Pre-season Schedule and games

grey_til_I_dye

Lukerz :ok:

As fans, we hope for loyalty from players, so I like to see the club showing loyalty to players.

grey_til_I_dye

Jack Wilshere to Joe Powell:

You know I'm standing in a hole, right?

IronHerb

Trainer with stopwatch:

Blimey, Jacks lasting well.

alderz

MrsGrey

Nice.

Better than getting your ear flicked

MrsGrey

Dekkers and Fab joined up with the squad in Switzerland this evening :wahoo:

MrsGrey

:nonono:

OldCastleSwift

Hernandez is all bit staying then. He's taking the No9 shirt next season, with Yarmo taking No7.

I'd have thought either would have been kept spare for our marquee striker, but evidently not.

Also, Hugill isn't going on the China tour. How bad must he be?! Our forwards for China are listed as Antonio, Anderson, Yarmo and Hernandez.

Yeoldhammer

Hugill doesn't even make the pre-season tour? "you hate to see it"

baracks_a_hammer

OCS

In answer to your Hugill question, if you go by the OS, evidently his touch in and around the green is pretty good from golf perspective. Sadly for Pelle and WH this isn’t what we are paying him to be good at.

Hamstew

It's ok we've got 4 forwards

baracks_a_hammer

How fantastic to see Reid’s name on that list.

OldCastleSwift

Hamstew said:

It's ok we've got 4 forwards

No Oxford, Holland or Silva either :hmm:

thornburyiron

We are not taking Fornals either so he won’t meet up with us until August

MrsGrey

thornburyiron said:

We are not taking Fornals either so he won’t meet up with us until August

Pablo Fornals, Fabian Balbuena and Arthur Masuaku have been given time off following a busy summer of international commitments with Spain U21s, Paraguay and DR Congo respectively, and will link up with the squad on their return to Rush Green on 22 July. :ok:

Read more at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/july/10-july/west-ham-name-premier-league-asia-trophy-squad#3BZXmrwUr2DMc7Ls.99

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Odd that 25 is the max capacity

You often see squads of 30/35 on these types of tours

Wouldve liked to see a few more youth players there

ASLEFshrugged

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Odd that 25 is the max capacity

There's only so many seats in business class and no one wanted to fly economy...

MrsGrey

Match day :wahoo:

Expat_Hammer

Such a shame that the snaky arnautovic isn't here, the cashpoint stadium is just so apt for him

Hamstew

West Ham attempting to live stream a game day :weep:

OldCastleSwift

Cresswell not even named on the bench for this afternoon's game.

Our first injury of the season :wahoo:

MrsGrey

:doh:

Oh, Byram. I'd forgotten about him.

MrsGrey

So, we're thinking the full 45 mins for the starters, then a whole lotta shuffling of the remaining players for the 2nd half with most getting 20 mins and a few getting 40/45?

It's less of a match and more of an open training session, really, at this stage.

grey_til_I_dye

MrsGrey

OldCastleSwift said:

Cresswell not even named on the bench for this afternoon's game.

Our first injury of the season :wahoo:

Left out 'as a precaution' acc to OS.

OldCastleSwift

Sanchez :wahoo:

OldCastleSwift

Adam said:

Is the game streaming now? I can’t see it.

I was watching it on the app. But it's crashed now

grey_til_I_dye

Adam - it's meant to be on Facebook, but no sign so far.

Try the links on the stream thread.

grey_til_I_dye

I know it's pre-season, and he's scored, but Sanchez looks like a defensive error waiting to happen...

OldCastleSwift

grey_til_I_dye said:

I know it's pre-season, and he's scored, but Sanchez looks like a defensive error waiting to happen...

He's been poor.

Oh, and Antonio :wahoo: