John Howard

Left Midfielder - West Ham United U18
8 Jan 2027
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6 Edition

The West Ham United Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Sep 2026

The knee: John Howard out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. West Ham United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market7 Sep 2026

Jarrod Bowen hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what West Ham United can pretend not to have heard.

Market7 Sep 2026

West Ham United say no — this time

The offer from Manchester City for Kyle Walker-Peters was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market7 Sep 2026

Soungoutou Magassa’s move to Newcastle United falls through

The deal that would have taken Soungoutou Magassa to Newcastle United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to West Ham United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 10 gone

That is the business done at West Ham United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market7 Sep 2026

Giorgi Mamardashvili wants more than West Ham United are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Jacob Bruun Larsen turns down West Ham United

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Burnley keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Soungoutou Magassa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Soungoutou Magassa commits to West Ham United for another 5 years.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

West Ham United counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at West Ham United now.

In brief

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5 Edition

The West Ham United Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

The knee: John Howard out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. West Ham United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match29 Aug 2026

West Ham United run riot against Bournemouth

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market31 Aug 2026

Arsenal come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and West Ham United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market31 Aug 2026

Terms done: Joshua Ajala is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Walsall waiting with a shirt. Nobody at West Ham United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Pablo Felipe scores twice — 8.31

Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market31 Aug 2026

Athletic Bilbao join the queue for Taty Castellanos

Add another name to the list: Athletic Bilbao have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Taty Castellanos. The answer from West Ham United has not changed — yet.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at West Ham United

Jarrod Bowen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

West Ham United supporters have found a favourite in Pablo Felipe

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Pablo Felipe has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Jarrod Bowen at his very best

Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at West Ham United.

In brief

4 Edition

The West Ham United Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market24 Aug 2026

Giorgi Mamardashvili is a West Ham United player

The fee is $49.6M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Liverpool drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for John Howard

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. West Ham United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match22 Aug 2026

A hiding for West Ham United

Beaten 0‑4 by Arsenal, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market24 Aug 2026

West Ham United get their man

The chase for Lamare Bogarde ended with $20.7M changing hands and Aston Villa out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Ben Chrisene is a medical away from West Ham United

The deal with Norwich City is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A move Giorgi Mamardashvili would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Giorgi Mamardashvili is living that version at West Ham United, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

West Ham United spend $49.6M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $49.6M for Giorgi Mamardashvili, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Market24 Aug 2026

Business is business: Ryan Battrum goes

AFC Wimbledon paid $100.0K and West Ham United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Patrick Dorgu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief