Alex Song - West Ham (loan)
[article=http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/August/31-August/Song-completes-West-Ham-return!#hyTCDPfdRYOdIBMW.99]West Ham United are delighted to confirm the capture of Alex Song
from FC Barcelona on a season-long loan.
The
27-year-old Cameroonian midfielder is already familiar with the Hammers having spent last season on loan at the Boleyn Ground from the Spanish giants. He follows Pedro Obiang, Dimitri Payet, Darren Randolph, Carl Jenkinson, Manuel Lanzini, Angelo Ogbonna and Stephen Hendrie in joining the Hammers this summer as the Club builds for the final season at the Boleyn Ground.
With 28 Barclays Premier League appearances for the Club already under his belt, Song is looking forward to the new campaign under Slaven Bilic.
He said: "I am very happy. For me it was very important to come back because when I was here I had a great rapport with the fans and the Club.
"It was a very easy choice for me to come back here and I'm very happy to be here.
"When I left I didn't know I would come back here. It was not easy but at the end of the day, the most important thing is I'm here now and I'm very happy.
"I feel at home, everything feels at home, for my family too, they're set up very well here. My kids are playing for West Ham academy.
"Everything was in a good place for me to come back here and I'm very happy to be here. It's a pleasure and it's like I never left here. I'm still here and I'm happy.
"This is a new year, new players have come in and we have the new manager. Everything is changing but the way that the Club wants to be, we have to look at the ambition of the Club and we have to finish better than we did last year."
Douala-born Song
made a big impression while on loan with the Hammers in 2014/15, featuring in 31 games in all competition and captaining the team on three occasions.
He
started his professional career in France with Bastia, where he made rapid progress to the first team, debuting as a 16-year-old in the 2003/04 campaign. Just a year later he
moved to Arsenal on loan, signing permanently with the Gunners in the summer of 2006.
Song made Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League appearances in his first season with the Gunners, despite still being a teenager, and following a loan at Charlton Athletic, established himself as a first team regular for Arsene Wenger.
He
moved on to Barcelona in 2012, having made 206 appearances for the Gunners, picking up a League Cup runners-up medal in 2011.
An all-round midfield player capable of breaking up play and prompting attacks of his own, Song added to his trophy haul at the Nou Camp, winning La Liga and the Supercopa Espana in 2013, finishing as runner-up in the league and Copa del Rey the following year, before returning to England with the Hammers in summer 2014.
Internationally, Song was
capped 47 times by Cameroon, finishing second in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations and featuring in the last two FIFA World Cup finals.
In January 2015, Song announced his international retirement, citing his wish to focus on his domestic career.[/article]
Victor Moses - West Ham (loan)
[article=http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/September/1-September/Moses-signs-on-loan#5h6tesj0arPXGkLF.99]West Ham United are delighted to announce that
Chelsea winger Victor Moses has signed for the Club on a season-long loan.
Moses,
24, makes the move across London to link up with the Hammers on Tuesday’s transfer deadline.
The
5’10 creator has
spent the last two seasons on loan at Liverpool and Stoke City and is delighted to have made the switch to the Boleyn Ground.
Born in Kaduna, Nigeria, Moses grew up in south London and
began his football career with Crystal Palace, making his debut aged just 16 in November 2007.
He immediately became a regular in the Palace side and played 69 games for the Eagles in all competitions before completing a
£2.5m move to then-Premier League team Wigan Athletic in January 2010..
His rapid progress continued at the DW Stadium, where he spent two full seasons and made 74 top flight appearances.
Moses’ form attracted the interest of
Chelsea, who brought him back to London in August 2012. He made 43 appearances in his first season with the Blues, scoring ten goals – including four in the Club’s successful UEFA Europa League campaign.
However, he was
loaned to Liverpool early the next campaign and played 22 games for the Reds, before
another loan and 23 appearances followed at Stoke City last term.
On the international stage, Moses
turned out for England up to U21 level, but chose to
pledge his allegiance to Nigeria in 2011, since going on to feature in his country’s victorious 2013 Africa Cup of Nations campaign and the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[/article]
Nikica Jelavic - West Ham (reportedly £6 million)
[article=http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/September/1-September/Hammers-seal-Jelavic-swoop#yf51vOkWTjzrIlp3.99]West Ham United are delighted to confirm the transfer of Croatia striker Nikica Jelavic
from Hull City on a
two-year contract, with the option of a further two, for an undisclosed fee.
The
30-year-old frontman completed his move after successfully passing a medical at Spire Roding Hospital – the Club’s Official Private Hospital – and will link up with his former national team boss Slaven Bilic at the Boleyn Ground.
Jelavic has scored goals in the Barclays Premier League for Everton and Hull City over the last three years and adds to a striking unit which also features Diafra Sakho, Andy Carroll, Enner Valencia and Mauro Zarate.
He told whufc.com exclusively: “I am very excited to be signing for West Ham United, especially as it is a big Club and I didn’t know until a couple of days ago that I would have the opportunity to come here.
“Of course it is always a target to play in the Premier League, so when I found out that West Ham wanted me there was no doubt that I wanted to come here.
“I’ve played for Slaven before for the Croatia national team and he is a great manager and a great man. I am really happy and delighted to be working with him and all his staff again.
“I’ll be joining a team that’s on a high after the result on Saturday."
Born in Capljina on the Bosnia-Croatia border, Jelavic’s
professional career began under the management of Bilic at Hajduk Split, but he moved across Europe to sign for Belgian side Zulte Waregem at the age of 21.
One season in Belgium preceded a two-year spell in Austria with Rapid Wien, where he found his goal touch to net 27 times in 71 league outings.
The United Kingdom and
Glasgow Rangers was the 6’2 frontman’s next stop, and he was yet more prolific during his time at Ibrox, scoring 19 goals in his first season and 17 in the first half of 2011/12, earning
a January 2012 move to Everton.
Nine goals in 13 Premier League games that season was a fine way to start at Goodison Park and he added a further eight in his second season with the Toffees.
January 3014 brought his move to Hull, but eight goals last term couldn’t prevent Steve Bruce’s side from suffering relegation to the Championship.
Internationally, Jelavic won
36 caps for his country and travelled to UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but he called time on his Croatia career late last year.[/article]
