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Manchester United youngster Ravel Morrison has completed his transfer to West Ham United – in a deal reportedly worth up to £2m.

Whilst fans of the East London team will feel excited about their new signing, Manchester United fans, who had such high hopes for the youngster, will feel a tinge of regret.

Despite the troubled background of Morrison, he is still projected to become a supremely gifted young player, as can be seen in the video below.

Will Sir Alex Ferguson regret letting him leave Old Trafford?

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West Ham United are delighted to announce the signing of highly-rated midfielder Ravel Morrison from Manchester United.
Morrison, who will celebrate his 19th birthday on Thursday, is considered to be one of the finest prospects to have emerged from the Red Devils’ Academy in many years. He has joined West Ham on a three and a half year contract for an undisclosed fee.

The England Under-18 international made his first-team debut at the age of 17 in a League Cup win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in October 2010 before helping Manchester United to win the FA Youth Cup in 2011.

After making two further League Cup appearances this term and with his contract set to expire at Old Trafford this summer, Morrison has decided to seek regular first-team football with the Hammers.
“I’m really pleased to have signed,” Morrison said. “The move has happened very quickly and I’m looking forward to hopefully moving up to the Premier League with West Ham soon. I’m an attacking player and I’m hoping to get the fans on their feet.
“I met with Sam Allardyce this morning and he welcomed me to the club. I also played with Robert Hall in the England team and I know him well so that will be really helpful to have someone here that I know.”

SOURCE: Official West Ham site

Morrison, above, signs on the dotted line. Sam Allardyce has done a good bit of business. The young Old Trafford man was reportedly asking for an obscene wage from Man United, a salary that Sir Alex Ferguson was not willing to fork out. Now that the England Under 18 international finds himself at West Ham, we can only assume that he didn’t get the huge sum he was after and perhaps he was actually looking for regular first team football.

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West Ham have agreed a fee with United and are confident of closing the deal this morning. The move represents something of a coup for West Ham. Newcastle had an offer rejected by Manchester United earlier this month while Bolton had a bid accepted, only for the player to turn down the move.
While Roma were also seriously interested in the player, the opportunity to play first team football persuaded Morrison to move to Upton Park and the Championship rather than stay in the Premier League or move abroad.

Morrison’s contract at United expires in the summer and they have decided to sell him now rather than risk going to tribunal at the end of the season. United did offer Morrison a new deal which the player was still considering when West Ham’s bid was accepted.
Reports that the player was demanding £30,000 per week are wide of the mark and he is understood to have been offered less than half of that by West Ham.

Morrison wanted first team football but United felt his talent was better being developed with a more gradual elevation and he has made just two first team appearances this season. A frustrated Morrison missed training on several occasions and, with his contract running out, United gave his representatives permission to seek out buyers.

Coaches at Carrington rave about Morrison’s technical ability and spatial awareness and, when he gets up to match fitness, Sam Allardyce will seek to integrate him into his promotion-chasing team rapidly.

SOURCE: Telegraph

Ravel Morrison is considered one of the brightest young prospects at Man United but it seems that Sir Alex Ferguson is willing to allow the 18 year old to leave, having deemed his wage expectations has unrealistic. However, are West Ham really going to pay a salary that the reigning Premier League champions were unwilling to fork out?

Perhaps the youngster is really just looking for first team football and talk of obscene wage demands are in fact inaccurate? Well given that according to this source both sides have agreed a fee, the next step is all down to the youngster.

Man United are keen to get something for the young midfielder and they know that come the end of the season a tribunal will dictate how much they are due to receive for Morrison’s services, as he is too young to leave on a ‘Bosman’, and this tends to leave a fairly derisory pay-out for the selling club.

West Ham riding high at the top of the Championship and Morrison could well help to secure an instant return to the top tier for the East London side and he could then build on such a promotion and look to cement his place in Sam Allardyce’s first team plans.

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Sky Sports understands that West Ham United have opened talks with Bristol City over Nicky Maynard.

The 25-year-old has been the subject of interest from a host of clubs this month after City confirmed they wanted to sell him.

Maynard is out of contract in the summer and can therefore leave Ashton Gate for nothing at the end of the season.

With that in mind, the Robins are keen to cash in on him, but it remains to be seen if he will agree to any deal.

SOURCE: Sky Sports

Hammers boss Sam Allardyce is looking for new additions to help in his push for an instant return to the Premier League with West Ham and a move for proven Championship forward Nicky Maynard makes a great deal of sense. The Bristol City man requested a move away from Ashton Gate some weeks ago.

The 25 year old had been linked with interest from a number of Premier League sides, including Wigan and Sunderland.

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A further update on Ravel Morrison and Sky Sports sources understand the Manchester United youngster is closing on a move to West Ham United. We’ll have more shortly.

SOURCE: Sky Sports

There has been much speculation about Ravel Morrison’s Old Trafford future and now Sky Sports appear to be of the belief that the 18 year old midfielder is about to make a move to West Ham. The teenager is said to be out of contract in the summer and many reports have alleged that the youngster has been issuing excessive wage demands that have left Sir Alex Ferguson being open to his departure.

