Hernandez Signed !

Pearces_Left_Foot

Just watched a load of his goals and he is pretty good in the air

McHammer

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/10965252/javier-hernandez-chose-west-ham-above-spain-and-italy-offers

OldCastleSwift

Well that didn't take long

steve

;doh

Lukerz

Hopefully gets some mins today and in the final game otherwise he's not going to be able to start at OT.

OldCastleSwift

For those (like me) that get weirdly excited by squad numbers, Chicha will not be wearing No14 this season.

Got to be No7 then, surely ;hmm

IronHerb

Why's that Lukerz? He was playing Confederation Cup a few weeks ago. and will have been training with us for 3 weeks. He expects to play against United as he said he excited about it.

Bazshuayi

OldCastleSwift said:

Well that didn't take long

He's handily placed, neck and neck with Zaza....

Vorselaarhammer

He is in the match day squad today along with Lanzini Reid and ogbonna.

OldCastleSwift

OldCastleSwift said:

For those (like me) that get weirdly excited by squad numbers, Chicha will not be wearing No14 this season.

Got to be No7 then, surely ;hmm

Nope, No17

;hmm

grey_til_I_dye

Just that glimpse of him tonight showed he is class.

Yeoldhammer

eskimoking said:

https://twitter.com/coral/status/889880025637564416

I can only hope this gets sung at Man Utd Away and at the first game at Home against Huddersfield (I think ?)

McHammer

Just noticed on the OS there is a Spanish flag that translates the site i to Spanish. Is that new since Chicarito signed?

IronHerb

Yep

MrsGrey

I noticed that.

It's a good think imo. Ages ago I was saying they should have a couple of languages available (depending on the current scope of our international players) eg French, too.

It's not a big deal for the club, but something that (I think) will be appreciated by the wider fanbase.

Moore_than_a_nick

You may recall there was a Mexican journalist tweeting that there would soon be a second Mexican signing for the club. Well apparently it was him, not Jimenez. And he is writing articles in Spanish or translating them. At first the only articles up there were about Chicharito, but that seems to have changed now.

Moore_than_a_nick

Someone said we'd recoup Javier's fee in shirt sales to Mexicans. I'm sure that's true.

Moore_than_a_nick

Interesting article here about how Chicharito excelled in the 4-2-3-1 formation: https://thebusbybabe.sbnation.com/2011/3/23/2066554/4-2-3-1-formation-and-manchester-uniteds-recent-usage-of-it

Given some here have said he's too lightweight to play as a lone striker, I wonder if people think he could (still) be suited to 4-2-3-1 with Lanzini behind him (rather than Wazza). Let's hope when Lanzini and Antonio are back we see the best of Chicharito.

If we do have to play him with another striker, we'd seem to have to go back to the drawing board. Do we play 3-5-2, 4-4-2 or the diamond? If we play the 3-5-2 or the diamond, is there space for Arnie and Ayew, our two most expensive signings? Or even Antonio, our biggest attacking threat last year?