Slaven Bilic named as West Ham Manager (09.06.15)
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Does anyone else have a funny feeling that the Davids are setting up Slav to fail using crafty PR tricks such as giving the exact impression OCS refers to above?
Every Manager wants to improve his team if there's enough money to do so, The quote attributed to Slav about being happy with the team sounds like he just doesnt want yet another DS stupid bargan basement punt with money yet again and he's been trapped into this quote as a way of saying no to DS's New Year annual cowboy shopping.
I have never liked the way they go about their relationships through public quotes about their employees which owes more to the Trump style than to giving their manager, players and other employess genuine confidence. Bilic knows more about what the team can do than the massed family ranks of the Sullivans and Golds put together so I do hope this isnt the beginning of a Daves campaign on the sly to get him to resign by end season.
;hmm
But did anyone else see Roberto Mancini in the crowd last night.
But I still want Slav as our manager , even if it means the odd hammering, there is very few others I'd want instead of him.
My opinion is "yeah right".
"Happy with the squad"
This is the man who wanted Bacca/Lacazette/Batshuayi, ended up with Zaza, and now has none of them.
His favourite striker (Mr Sakho), who he publicly stated was a top striker on several occasions, was left seeking a move after the board publicly admitted our strike force was pants.
This is the man who engineered a record-breaking final season at the Boleyn, finishing two wins off the Champions League, and has now watched us get pummelled 4-1, 5-1, 5-0 and 4-0 in the past two months, because the squad has no depth.
This man said, a year ago, that Sam Byram has not been bought for now, but for the future. We only signed him to avoid missing out on him. He's now our only specialist RB.
This man also said, six months ago, that Fletcher was being signed for the long term, not now. He's now our first point of call when chasing the game.
This man also said, only last week, that Payet is our best player, we will not sell our best player and we will wait for him to change his attitude. That player was sold.
We chased Defoe and Hogan all window. He wanted one of them. You don't make bids for a player over the course of a month to then decide on deadline day eve that he isn't for you. You say that because the board won't pay the asking price. He publicly admitted on at least two occasions his admiration for both Defoe and Hogan.
"Happy with the squad" ;lol
His hands are tied, he's being forced to get on with what he has and he's doing the honourable thing, like the honourable man he is, and publicly stating he's content with that.
G&S need to sort out the last three windows failings in the summer. No more excuses please. Emenike, Zaza, Tore, Calleri, Masuaku, Arbeloa, Feghouli, Nordtveit, Fernandes...
They have been gifted a stadium at a bargain basement price, sold the old place for millions, record season ticket sales, the worlds 'in-form' player bought for a pittance, European football. It was all there for another cracking season. All it needed, was some proper investment. Not the investment they've provided to date. £30m odd and a pat on the back. Proper investment. The sort that saw Everton splash £30m on Bolasie and Palace £32m on Benteke. The onus was on them. They sold the dream. Not us. Not Slav. Not the players. Them. What we got was a summer search for 'value for money', in a business where players earn £100,000 in seven days! Value for money? ;doh
I do not want Slaven being the scapegoat and getting the boot in the summer for an under par season. You only have to look at Jack and David's twitter feeds. They're already lining Slav up against a wall. "The manager said, the manager said, the manager said..."
All IMO of course. I expect it to be challenged. ;biggrin
Bacca and bats didn't want to come to us - whether some more £££ would have tempted either, who knows?
The problem with the bacca one is they left it late by which time we were out of Europe and he probably looked at who else we bought and thought "you gotta be kidding"
To have had a chance they needed to go big and bold right at the start of the window - allegedly they offered eur40m for Lacazette - no-one really knows if he would have come but with that offer Lyon were not going to sell. They needed to offer a good deal more early doors to potentially turn lyon's heads and give them money and time early in the window to organise a replacment. They didn't and the rest is history. One early top notch signing and one or two others might have followed.
For the sake of brevity, put me down as disagreeing with everything that you said in that post.
Otherwise that's just like pressing a disagree button ;wink ;whistle
Plus 7 of my paragraphs are factual. ;biggrin
This should be a straight run off - the one with the most agrees, Luke or grey (with his awaited detailed response) is telling the truth. The loser is a liar who should hang his head in shame.
If you look though his Twitter page he was at the Arsenal game on Tuesday night too so I wouldn’t read too much into it.
In which case my response to your previous post is: ;hmm
It's not like pressing any button, imo. I'm simply saying I disagree with what you said.
We've been very strong in the past on not pushing people to respond beyond what they are happy with, or interested in.
You started with: So there is no point in any further response, beyond disagreeing with your unsupported assertions, imo.
You want to make stuff up with no evidence, that's fine, but I fail to see why you expect a detailed response to your flight of fancy.
I will say that I do not believe these rumours anyway but were they true and the owners asking if Slav has done well enough and is the man to take us forward, I would in his defence feel that anyone would be equally able to put the same question to them about themselves. I have no particular issue with the owners but the question would be just as valid in my opinion. Slav is not performing to top 6 standard but neither are they.
My personal suspicion if we are to have a change of manager is that it would be Benitez, he already has a line of communication open with the owners, has made sounds about being unhappy about the window business done at Newcastle and is highly likely to have had long enough to work out the behind the scenes issues that seem to exist at Newcastle and have dogged them ever since Ashley took over. There is a possibility he may fancy a move to London. A summer move if at all however in my book, and for me I hope Slav shows again he is our man (he dragged those points in our direction before Christmas despite confidence and moral at rock bottom) and once African players back, Snodgrass and Fonte settle in I think he will have a team that gives us something to look forward to again.