Sam Allardyce, who has just been appointed as manager of Sunderland, has hit out at the fans of his former club West Ham, saying they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that the West Ham way of playing is a necessity and that nobody can even describe what it is. As soon as I was appointed West […]
West Ham are lining up a move to sign former Arsenal midfielder Oguzhan Ozyakup from Besiktas, according to The Mirror. The Turkish international was signed by Arsenal as a youngster, but he never made the grade and was sold to Besiktas for a fee of €500,000 (roughly £300,000). Since then, he has developed considerably and […]
French publication Le10Sport are reporting that West Ham are one of three Premier League clubs – Arsenal and Manchester United being the others – who are interested in signing Ezequiel Lavezzi from PSG. The contract of the 30-year-old Argentine international expires in the summer, and all indications are that he’ll leave Paris. He’s been used […]
Reports have emerged indicating that both Aston Villa and West Ham tried to sign Croatian international Nikola Kalinic in the summer. The striker eventually left Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to join Fiorentina for a fee of roughly €5.5million. Kalinic will be familiar to some fans in England, having spent two years at Blackburn Rovers, before moving to […]
Former West Ham United winger Stewart Downing says the decision to leave the Hammers and join Middlesbrough was an easy one for him to make. Speaking to the BBC, the England international, capped 35 times by his country, said that moving to his hometown club to try and help them gain promotion was more appealing […]