
Joe Hart looking to fight off competition for England spot
12 August 2017
Some clubs welcome their new signings by having them sing a song in the canteen for their team-mates. Others have them dance or make a speech on their first day.
12 August 2017
Some clubs welcome their new signings by having them sing a song in the canteen for their team-mates. Others have them dance or make a speech on their first day.
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12 August 2017
Your Shout is back and this time we’re giving the fans an opportunity to tell us their predictions for our opening game of the new Premier League season away to Manchester United. On this episode Luke from the three Hammers, Luke Malden, Daisy, Matthew and Ricky send us in their clips and go into the […]
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12 August 2017
Joe Hart admits he would have preferred to find a permanent move away from Manchester City as he prepares to make his competitive debut for West Ham.
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12 August 2017
Manchester United have won 17 of their 21 Premier League home matches against West Ham with just two wins for the Hammers and two draws. West Ham have not won at Old Trafford for ten years since they avoided relegation thanks to the famous Carlos Tevez winner. Manchester United have only lost one of their 13 […]
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12 August 2017
Diafra Sakho looks set for a place on the bench at Old Trafford tomorrow as the Irons open their 2017/18 campaign against Manchester United. ClaretandHugh can confirm that the striker is with the 20 who have travelled to Manchester and that he is likely to find his way into the final 18. The Irons line […]
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12 August 2017
The Premier League has returned in thrilling style - but is this the best opening weekend ever?
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12 August 2017
Portuguese media suggest William Carvalho will travel to London on Monday or Tuesday to complete a medical and sign a contract wiH West Ham Newspaper Sapo.pt say that the Sporting midfielder is expected to travel on Monday or Tuesday to London, where he is expected to sign a contract with West Ham. He will not play […]
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12 August 2017
West Ham winger Sofiane Feghouli is set to complete a £4m move to Turkish club Galatasaray, according to Sky sources.
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12 August 2017
Sofiane Fehouli’s “will he stay or will he go” future at West Ham looks to have been finally settled. After several weeks of false starts the Algerian is finally on his way from the London Stadium and heading for Istanbul in the morning. Feghouli’s future now looks looks to be at Galatasaray who have been […]
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12 August 2017
Hammer Sofiane Feghouli has confirmed his Turkey bound tomorrow by tweeting “Tomorrow on the way to istanbul …. Inch allah !!!” Galatasaray are said to have agreed on a £4m transfer fee for the 27-year-old with West Ham. The Algerian joined the Hammers on a free transfer last summer from Valencia. His deal included a […]
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12 August 2017
At long last, we await the whistle which will herald the beginning of another frenetic experience known as the Premier League. I am sure that I share the feelings of all West Ham supporters for an exciting and more promising start in the first 6-8 games, setting up a potential platform for an unlikely, but possible […]
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12 August 2017
Terry Westley’s bright young U23’s were somehow held to a 0-0 draw in their first ever PL2 Division One game by last season’s Champions Everton last night at The Chigwell Construction Stadium. The young Hammers, who were strengthened by the rare pleasure of having 2016/2017 Hammer of the Year Michail Antonio in their starting Xl, missed an entourage of chances against David Unsworth’s men. The side were also bolstered by the return of young Spanish striker Antonio Martinez...
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12 August 2017
We face-off with Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in our opening fixture of the 2017/2018 Premier League season this weekend at Old Trafford. Bilic’s boys make the trip to Manchester after a relatively poor pre-season tour of Europe, where our only win came against Championship side Fulham in Austria. It is the second time in succession that we have ended our preparations with only one victory to our name, and the Claret & Blue Army who are making the 218-mile...
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12 August 2017
BT Sport is where the best in domestic and European football go head to head, and West Ham could be in for a great season in 2017/18. Well, at least that’s what BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey thinks. Speaking exclusively to Moore Than Just A Club, he is impressed by The Hammers summer business – especially the signing of Javier Hernandez for £16 million from Bayer Leverkusen – and believes the new signings can take the club...
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12 August 2017
West Ham co-owner David Gold has once again rejected any suggestion that he and co-owner David Sullivan are in the club purely to make a quick buck – and has hinted that the names Gold and Sullivan could stay at the club long after the current owners have gone. In an exclusive interview with Blowing […]
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12 August 2017
PC Andy Sheldon is the MET Police dedicated football officer who attends all West Ham home and away games. Ahead of the upcoming Spurs and Brighton games at the London Stadium as well as the whole West Ham season at large he is keen to get feedback from the fans that attend home and away games with […]
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12 August 2017
Slaven Bilic is losing no sleep over a new Hammers contract and in fact believes the club’s owners have already shown their belief in him via this summer’s spend on new players. With Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Marko Arneutovic and Javier Hernandez on board plus a strong possibility that William Carcalho will be following them, […]
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12 August 2017
Slaven Bilic says he is fed up with specialists and physios telling him about once in a lifetime freak injuries. Speaking Kouyate and Lanzini yesterday in the pre-match Press conference he said both could be back for the away game against Newcastle but said if not maybe the Huddersfield home game on 11th September at the London […]
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12 August 2017
The Hammers Chat boys have come together on the eve of the new season to give their predictions on the new season. As the excitement builds they are looking at such issues as who will become Hammer of the Year,where we can look for some overdue success. It’s a fast moving look at where we […]
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12 August 2017
Slaven manager has admitted it is not an ideal situation to play four games away from home at the beginning of the season but he will be more relaxed when he gets points on the table. The 2017 IAAF World Athletic Championships at the London Stadium finish tomorrow but it is estimated to take around […]
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12 August 2017
Slaven Bilic was quizzed about Carvalho, Jota and Adrian during yesterday’s pre-match press conference. Asked whether the club were close to completing a deal to sign Carvalho Slav answered: “I don’t know but I know he is a good player and a lot of clubs have interest in him since he came on, not the market, but the […]
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12 August 2017
With a team effort, the Man Utd manager believes he can repeat a positive trend from his past
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11 August 2017
Liverpool was never mentioned but it was quite clear that Slaven Bilic had Merseyside on is mind as he spoke to the media about Manu Lanzini. The Neymar/Coutinho development and speculation that it could affect our Argentinian has been in the papers for weeks. But David Sullivan has already told ClaretandHugh that a Liverpool bid […]
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11 August 2017
Slaven Bilic insists he is not sweating on his contract situation, even with it expiring at the end of this season and the life expectancy of managers as short as ever.
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11 August 2017
By Jack Lebeau Irons under 23s 0 Everton under 23s 0 West Ham U23s begun life in the higher division tonight with a 0-0 draw against defending champions Everton. We lined up 4-2-3-1: Trott Pike , Akinola, Alese, Neufville; Makasi , Coventry , Antonio , Samuelsen , Diangana, Martinez. I felt very sorry for Dan Kemp […]
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11 August 2017
Michail Antonio stepped up his recovery from a hamstring injury by playing for West Ham's Under 23s on Friday night against Everton. He is expected to be back in contention next week.
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