17 February 2016
Former West Ham transfer, Burak Yilmaz linked with the Hammers in the January transfer window has become the latest footballer to move to China. The experienced Galatasaray striker officially completed his move to Beijing Guoan today, following a four-year stay with the Turkish team. Galatasaray previously claimed that West Ham offered €5m (£3.8m) for the […]
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17 February 2016
David Gold’s hopes that Andy Carroll will be involved in Sunday’s game at Backburn Rovers have been dashed with the striker ruled out with yet another injury. This time it’s an adductor injury whilst according to Head medic Stijn Vandenbroucke Enner Valencia won’t make it as he suffered an ankle injury against Norwich. However, Manuel Lanzini has […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Double injury blow for Irons
17 February 2016
Exclusive West Ham are hoping the Martin Samuelsen will be ready to become a key member of the first team squad next season. Although the teenager has years in front of him his progress at Peterborough has excited the club ho believe he could well be ready to stake his claim next season. Although the […]
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17 February 2016
In my opinion, I think it would be a bad move for the club to let Andy Carroll go this summer. We all know he has had his injury problems, but if he is managed well, as Sir Slaven seems to want to do, he can be a vital member of our starting XI in
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17 February 2016
Former Hammer Jack Collison has said that Mark Noble’s call up for England should be a no brainer and says if he isn’t called up there is definitely something going on. Speaking to MooreThanJustaPodcast as part of the Claret And Hugh internet series, Jack told the West Ham podcast: “Nobes has been fantastic, he has probably […]
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17 February 2016
Tony Cottee is thrilled with the Dimitri Payet deal declaring “it’s a huge statement of intent by the board.” And the former striker said: ” There a lot of football supporters that complain about the huge wages that players get these days, but I can’t imagine any West Ham fan moaning about the salary of Dimitri […]
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17 February 2016
Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United will reportedly go head-to-head to sign Marseille striker Michy Batshuayi this summer.
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17 February 2016
Mark Noble is on target to break a new West Ham record for the largest ever attendance of a Hammers testimonial match. We understand that very few tickets remain for the match in honour of Nobes on the 28th March and the game looks set to sell out completely. Our source close to the ticket […]
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17 February 2016
Sky Sports football pundit Paul Merson has given us his thoughts on the race for the PFA Fans' Player of the Month award for February.
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17 February 2016
Slaven Bilic has to decide whether to retain Darren Randolph in goal for the visit to Blackburn Rovers this weekend and whether the No 2 keeper keeps his place beyond that should we progress. ClaretandHugh is currently running a poll on the issue @http://www.claretandhugh.info/poll-should-randolph-retain-his-place-for-fa-cup-run/ Here’s the early feedback from readers: O Randolph should keep the […]
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17 February 2016
David Sullivan has joined his co chairman David Gold in paying his personal tribute to the Irons fans. The fans have astonishingly snapped up the entire 7,200 tickets allocated by Blackburn for the fifth round FA Cup clash this weekend. And after DG had paid a massive tribute to them, Sullivan told the official site: […]
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17 February 2016
Andy Carroll could be recalled to lead the line against Blackburn Rovers in Sunday’s FA Cup Tie as the boss weighs his options for the weekend. Co chairman David Gold tweeted earlier today that the player was available for the game declaring:” Andy is fit and I expect him to play against Blackburn.” The Irons […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Slav weighs AC/Lanzini options
17 February 2016
West Ham trio Dimitri Payet, Slaven Bilic and Adrian, alongside the Moore Family Foundation project, have been nominated for awards at the 2016 London Football Awards, which won’t come as a surprise to many. Following an incredible season for the Hammers so far, the awards evening could see West Ham collect three of the eight
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17 February 2016
The FA Cup has become of the utmost importance to us Hammers this year but ClaretandHugh FB member CAROL COMBES fears that Football Association suggestions to turn it into a midweek competition with no replays will harm it irreparably. She declares: “It’s not about the football…it’s about the money.” Remember the F.A. Cup? That […]
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17 February 2016
Darren Randolph is set for another FA Cup outing against Blackburn Rovers but the ‘Adrian pressure’ is growing on boss Slaven Bilic. Randolph has been quite sensational so far and looked the equal of the No 1 on his FA Cup excursions but ClaretandHugh understands that the boss is having to think about his involvement […]
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17 February 2016
Before his career began in east London, Emmanuel Emenike had become entangled in several extraordinary events, not least being thrown in jail after being accused of match-fixing in Turkey.
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17 February 2016
You really do have to hand it to our fans. Once again they have shown themselves to be the most devoted in the land as FA Cup weekend approaches at Blackburn Rovers. This is a game being shown live on the box yet every one of the 7,200 tickets for the fifth round game has […]
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16 February 2016
Claret and Hugh understands the club are looking into the possibility of staging an England XI v Germany XI match at the Boleyn Ground before the season ends to commemorate the contribution Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst made in winning the World Cup in 1966 fifty years ago. A crowd of 93,000 spectators – […]
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16 February 2016
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble is in the Sky Spors Fantasy Football Club studio this week – and you can be a part of the show and meet the skipper in person. Noble, who has made over 300 appearances for the Hammers, will join Paul Merson and Max Rushden to talk about his time at the […]
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16 February 2016
West Ham has sold all 7,200 tickets for Ewood park this Sunday. Son of the chairman, David Sullivan Junior confirmed the news this evening on twitter by saying “We’ve sold out 7,200 ticket allocation for Blackburn, 5 days in advance. Bare in mind it’s a 4/5 hour trip and on TV. Best fans going ⚒” […]
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16 February 2016
The most astute of West Ham observers have noticed a problem seen over the past month or so, which is our inability to start the game with a real intent of gaining control of the game and scoring early goals. I agree that we have had a recent problem of slow starts in the first
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16 February 2016
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble is in The Fantasy Football Club studio this week - and you can be a part of the show.
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16 February 2016
No Giggs wonder goal, no Ronnie Radford, no Merseyside 4-4 classic - what if FA Cup replays never existed?
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16 February 2016
ClaretandHugh has again been assured this afternoon that reports of Nikicia Jelavic’s transfer to China nrtting the club a transfer fee of £4 million are false. Various media outlets have claimed the Hammers sold the Croatian for £4 million but that was rubbished by a highly placed source at Upton Park. Such a fee would […]
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