Newcastle United had a £1m, according to the Daily Mail, a bid rejected but perhaps West Ham have made a superior offer? Sam Allardyce’s Hammers side are top of the Championship and the former Bolton boss is clearly looking to the future and sees the England Under 19 international as a player who can offer something to the East London club in the long term, as well as presumably being of use this term.

Morrison is yet to play a single minute of Premier League football and that is reportedly one of the reasons the local born talent is keen to consider alternative destinations, clubs who can offer him regular first team football sooner rather than later.

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Talk of a possible Upton Park return for Carlos Tevez has been flooding Twitter this afternoon and it’s an issue that talkSPORT’s Ian Abrahams who tweeted on the subject earlier today.

This story is further expanded at Sportsmole.co.uk

Rumours are rife on Twitter that Carlos Tevez is close to making a return to West Ham United.

The Manchester City striker has recently seen proposed transfers to AC Milan, Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain fall through.

However, Upton Park has now emerged as the shock destination for the 27-year-old, who is currently in his native Argentina following a fall-out with City boss Roberto Mancini.

Bookmakers have also slashed their odds on Tevez returning to the Hammers.

“Carlos Tevez could be returning to West Ham – we’ve gone evens for him to sign by the end of transfer window,” Sky Bet announced on their Twitter page.

Now some may feel that a move to West Ham is unlikely but let’s face it, the Argentine’s original move to the East London club back in 2006 was probably even more of a surprise than any possible move from Man City to the Championship side now.

Roberto Mancini has stated publicly that Tevez has zero chance of being selected for first team action and given that prospective moves to the likes of AC Milan, Inter Milan and PSG have all seemingly fallen through.

A move to West Ham may be a win/win thing as clearly if the 27 year old doesn’t secure a permanent move by the time the transfer window closes next week then his presence at the club, if he ever returns from his AWOL trip to Argentina, may prove to be a distraction for the Premier League table toppers.

Then perhaps a loan move to West Ham, who are top of the Championship, would serve to remind the world that Carlos Tevez can also play football as well as being a potential headache off the field of play.

Tevez’s agent Kia Joorabchian has spoken of a possible temporary move to West Ham.

“He is a West Ham fanatic, that is one club that is very close to his heart but I think that would not be possible.

First of all Carlos is in a different position at the moment. West Ham are top of the league in the Championship, they have a good squad, they have a different objective. They’re in a division that is fighting for promotion.

It would be very difficult for Man City to want to loan him out because they would have to end up compensating a lot of the salary and why would they do that.” talkSPORT

Indeed. Well Man City may be prepared to cover some of Tevez’s wages should he join West Ham, in order to prove to prospective suitors that the Argentine striker is still a player worthy of meeting the club’s reported £25m valuation.

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West Ham have offered £7m for Rangers striker Nikica Jelavic, BBC Scotland has learned.

The English Championship leaders have been in negotiations with the Ibrox club for more than a week.

Rangers though, believe the 26-year-old is worth more and could hold out in the hope of an improved bid from elsewhere before the transfer closes next week.

Manager Ally McCoist wants any deal concluded quickly so that he has time to find a replacement.

SOURCE: BBC Sport

This is a fairly ambitious move for the Championship leaders to make but by all accounts Ally McCoist expects more for his star striker but are the East London side willing and able to up their bid?

The Daily Mail has reported that Nikica Jelavic’s father had claimed earlier in the week that a Liverpool move was a possibility and that his son would be very keen to complete a move to Anfield but as yet no offer has been forthcoming from the Merseyside club.

Jelavic has netted 17 goals thus far this season but has watched as his Rangers side have seen their big SPL lead clawed back by Celtic, who’s 12 straight wins puts them in pole position to take the title from their arch rivals, which may well act as an incentive to the Croatian international to seek a move South of the Border.

West Ham are top of the Championship but have notably scored less goals than fellow promotion contenders Southampton and Cardiff City and Sam Allardyce may feel that the signing of the 26 year old may help in their pursuit of an instant return to the top tier.

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West Ham have launched an ambitious bid to sign Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou on loan.
Manager Sam Allardyce has gone cool on Rangers striker Nikica Jelavic after their £6m bid was rejected and is hopeful that Chelsea will allow them to take Kalou instead.

SOURCE: Daily Mail

This short term move may appeal to all concerned. Salomon Kalou is little more than a bit part player at Chelsea and the Ivory Coast international can not be keen at being so low down on Andre Villas-Boas’s pecking order for much longer. The likes of Fernando Torres, Didier Drogba, Juan Mata and Daniel Sturridge are all ahead of the 26 year old in the starting eleven queue and with a permanent move away from the West London club hamstrung by his involvement in the African Cup of Nations, a loan move would appear to be the next best option available to the former Feyenoord man.

Kalou has struggled to persuade a raft of Chelsea manager’s of his ability during his five and a half years at the club but his first team chances have taken an all time low this term with the adaptable attacker managing just two Premier League starts this term.

West Ham are riding high at the top of the Championship but Sam Allardyce may well believe his Upton Park side needs some added fire-power, after all whilst the Hammers have been excellent defensively they have managed a total of 43 goals in 27 league games this season, less than their nearest rivals Southampton and Cardiff City.

The fact that the loan move would not cause too much of an upheaval for Kalou and would help secure regular first team football that could attract prospective suitors makes such a move something of a win/win thing.

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