West Ham manager Slaven Bilic is satisfied with the club's last-minute transfer coups as four new players arrived at Upton Park on transfer deadline day. The Hammers brought in Michail Antonio from Nottingham Forest, Nikica Jelavic form Hull City, and Victor Moses on loan from Chelsea, while Alex Song returned to the club for a second season on loan from Barcelona. "I think we did well with ...Full Story »

Hull's survival hopes were left hanging by a thread as Tottenham boosted their chances of Europa League qualification with a comfortable 2-0 victory at White Hart Lane. A ponderous match was sparked into life in the second half as two goals in seven minutes from Nacer Chadli and Danny Rose saw Spurs register their first win in four and climb back above Southampton into sixth. Hull's Nikica Jel...Full Story »

Hull boss Steve Bruce is convinced Nikica Jelavic can return to save his side from relegation, starting with Saturday's crucial Barclays Premier League clash with Burnley. Bruce insists the Tigers would not have faced such a nervous end to the campaign had the Croatian - their leading scorer with eight goals - not been laid low with a knee injury for long periods. Jelavic was on the bench for ...Full Story »

Nikica Jelavic should be back for Hull to face Sunderland after the Croatian striker missed the defeat at Stoke on Saturday with a flare-up of his nagging knee problem. Robbie Brady will also be out after picking up a calf injury in training that is likely to keep him out for some time. Long-term absentee Mohamed Diame (knee) remains missing from the Tigers squad along with James Chester (shou...Full Story »

Goals from Ahmed Elmohamady and Nikica Jelavic ensured Everton's festive flop continued with a fourth straight defeat at strugglers Hull. Toffees boss Roberto Martinez was looking to banish recent defeats by Southampton, Stoke and Newcastle but instead saw his team brushed aside by opponents who had won just once in their last 12 matches, with a late red card for Antolin Alcaraz rubbing salt in...Full Story »

Hull boss Steve Bruce has labelled Sunday's Barclays Premier League clash with Leicester a bigger game than last season's FA Cup final. The Tigers host Nigel Pearson's strugglers at the KC Stadium buoyed by their 3-1 Boxing Day win at Sunderland - a first league win in 11 attempts since October 4. That lifted them out of the bottom three and six points clear of the rock-bottom Foxes, but Bruce...Full Story »

Substitute Nikica Jelavic completed a remarkable fightback as Hull's agonising wait for a Barclays Premier League victory came to an end at the 11th attempt at Sunderland. The striker cemented a 3-1 victory in the sixth minute of stoppage time to extend the Tigers' hold over the Black Cats following last season's treble success against them. Steve Bruce's men, who last claimed all three points...Full Story »

Mohammed Diame's third goal in four matches and Nikica Jelavic's fourth of the season handed Hull their first win since the opening day of the season over a lacklustre Crystal Palace. Senegal midfielder Diame headed home Andy Robertson's pinpoint cross on the hour mark, settling the Tigers just when it seemed their dominance would bring nothing more than a fourth draw of the campaign, before Je...Full Story »

Hull manager Steve Bruce believes it is "madness" that Uruguay international Abel Hernandez cost him less than the going rate for a top Sky Bet Championship striker. Bruce has carefully built his Tigers side around a British and Irish core and, even when shopping for overseas talent, he has favoured the likes of Nikica Jelavic, Hatem Ben Arfa and Mohamed Diame, who all have considerable experie...Full Story »

Norwich boss Chris Hughton is prepared for Hull to boast impressive firepower in Saturday's clash at Carrow Road. The Tigers will have striker Nikica Jelavic in their squad following his move from Everton, and they also clinched a deal to bring in West Brom's Irish forward Shane Long on Friday. Hughton could do with such proven goalscorers himself with the Canaries on an eight-match winless st...Full Story »