The West Ham United Courier
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to West Ham United's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at West Ham United has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Nikola Milenković out for 68 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason West Ham United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cam Bragg is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at West Ham United
Taty Castellanos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mads Hermansen has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at West Ham United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match21 Aug 2027
3 matches without a goal for West Ham United
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match21 Aug 2027
Arsenal take the points off West Ham United
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Michael Roberts joins the West Ham United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Roberts is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Jack Miller steps up from the West Ham United academy
- Market Richard Atkinson steps up from the West Ham United academy
- Market West Ham United promote Oliver Green from within