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We are not an attractive proposition for so called top managers and Pelle was obtained while he was out to grass in China.
I’m in my seventies and all the time I’ve been supporting them we’ve had a bigger reputation for being a soft touch than for playing attractive football. How many times do we crop up in stats for someone scoring more goals against us than any other team or losing points from winning positions.
Even Greenwood recognised it and bought John Cushley to, as he put it, add some steel to the defence. However if you remember him he was so bow legged he could be nutmegged standing to attention.
No idea how accurate it is, but there was a suggestion Moyes wanted a bigger say re: transfers. I don't mind that if it is true, and if it is code for "I'm not having the Sullivans playing football manager with my squad," then I love it.
https://theathletic.com/1494456/2019/12/30/swapping-pellegrini-for-moyes-alone-wont-solve-west-hams-problems-the-structure-of-the-club-is-flawed/?source=shared-article
I thought this was a really good article on the structural problems in the club. The way it’s run means a manager change leads to complete overhaul and they’ve made a mistake again by appointing a manager because a director of football who can plan for the club.
I’m not sure DoFs are always needed but I think or owners have shown they’re not up to the task of planning our future.
As underwhelming as this appointment is,this is my club, not Sullivan’s,Gold’s or Brady’s and will be ‘til the day I shuffle of, so I will continue to feel the highs of the odd win against a top team and the lows of yet another 4th round exit against the likes of Newport.
So we are where we are, good luck to Moyes and I hope he gets me more highs than lows.
But if it turns out I am not I will mod this thread to make it look like I am :biggrin:
According to the Express he wants to bring Stuart Pearce in as assistant along with Alan Irvine (ex-manager PNE, Wednesday, WBA and Norwich) and Billy McKinlay (was with Moyes at Real Sociedad, Sunderland and us)
There's no suggestion he did anything wrong, either by club rules or by the law. It was an accident.
Although dressing as a snowman may count as a crime against fashion...
The thought of angry Scots and a ‘not pleased’ Pearce waiting for the players fills me with joy :devil: :biggrin:
All his backroom staff have gone now which was to be expected
Or maybe they already have, say, Rafa lined up at the end of the season but aren’t telling anyone?
What will they do in the summer if we finish say on 43 points after a mixed bag of results and performances and he has one year left?
By reprimanded I meant given a right rollicking as he was on his way to the team hotel and in the state we are in if he’d been hurt, given that he’s been our best player recently, could have had serious consequences.