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Sam Inkersole

Upton Park remembered as Karren Brady fires warning ahead of Project Restart meeting

Good morning and here are your headlines for Monday, April 11 2019.

Upton Park remembered

With 80 minutes on the clock four years ago today, Winston Reid rose highest above all to get on the end of Dimitri Payet's free kick to head past a helpless Manchester United stopper David De Gea as the Hammers won their final game at Upton Park.

Since then, Reid has played 56 games in four seasons. West Ham have been involved in three relegation battles which they staved off the drop and are now in the midst of another.

It wasn't supposed to be like this.

Sam Inkersole casts his eye back four years and what has gone wrong since

Karren Brady fires a warning over Project Restart

West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has called for a level playing field as Premier League clubs prepare to meet again to discuss plans to resume top flight football.

On Monday, top flight clubs are set to discuss the latest on the Premier League's 'Project Restart' plans for the resumption of football, after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has delivered an update on lockdown guidelines on Sunday.

Clubs are waiting to be given the go-ahead by the government to allow players to start non-contact training, with some top flight sides, including West Ham, allowing players to work individually at the training ground.

However, Brady has delivered a strong warning about the next steps and what may happen next for clubs and players.

Find out what she had to say here.

Rating the Manuel Pellegrini and Mario Husillos signings

Former West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini and director of football Mario Husillos broke the club's transfer record three times in 12 months as they assembled a squad they believed capable of qualifying for Europe.

It didn't quite pan out last season as the Hammers eventually finished in tenth place having spent big on the likes of Issa Diop and Felipe Anderson, who was the club's record signing for just a year.

That was smashed last summer by the £45m capture of Sebastien Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt after the club sold Marko Arnutovic to Shanghai SIPG and then missed out on number one target Maxi Gomez. That said, the signing of Haller had put any frustrations over losing out to Valencia for Gomez to the backburner.

So, how have they all got on? We've graded each new face to arrive over the 18 months the duo were at the club?

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