what some see as a very controversial move. O In Zaba I trust […]

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Fabian Balbuena is following in a readitrion of South American Hammers and wants to make the same sort of impact! The £6.5million defender was signed in July from Brazilian club Corinthians — one of Carolos Tevez’s former teams. And he has spoken of how a number of players in South ­America were inspired by the heroics […]

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Marko Arnautovic finally feels fully fit after going two weeks without getting any reaction from the knee injury which has been troubling him virtually since the season opened. Despite his injury issue Arnie has been playing virtually to his max which is amazing given that until the last fortnight he has been unable to complete […]

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Manuel Pellegrini has made up his mind that he wants Samir Nasri at West Ham but has stopped just short of saying so. It’s an absolute given the boss is a lover of highly technical players and that Nasri certainly falls into that category. There are of course understandable question fitness marks over the former […]

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