West Ham’s next boss

Fortuneseeker

Anyone who studied Eintrachts formation last season will have seen how they got the best out of Haller. He had 2 quick strikers up top with him, we have decided in the main to let him plough a lone furrow and wonder why he is getting disillusioned.

OutcastLondoner

How could we do that? Push Anderson and Antonio closer to Haller? But leaves our full-backs exposed.

ianbishoplegend

Masuaku- Haller - Antonio

Anderson in a free role behind them. Both would help the full backs when needed. Would be very easy to switch to 3 at the back also with Cresswell going inside. Haller needs the fastest most direct players next to him.

Bazshuayi

Ok, after that posting, I'm happy for ianbishoplegend to be our next manager :ok:

You can start after we lose to Southampton

#axe ready/papers drawn up

Bazshuayi

There's a piece on Ralph Rangnick via Sky Sports today. Now he would be amazing

#IMO

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11885133/ralf-rangnick-says-takumi-minamino-is-in-jurgen-klopps-mould-as-liverpool-close-in-on-midfielder

OutcastLondoner

ianbishoplegend said:

Masuaku- Haller - Antonio

Anderson in a free role behind them. Both would help the full backs when needed. Would be very easy to switch to 3 at the back also with Cresswell going inside. Haller needs the fastest most direct players next to him.

Yes that's what I'd like to see but that's a lot of work to be close to Haller and also track back deep enough. Cresswell is so easily exposed by pace, so needs cover. If Noble was more mobile, maybe the midfield could have covered it.

I'd like to see it but not sure it works. I think it'd end up looking like what we have now. Maybe what we can do is change what we've done in the last few weeks but push Anderson closer to Haller. Or put Anderson back on the wing and have Antonio in for Fornals (or maybe Snodgrass) and play the role behind but close to Haller.

mike

I thought cresswell was doing a good job marking pepe but when he had to go off, imo that's when it fell apart.
Yes arthur has more pace than cresswell but his marking is terrible.
I see arthur more as an attacking wing-back rather than a full back.

Whitehorsehammer

What I am trying to understand is why so many managers, including the very top ones, can have high levels of success and then suddenly it stops working.

It's happened with us, Bilic had us playing well, winning games then within a fairly short space of time it stopped working. It has happened to Mourinho both at Chelsea and Man Utd. Look at Arsenal, Everton and even, dare I say it, Pep Guardiola at Man City. It is happening to Pelligrini, clearly a very experienced and successful manager that in his early days with us had us playing some lovely attacking football.

Why can these managers do well and find it easy when winning but find it so hard to turn it around when it starts to go wrong?

Bazshuayi

Dammit! Could it really be the players? :hmm:

Lukerz

It’s usually when somebody at the top of the club gets complacent

steve

The tea lady got complacent :nonono:

IronHerb

Well who's that then Lukerz?

Whitehorsehammer

With the high profile of The Premier League, the scrutiny, the money I can't believe it's just complacency. More suggestions please.

BubblesNeverDies

Outcast said:
"Yes that's what I'd like to see but that's a lot of work to be close to Haller and also track back deep enough. Cresswell is so easily exposed by pace, so needs cover. If Noble was more mobile, maybe the midfield could have covered it. "
We must have the slowest midfield in the EPL.

ASLEFshrugged

The Daily Star says we want Poch, the Mirror says he's turned us down

The Telegraph reckons we could ask Harry back until the end of the season. That could be fun...

baracks_a_hammer

Harry would be box office. Deadline day with Harry and Rosie being interviewed by sky with the car window wound down

imagelost

Yes
Down bare bones
:biggrin:

imagelost

What does he maen

OutcastLondoner

BubblesNeverDies said:

Outcast said:
"Yes that's what I'd like to see but that's a lot of work to be close to Haller and also track back deep enough. Cresswell is so easily exposed by pace, so needs cover. If Noble was more mobile, maybe the midfield could have covered it. "
We must have the slowest midfield in the EPL.

I mean yeah, that's my point. I think Rice covers ground quite well but he's limited. But a dynamic midfield partner would've covered some gaps. Obiang and Kouyate, did that for us for a while, even if they were limited. I'd like someone like Doucoure (or if we can unearth the next Kante).

baracks_a_hammer

It’s a pity Pelle and Husillos didn’t think of all this when they let go of the likes of Obiang and edmilson without replacement and spent a huge chunk of their budget on fornals ((whose position wasn’t the priority)

OutcastLondoner

A decision that ruined the transfer window.

imagelost

Sad act act and Ginger

imagelost

Bazshuayi

:tumbleweed:

yoyo

If anyone remembers how Boris barged over that little kid while playing rugby , then he could be just the bully we need in midfield!

OutcastLondoner

I was wondering the other day what happened to that kid.

SuzanneClaret

Therapy

Bazshuayi

OutcastLondoner said:

I was wondering the other day what happened to that kid.

West Ham youth team graduate. Midfielder if I'm not mistaken :whistle:

baracks_a_hammer

So the rumours seem a little inconclusive about Pelle, save for the fact that he’ll be in charge for Palace. So what exactly do the owners plan to do with regards to potential transfers in Jan - hand the power to Husillos once again? They haven’t got long to decide.

They may of course decide no changes are needed to the squad

Yeoldhammer

Pelle bought himself time. If the club are going to pull the trigger it will need to be now imo, otherwise he isn't going at all.