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11 August 2018
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11 August 2018
Reece Oxford’s immediate future is looking uncertain with the club having received just one offer for the central defender’s services. Oxford is not a part of new manager Manuel Pellegrini’s first team squad plans with Issa Diop, Anelo Ogbonna, Fabian Balbuena and Declan Rice ahead of him in the pecking order. The young central defender […]
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11 August 2018
The 30-year-old Belgian has dropped from first to third-choice keeper at Liverpool in just over a year and is hopeful of a move to Serie A
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11 August 2018
West Ham have only recorded one win at Anfield in their last 45 top-flight visits (D12, L32), a 3-0 victory in August 2015. The last time before that was 1963! Liverpool were unbeaten at Anfield last season in the league (W12, D7), scoring 45 goals and conceding just 10 goals. The Hammers have lost their […]
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11 August 2018
I think Manuel Pellegrini will be cautious in setting up his team for the Liverpool opener on Sunday. We have only won at Anfield twice in 55 years and they were unbeaten at home last season only conceding ten goals. Yarmolenko is probably a doubt after suffering a hip problem and although he trained this […]
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11 August 2018
Odd things can happen on opening day which is why I look forward to Sunday with hope in my heart as the new Hammers go looking for a famous result. We long remember going to Arsenal and grabbing a 2-0 win but there are more recent examples of how the odds can be upset on […]
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11 August 2018
By Hugh Southon West Ham’s hopes of doing a deal on a new pitch surround have been hit again with stadium owners E20 showing absolutely no willingness to compromise at this stage. We revealed on Wednesday evening they had lost an expert determination after the current green pitch surround was deemed a hazard. Former Hammers […]
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11 August 2018
West Ham’s Sam Byram has returned to the Championship, with the young full-back joining Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan.
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11 August 2018
One West Ham fan dream came true last night as Manuel Pellegrini dined at his home. Hammers fan Jon Benjamin posted on Twitter to his 90,000 followers “A fabulous gossipy dinner at home this evening with my friend Manuel Pellegrini and our Chilean wives. I still can’t quite believe that someone I know so well is […]
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11 August 2018
West Ham captain Mark Noble has praised this pre-season under Manuel Pellegrini but has slammed last summer’s preparations under Slaven Bilic. Writing in his new London Standard Friday column Noble said “The pre-season organisation this summer has been different class, so much better than last year. I’m not going to blame anyone individually, that’s not my […]
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11 August 2018
West Ham Captain Mark Noble aim is for West Ham to finish in a strong top ten position in the Premier League. Writing his first regular Friday London Standard column Nobes said: “My aim this season is for a really strong top-10 finish and a way of playing which excites. I think we were developing that […]
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11 August 2018
Back in July West Ham ITK @EXWhuEmployee contacted me with an idea for a social experiment. He wanted to prove that many newspapers would print any transfer rumour without checking it out first. He asked me to choose a random player that might sound credible. At the time I knew West Ham were looking for […]
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11 August 2018
The Hammers brought in 10 new faces this summer as the owners backed their new boss in the transfer market and Pellegrini feels it will be tough to avoid players being upset by his selections.
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11 August 2018
He becomes Forest manager Aitor Karanka's 13th signing of the summer after being a peripheral figure at West Ham.
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11 August 2018
Nottingham Forest have signed defender Sam Byram on a season-long loan from West Ham.
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11 August 2018
West Ham have confirmed that Sam Byram has joined Championship side Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan. The 24-year-old defender links up with Aitor Karanka’s squad as they target a return to the Premier League after two decades in the second tier. Byram signed for the Hammers from Leeds United in January 2016 and has […]
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10 August 2018
Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats.
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10 August 2018
Mark Lawrenson is back in his predictable old routine by tipping his former club Liverpool to beat the Hammers on Sunday. There is of course no surprise there but the first fixture of the season is notoriously tricky as was shown when the Hammers put it across Arsenal at their place under Slaven Bilic. Lawrenson, […]
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10 August 2018
Hopes are high ahead of the 2018-19 season around Liverpool, and Jurgen Klopp's side looked in a determined mood as they trained at Melwood on Friday.
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10 August 2018
The Hammers brought in 10 new faces this summer as the owners backed their new boss in the transfer market and Pellegrini feels it will be tough to avoid players being upset by his selections.
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10 August 2018
The Soccer Saturday pundits have provided us with their Sky Sports Fantasy Football line-ups, but who they are backing to deliver this season?
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10 August 2018
The latest episode from the second series of our Transfer Talk podcast is here!
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10 August 2018
West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini admits his biggest problem could be keeping all his players happy after a busy transfer window.
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10 August 2018
So here we stand 48 hours away from a new season when hopefully talk of ‘fortune always hiding’ and ‘dreams fading and dying’ can be put to bed for a while! Instead we are considering that mythical ‘next level’ – one of the hardest scenarios to nail as it means so many things to so […]
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10 August 2018
Tim Sherwood would hardly be anybody’s first stop when attempting to get a considered view of West Ham’s summer and their chances this season. But the former diehard Spurs midfielder – whilst perhaps wanting to take a pop at his former north London rivals Arsenal – has given it large in terms of the boys […]
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