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So this season isn’t really going to plan, is it? It’s still early days but the signs aren’t great. Lacklustre performances, several key players out injured and defensive calamities – just where will it end? Hopefully it’ll end today, particularly after the confidence boosting last-gasp victory over Accrington Stanley in the EFL Cup earlier this

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West Ham are considering a sensational January raid for Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas, according to MirrorFootball. Slaven Bilic added 13 new players to the squad over the summer, most of them midfielders of attacking players, so it’s not yet clear why he has already set his sights on yet another midfield man. However, the report

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The left-back position is our most heavily affected area in the team with regards to injuries. Aaron Cresswell is on the comeback trail but still a few weeks away. His progression has come at a time where his back-up, Arthur Masuaku is the recent casualty. I’m still unsure on Arthur, I think he has a

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It has been a bad start to the season, I get that, but fans calling Bilic to be sacked are crazy. A massive overreaction. Is everyone forgetting last season? We finished 7th in the league, beating Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool (three times) and Man United in the last ever game at the Boleyn. We

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The EFL cup game at home to Accrington Stanley has become the biggest game for West Ham this season. The way the team is performing, we could be open to one of the biggest League Cup upsets in history, especially in our first season in the London Stadium. Accrington Stanley are sitting 11th in League

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There is no doubt that without the two Davids, our precious club would not exist today. The hard work started from day one trying to get us out of the debt created by a worldwide recession where our former Icelandic owners bankruptcy. They secured our financial status by acquiring the London Stadium for the next 99

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Wow. Not exactly the away trip I remember from last season. One being class, one being disheartening. The West Ham way, right? A game that saw us dominate the stats, having over 70% of the possession and being the better team, we still managed to concede four sloppy goals, which now makes it 13 conceded

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The less said about last weekend the better. We all know it was a shambles and hugely disappointing, but we move on. This week we have an opportunity to make amends and what better chance than to visit a struggling West Brom side who’s fans were booing Tony Pulis last week – and he looks very

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After a tedious week of negativity surrounding our new stadium, it is time to move on, starting by bringing three points back with us from the Hawthorns. I am not going to comment on much surrounding this past week but instead focus more on the game and what we can do to replicate our success against

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Key players Aaron Cresswell, Andre Ayew and Andy Carroll are making good progress in their fight for fitness, according to the club’s official website. Cresswell and Ayew are still not expected to make their return to first team action for months yet, but the club’s Head of Medical Sports Science Stijn Vandenbroucke has given fans

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When I was a kid, I fell in love with West Ham. Before I even started to think about kissing girls, they were already and forever relegated to second in my infatuation, behind my beloved club. It wasn’t the performances on the pitch (not in the era of Morley and then Chapman as our strikers),

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Following all the issues experienced inside the London Stadium against Watford on Saturday, one of the biggest talking points was the decision not to have a single police officer on duty inside the ground. Unlike the Boleyn Ground, where there were hundreds of officers clearly in sight of the crowd, the London Stadium is only governed

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Mark Noble has called for calm following the club’s disappointing start to the 16/17 season. After the success of last season, many of us have been scratching our heads at what has been an unexpected beginning to this term. After our Europa League elimination at the hands of Astra Giurgu for the second successive season,

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Arthur Masuaku’s £6.2m transfer to West Ham this summer doesn’t appear to have been as squeaky clean as the club initially thought, as reported by MailOnline. According to the report, the club have launched an investigation into his move from Olympiacos as they are concerned they have overpaid by almost £1m for the left-back. They have

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David Gold has reaffirmed his desire to see thousands of West Ham supporters on their feet in the Olympic Stadium in designated safe standing areas. But in an exclusive interview with Blowing Bubbles Monthly the co-chairman said the club needs to show the stadium is safe and supporters aren’t being anti-social. “Don’t get me wrong,

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With so many players returning from injury, we should finally start seeing just how good we can be this season. Of course, last season we were superb, but we’re yet to really witness any of that this term. The international break came just at the right time for us and gave the crocked players a

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After a boring international break, the Premier League returns and, along with that, several of our key players are back and ready to replicate their form from last season. We host Watford at the London Stadium on Saturday and there’s no reason why shouldn’t be expecting to come away with all three points – we’re

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Injuries to key players have blighted the start of our season. Almost every key man you can think of had an injury of some kind during the opening few weeks of the new campaign, but now it looks as if we’ve put those issues behind us. The international break came at the right time for

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At last the transfer window is over, the international break is behind us and now we can get back to more important business – Premier League football. It could be said that the international break came at the right time for us. With so many key players injured for the opening three games of the

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We’re desperately waiting for Dimitri Payet to return to the starting XI this season. After an extended break following Euro 2016 and then a niggling injury, we’ve only been limited to about 30 minutes of Payet in claret and blue so far this term. But he is expected to return to Slaven Bilic’s starting XI

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In a brand new daily feature we’re launching on WestHamWorld.co.uk, let’s take a brief look at the day’s big West Ham stories… What could’ve been? – One of the biggest stories to have broken over the past 24 hours is Sam Allardyce’s claims that he could’ve signed Leicester’s Jamie Vardy when he was West Ham manager.

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It’s obvious that the first few signings we made in the summer were with Europa League football in mind – you need a squad if you’re to have any chance of being successful in Europe and domestically. But having failed to reach the group stages of the competition, Slaven Bilic now finds himself with something

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Transfer deadline day has now passed and we now know what our strike force is for the season, but how many goals should we expect from our players from the remaining fixtures in the league? I’ve got my calculator back out from the drawer and I have come up with these interesting stats based on

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So Enner Valencia has left the club and it’s a real shame it didn’t work out for him. Having signed for £12m from Pachuca two summers’ ago, we can ultimately count on one hand how many times he really made a difference on the pitch. That’s not necessarily his fault, though. The Ecuador international always

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A World Cup winning defender is due to have a medical ahead of a move to West Ham, according to the club’s official site. The Hammers are in the market for a right-back as the final hours of the summer transfer window wind down, and the club have confirmed a right-back is set to undergo

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