New Hammer Sam Byram says he is excited by the opportunity to work with Hammers boss Slaven Bilic.
West Ham's £3.7million signing arrived at the Boleyn this afternoon after completing a medical which rubber-stamped his move from Championship club Leeds United.
And he cited the chance of working with the club's manager as one of the key reasons for deciding to move to West Ham instead of Everton.
“I spoke to the manager and he is one of the main reasons which attracted me to West Ham," said Byram. "I think he's done unbelievably well with his team so far, so I'm really looking forward to working with him and his staff.
"I'm unbelievably proud and happy to join a Club as big as this. I'm just looking forward to what the future holds and hopefully I can achieve things with the team going forward.
“It's a childhood dream of mine to play in the Premier League, so to have the chance to get into a team like this and I just want to get my head down, work hard and hopefully get a chance."
Byram also revealed that he was excited at the chance to play in the Olympic Stadium, in which West Ham will begin their tenancy from the start of nest season (2016/17).
“I'm looking forward to seeing the new Stadium in person," he added. "That was another big part in me wanting to come here. It's a massive part of the future of the club and I can't wait to see and hopefully play in it."
DS says: “We had planned to sign him in the Summer, but we were forced to move sooner as it was clear that Everton had agreed terms with Leeds to sign him."
As much as I'd like to include them all I hate that formation
3 at the back just doesn't work imo, not long term, feel there is too much pace on the wings in EPL sides to work efficiently
The wing backs are either too offensive and we get exposed or too defensive and we lose our pace and have 5 defenders on the pitch with a holding midfielder (or 2 in our case)
Let's stick with 4-2-3-1 it's got us to this position, just allows us to rotate and keep players fresh
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(That's for Roy, not you ;ok )
West Ham's £3.7million signing arrived at the Boleyn this afternoon after completing a medical which rubber-stamped his move from Championship club Leeds United.
And he cited the chance of working with the club's manager as one of the key reasons for deciding to move to West Ham instead of Everton.
“I spoke to the manager and he is one of the main reasons which attracted me to West Ham," said Byram. "I think he's done unbelievably well with his team so far, so I'm really looking forward to working with him and his staff.
"I'm unbelievably proud and happy to join a Club as big as this. I'm just looking forward to what the future holds and hopefully I can achieve things with the team going forward.
“It's a childhood dream of mine to play in the Premier League, so to have the chance to get into a team like this and I just want to get my head down, work hard and hopefully get a chance."
Byram also revealed that he was excited at the chance to play in the Olympic Stadium, in which West Ham will begin their tenancy from the start of nest season (2016/17).
“I'm looking forward to seeing the new Stadium in person," he added. "That was another big part in me wanting to come here. It's a massive part of the future of the club and I can't wait to see and hopefully play in it."
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BRIAN
22
Jenkinson Tomkins Burke Cresswell
Byram Noble Oxford Antonio
Carroll Lee
and probably hold our own against most teams. Add the British players (Randy, JO'B, Collins, Hendrie) and we've got a very strong domestic bias.
#WinWin
And that I used to sign him on FIFA.
Pards says he's a good-un, so his head on the block.
“We had planned to sign him in the Summer, but we were forced to move sooner as it was clear that Everton had agreed terms with Leeds to sign him."
http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2016/January/20-January/Joint-Chairman-thrilled-with-Byram-signing
Adrian
Tomkins - Reid - Ogbonna
Byram - Noble - Kouyate - Cresswell
Antonio - Payet
Valencia
3 at the back just doesn't work imo, not long term, feel there is too much pace on the wings in EPL sides to work efficiently
The wing backs are either too offensive and we get exposed or too defensive and we lose our pace and have 5 defenders on the pitch with a holding midfielder (or 2 in our case)
Let's stick with 4-2-3-1 it's got us to this position, just allows us to rotate and keep players fresh
Byram is just the Jenks replacement brought in 6 months early.
So, prob looking at this come June:
Adrian
Byram - Tomkins - Reid - Cresswell
Kouyate - Noble
Payet - Lanzini - Valencia
Sakho
Randolph, Collins, Ogbonna, Oxford, Obiang, Antonio, Carroll