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To be a successful professional sportsperson requires an astonishing amount of self belief as well as talent and hard work, these are requisite qualities for survival in the cut throat environment of 'elite' football, especially when referring to the Barclays Premier League.

Hopefully Ronaldo signing for Manchester United will give the red tops something to occupy themselves with for a while, it is to be hoped during that lull that Hammers can proceed with acquiring their transfer targets, one is already having a medical, the other is just about to become 'firmed up' as ` result of Ronaldo's move to United.

West Ham United have been handed a favourable draw in the Europa League, the club has been drawn in the same group as: GNK Dynamo, SK Rapid Vienna and KRC Genk. The games are scheduled to be played from the 12th of September onwards.
Europa League draw in full:

Group A: Lyon, Rangers, Sparta Prague, Brondby

Group B: Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, Real Sociedad, Sturm Graz

Group C: Napoli, Leicester City, Spartak Moscow, Legia Warsaw

Group D: Olympiakos, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fenerbahce, Royal Antwerp