Bournemouth (A) - Saturday 11th March 3pm
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Even if those figures are true that isn't much these days..
Then Fonte gifts them a second pen.
We did not defend as a unit all game and that really does need to be addressed.
I can see what Bilic is saying - there were some good things to take from that game.
Oh and can John Motson please retire, he did our game on MOTD and he was awful ;doh
I hope Bournemouth survive.
http://www.transfermarkt.gr/west-ham/transfers/verein/379/saison_id/2016
Sorry, £70m + £45m isn't much?
Who for?
Even accounting for the sale of Payet and Tonka, that's around net £80m on players.
If you are saying that £80m isn't enough to get us playing and doing better than the last manager's side, I don't get it.
I'm not saying we should shift Slav - quite the opposite.
But to lay the blame at the board for being cheap isn't, to me, a reasonable claim.
And to suggest that following that investment we are still nowhere near being better than we were isn't good enough, imo.
Look at other clubs, they have improved too, spent vasts amount of money. Palace spending the likes of 30m on Benteke. (Them another 50 odd million in Jan) The game has changed. Even the smaller clubs are spending ridiculous sums.
(We made an 8m profit in January)
Hence my comment we need to spend a lot in the summer and actually back the manager with funds
That's turnover, though.
From that analysis further down The club managed to record an operating profit of £31.5m excluding player trading but this was reduced to a more modest profit of £1.2m before taxation.
We spent about £70m on both summer and jan buys, no? So net spend would be more like £35m.
The top 6 this year are the normal top 6 and will probably be the top 6 for the next 10 years or so unless there is another freak season.
7th is pretty much "winning" the part of the league that we can hope to be in. Though we have the likes of Everton, Southampton, West Brom all really going for that spot. Which means that unless we have an exceptional season, we can realistically hope to finish between 7th and 11th
That is sadly the realistic view of what would be a good season in the current football climate.
People need to understand that 7th is pretty much an exceptional season for us and that is not going to be the norm for us for a long time.
And, in which case, why we should've stayed at the Boleyn.
The problem is that the cheap move, and money spent, don't equate.
I'd referred to this season (70m and last, 45m) in an earlier post.
Twist
Well, if letting him spend £115m on players in 3 transfer windows isn't backing him with funds I don't know what is.
If you are going to blame the stadium for our performances, that doesn't really explain yesterday, does it?
It was a rank performance, against a team that pretty much any other PL side would have beaten on the day.
We were miles off our best (far from the only time this season), and the players and manager need to take the responsibility for that.
The stadium blame was nothing to do with yesterday, but we moved to a new stadium and the manager was 'backed' with free transfers + loans. Whereas smaller clubs were spending big on permanent transfers.
Hence why my opinion the manager should get a bit of slack for.
It surely was a rank performance yesterday, who is saying otherwise? ;puzzled
Agree, both players + manager should take responsibility for the performance + defeat.
As does IMO the board for not backing the manager in the past 2 transfer windows (especially) 8m profit in January.
Where's the TV money and the sale of the Boleyn ground? 52,000 season ticket holders and we can't compete on a spending level with Crystal Palace?
Back to the game...
We were rubbish, Leicester is a big game now. Hope Slav makes some changes.
Coyi
Zaza money was never a pot ofgold sitting unused in the bank. It was a commitment to find it if we bought him. And not all in one go, but in instalments over a couple of seasons. And not necessarily the full amount - but would include add-ons which might never have been required.
So if he he turned out like Messi, we could have 'afforded' him?
Bet they're glad he was rubbish then! ;whistle
Carroll should be an impact sub. Noble needs to be phased out in favour of someone with quicker thinking and better positioning. Feghouli and Snodgrass are good squad players but aren't going to take us up the table they are low end prem lge players. Then we need a competent right back.
This season was always going to be tough, with raised expectations and a new stadium. Throw in the injuries we've contended with and the underwhelming performances of some of our new signings (who we were broadly excited with upon announcement) and our 'star' player throwing a strop, and it's not gone as we'd hoped.
People saying that we won't win again all year are, IMO, vastly overreacting. We are a mid table side. Mid table sides go through tricky spells, players lose form, you don't get the rub of the green, whatever. But it comes back too.
There have been a lot of individual mistakes in defence, which is hardly the managers fault, but yeah we do need to improve.
I think the winning goal showed Byram's' inexperience and highlighted why Slav hasn't trusted him fully. They break down the left in the 93rd minutes or something and he was up on the right wing. He should have been more cautious at that time.