The player was sold before Mourinho’s time at Old Trafford, and while he said he made no attempt to bring the forward back, he also thinks it is a shame he does not have Hernandez available.
Posted on 26 July 2017.
The player was sold before Mourinho’s time at Old Trafford, and while he said he made no attempt to bring the forward back, he also thinks it is a shame he does not have Hernandez available.
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Reports suggest Crystal Palace are in talks in an attempt to get Adrian to swap London clubs with West Ham getting a transfer fee of around £3m in return. Palace has reportedly turned their attentions to the Spaniard after failing in initial move to land Jasper Cillessen. Adrian has been at the Hammers for four years […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Sofiane Feghouli was missing from training in Germany yesterday with a club source insisting he was injured and it is not a smoke screen to mask his imminent exit. Speculation says Feghouli days are still numbered at West Ham as he prepares for a summer exit. Stade Rennais are the latest team who are said to be […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
I sat down to complete what I thought would be a relatively simple task this morning – selecting the Hammers starting line up for next season – err wrong…it’s actually a tough old call. I started from the premise that everybody is fit although in the Hammers world that would represent something of a major […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Adrian is keen to leave the London Stadium with his first team chances limited following the arrival of Joe Hart on loan. The Spaniard has been at the Hammers for four years.
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
David Sullivan has made a claim that Javier Hernandez could be one of the greatest players to have ever signed for the club. And given the Mexican’s record at the top of the game it would be very hard to disagree with such an assessment. Chicharito becomes the 33rd striker signed by the club since […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Today’s fluff has got the skills to pay the bills Welcome to the Rumour Mill on a day when Real Madrid could complete a £161m deal for Kylian Mbappé – a player who has, to date, scored 16 league goals. They once got Ferenc Puskás for free. Anyway, this is where we are, although Real’s hopes of doing irreparable damage to the space-time continuum might be scuppered by Manchester City , who are preparing a £143…
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Dimitri Payet was ‘a flawed individual’ and sold because he was a disruptive influence on the team, according to West Ham co-owner David Sullivan.
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Chicharito scored 11 league goals from 20 starts in the Bundesliga last season for Bayer Leverkusen last season and overall he has scored 28 league goals from 45 starts for the German outfit since joining from Manchester United in 2015. For Man United he scored 37 goals from 49 starts and managed 7 league goals […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Chicharito all the rage in top scorer betting market in the last 24 hours. Since the news of Chicharito’s move to West Ham was confirmed, Oddschecker punters have been piling in on the Little Pea to top the goal scoring charts next season. Mexico’s all-time record goalscorer also boasts the fifth best minutes-per-goal ration in […]
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Posted on 26 July 2017.
Slaven Bilic has confirmed the ‘One out, one in’ policy for the remainder of the summer transfer window. Speaking on WHUFC.com yesterday evening he said “Now, something else can happen, if someone goes then someone will come in, but the majority of the team and squad are set. It’s exactly what I said at the […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
Slaven Bilic has revealed how two years of patience has paid off in spades with the Irons landing supertar Javier Hernandez. The manager is ecstatic over his arrival and those of three other top starts telling the official site: “I am happy that the deal is complete as it’s a great signing for us. “I spoke […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
A majority of West Ham fans have voted that Slaven Bilic’s new-look team are booked for a top ten finish which will carry them into seventh or eighth place in 2017-18. A ClaretandHugh poll of 2,239 fans saw 42.5 per cent (952) claim that would be the club’s finishing position at the end of the […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
I’ve reached the end of my tether with Andy Carroll. In 2013 we made him our record signing investing £15.5m in the striker, made him our top earner with a basic of £85,000 per week and an overall package understood to be closer to £100,000 per week. We have been patient, we have been tolerant, […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
Well well well, haven’t I had to eat a massive slice of Humble Pie! I admit that maybe I was hasty and quite angry over last season, which was shown in my previous article that the current board need to sell up and go but boy, they have well and truly mugged me right off. […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham kicked their pre-season preparations up a gear on Tuesday as they arrived at a training camp in the German town of Rotenburg. Hart and Arnautovic have linked up with the squad.
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
Andy Carroll is back in the U.K and is back in rehab at Rush Green training ground. The player has been noticeably absent in official West Ham photos and videos in Germany but Claret and Hugh have been told he is now concentrating on getting fit back in England. The news comes a couple of […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
David Sullivan has tipped Arthus Masuaku and Edmilson Fernandez to come good this season. And he has admitted that he has been under intense pressure to get the transfer window right this summer after last year’s horror show. He admitted: “Yes there was a lot of pressure but in Masuaku and Fernandez who cost around […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has talked about last summer’s transfer signings insisting two of them will still come good for the club while voicing his disappointment about the two strikers he took on loan last season. David Sullivan told Jim White and Tony Cottee on Talk Sport radio: “I like a couple of players we signed […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has admitted he knew Dimitri Payet was a flawed individual before they bought him but added he was a fantastic servant to the club for the first twelve months. Speaking to Jim White and Tony Cottee about Payet on Talksport this morning Sullivan said: “I think we knew Dimitri was flawed when […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
The Hammers completed what could be one of the deals of the summer on Monday, landing the former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker for £16million from Bayer Leverkusen.
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan went on Talksport radio this morning to speak to Jim White and former Hammer Tony Cottee about the transfer window for West Ham. Sullivan told White and Cottee “We have been working very long and very hard on them, eight days ago we had one deal in the bag with […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
Chicharito’s switch to the Hammers is understood to have cost the club around £120k a week plus add ons. ClaretandHugh has learned that the little Mexican has landed a deal which will put him in advance of the club’s previous highest earner Dimitri Payet with the bonus clauses. It has emerged from our insiders that […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
The perception of Hernandez – or ‘Chicharito’ (‘little pea’) as he is more commonly known – is of an old-fashioned poacher of a centre-forward. But can he find the goals to match?
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
West Ham will operate a ‘one out, one in’ policy for the remainder of the Summer transfer window following the £16m signing of Javier Hernandez yesterday. The Hammers have now reached their upper annual wage budget as well as having a full squad of twenty-five players. With the primary transfer business done the club will […]
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Posted on 25 July 2017.
Slaven Bilic believes the club now has enough strikers at the club and will not be investing in anymore. Diafra Sakho is now back in full training with the squad and “looking very strong indeed ” which looks set to give the manager another big option. However, Andy Carroll remains on the first team sidelines […]
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