West Ham reach Song agreement

“We are really confident that he will pass that and everyone agrees, football people across the country, that he was brilliant previous year”.

“We’ve done that in the two games we’ve had already and come up with nothing but it was important today we backed it up with the result”. However, West Ham head coach Slaven Bilic was left disappointed after his side could not follow up the win with another against Leicester, instead the Hammers falling to a 2-1 defeat at Upton Park.

“Sometimes that’s the player’s decision and we stand by that, so he remains our player until such time as another club put a bid in that we accept”.

There were plenty of good performances for the visitors but Howe was happy to sing the praises of Wilson, who penned a new deal at the Vitality Stadium before the start of their maiden Premier League campaign.

We just hope the medical shows [Song] is in a sufficient state for us to gamble.

Striker Mauro Zarate will miss the game against Bournemouth with a hamstring problem, whilst Diafra Sakho and Modibo Maiga are the only first-team strikers available for selection with Andy Carroll and Enner Valencia also unavailable through injury. By surrounding the referee you’re not going to change his mind, I was surprised (referee Craig Pawson) gave the free-kick against Tommy Elphick in the first place.

After a week in which they failed to land Barcelona target Pedro, who instead headed for Chelsea, Louis van Gaal’s side drew a blank and have now scored only twice in their opening three league matches.

The Bournemouth substitute’s finishing was more emphatic in the 66th minute when he restored their lead with a calm finish after some poor defending amid good work from Wilson and Gradel.

Bournemouth have spent less than half that figure and have retained most of the squad that won the Championship last season.

Adrian was unsuccessful with an appeal against a three-match ban after being sent off late in last week’s 2-1 defeat to Leicester City for a unsafe challenge on Jamie Vardy.

“He is experienced, what happened with Bournemouth in a couple of games can happen to anyway”.

Randolph was the goalkeeper for a Birmingham side who conceded 16 times to Bournemouth in three successive games, including an 8-0 loss last October.

A scrambling move for QPR’s Rob Green, a former Hammer himself, has been reported, but will likely take too long to see Green lining up in the West Ham goal this weekend.

“To me it was gone straight after the game against Arsenal“, he said when asked about the positivity gleaned from that success.