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He can also create 2 or 3 chances each match.
Swap the stats and I am sure Moyes will be less critical.
Frustratingly, from what's been said we were only £8m shy of getting Darwin Nunez in January. Given his performances since January, we'll get nowhere near him by the summer.
I forecast at least 5 new signings.
"People tend to forget we lost Angelo Ogbonna at the start so all season we’ve had to work and play with that. Aaron is out. It gives us an imbalance of people more comfortable on the left side.”"
We entered the summer window with one left-sided centre back and one left back, and entered the January window with no left-sided centre backs and one left back, yet ended both with no reinforcements in either position.
The imbalance Moyes is complaining about is largely of his own making.
I agree, 5 is minimum.
That's 7 who are either leaving, are loans that are ending (not replacing Fredericks as I feel Johnson and Coufal provide adequate cover at RB) or are long term deficiencies in the squad, without even looking to upgrade, for instance, Dawson or Ogbonna who are both getting on, or Vlasic or Benrahma who really don't seem to be particularly rated by the manager.
7 as a bare minimum we need (really, truly need) without losing anyone from the squad we want to keep. How many of those are we likely so see, baring in mind the last 3 windows have seen us effectively add 1 player to our current squad (Zouma is the only addition to the squad in the last 3 windows that is both still here and still getting regular minutes)?
Given how Moyes likes to dither and G&S hate buying early in case a bargain becomes available late on, we could easily be extremely light of players for the first month or 2 of the season while any additions are bought in the last week of the window, brought up to speed and gradually (Moyes really doesn't rush many players into the team) incorporated into the matchday squad.
Really hard to see us not going backwards next season.
That’s five signings. It’s not a big deal. Everybody goes on about only having Rice & Soucek; how many games do they miss? None.
We need more than five. I make Buffy right; seven as a minimum. Assuming we activate Areola's option (far from guaranteed though), we still need a LB (Johnson can cover but we need a specialist), a CB (Diop isn't good enough), two CMs (Noble and Kral), a left-sided version of Bowen and at least one striker.
And that's also assuming we don't sell anyone.
Building a squad should be progressive. As it is, the last three windows haven't been good enough so we now need to binge in one window just to stand still.
Poor transfer policy from Moyes and the board, IMO.
We’re 6th in the league, 1/4 finals of the Europa, got to the 1/4 finals of the league cup.
Yeah proper “struggles’ there.
If you don’t see that as a wonderful achievement for a club like West Ham then I really don’t know what your expectations are tbh.
I think our EL progress has been a huge achievement. As has competing for Europe again with a paper thin squad. Quarter-final of the league Cup isn't that impressive in itself if I'm being honest, but the wins over City and United were good.
But no-one can deny that all of that has been without its struggles.
If you don’t see that as a wonderful achievement for a club like West Ham then I really don’t know what your expectations are tbh.
We moved stadium so we should no longer be classed as "a club like West Ham" whatever that means?.
I expect us to be doing what we have over the last few seasons, challenging for European qualification in the Premier League and going far in all the cup competitions. My expectations for the club were raised when we made the move and I can't see why I should alter them.
What has made a difference was Moyes and I doubt if the stadium featured in the list of reasons why he took the job!
This year's also been a slog. It's been kind of tiring to watch all these games, let alone play in, and some of that feels caused by things a lot of people were worried about in the summer and then January. Moyes was still making ambitious claims in January, which were always going to raise the hopes of fans. So there have been struggles there, even if the whole season hasn't been. I think for a lot of people, the frustrating part is that the missing pieces feel like they're fixable and we just haven't done that fixing and that's an annoying place to be.
We are still West Ham and we are still punching way above our weight.
What Moyes and his team appear to have got “wrong” is raising some people’s expectations.
You’ve only got to cast around on social media to see that.
Supporters ultimately backed the move because it was sold as the first necessary step to regularly competing with the big boys. To a large extent we've done that for two seasons now so fans have every right to no longer see us as 'little old West Ham' and expect more than we have in the past.
That’s what THEY told us.
Areola is the biggest miss, but hes bascially our cup keeper
Yarmolenko has underperformed for too long....don't think he's a huge loss
Noble will stay around the club, is a bit of a miss on the pitch but as he's staying we keep his best attribute, his leadership
Fredericks, he's our 3rd choice RB...probably bet that Ashby is likely good enough to replace him in the squad
Kral hasn't even been part of the squad, not a loss at all...may as well have Coventry, Forson, Ekwah etc.
I will miss Ogbonna, but it seems clear we are after a CB still
Feel we'd accept bids for Benrahma, Masuaku and Diop....again I'm not too concerned think they've had plenty of chances and haven't done enough
Also you gotta remember we are likely not going to be in Europe next year, so much fewer games
My point is they got lucky when they appointed Moyes and that our aspirations are very much down to him and not the stadium. He’s the one who has got a team playing so well that the stadium now feels like home.
It could so easily have been a disaster.
Just think back to the toxicity only two seasons ago. We’ve come a long way in two seasons and there’s still a way to go and no that doesn’t mean we’re “ little old West Ham “ but a team on the up , let’s hope that continues but still celebrate how far we’ve come.