Slaven Bilic named as West Ham Manager (09.06.15)
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Perhaps they were thinking they’d use it for a Jan bid for Carvalho? Oh wait
Haha what.
If a new manager was to start within the next two weeks or so, he will have enough time to assess the capabilities of the current senior players and use the January kitty wisely. so delay at this juncture does not make any sense.
It looks to me that Bilic has lost the dressing room - playing too many players out of position; playing his favourite players who perform poorly (Carroll) and thus blocking others; discontent (Sakho???); wages problems, higher wages to new unproven players (Arnautovic) whilst others do not get the same, and lack of nous and tactics - not sure what his formation and frontline is and no Plan B. It is hard to detect team comradery. I would guess that players like Reid, Noble, Carroll, Adrian. Kouyate are probably very influential behind the scenes and two Daves would have privately canvassed their thoughts.
I can't see Bilic lasting and if WHU do not beat Palace that should be curtains and Westley would probably be a caretaker manager, at least initially.
First rule every season at West Ham - get to 40 points
A half-baked Twitter rumour apparently supports this assertion, but if the rumour proves to be false, I doubt we'll see the 'assertees' bother to admit they were wrong.
The board were on the verge of appointing Benitez until Real stepped in.
How does that fit your cheapskate narrative?
All the way back to Beckham, van Nistelrooy, Riquelme, Henry to the most recent ones of Bacca, Carvahlo, Batshuayi, Iheanacho, Lacazette to name only a few.
Rafa was just another on the list of ‘nearly’ signings. No doubt they tried and all were close. The outcome though was unsuccessful.
They are either just incredibly, incredibly unlucky or lack the ability to get things over the line.
We spent £45m on Ayew and Arnie but £65m gets you Carvalho and Bats.....now that really is next level
Zaza couldn’t hit a barn door with us but he has 8 goals in Spain this season, the total amount we have this season ;weep
He is available, likely not too expensive, has West Ham ties and importantly tends to have immediate impact before trailing into struggling long term. As we desperately need instant impact he may be what we end up with.
The hope is that Benitez is tempted and uses the change of board at Newcastle to let himself out of the door, but unlikely with him doing well at present.
I remember the 2010-11 season when the board couldn't make up their mind whether to sack avram grant or not.We all know what happened there.?
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Problem is, and slightly off topic, but I don’t think the current chairmen can take us to the next level. I don’t think they have either the money, nor the professionalism for it. Take the Carvalho situation. We couldn’t afford to/didn’t want to (delete as appropriate based on which story you believe) meet the buy-out clause, and then got in a public slanging match with the Sporting chairman about who was telling the truth. It’s one thing to miss out on a player in the summer, but to then rule out any chance of signing him in January by engaging in a childish spat is not what I want from a board.
I do appreciate that they saved us from the financial mire and have put us on the right path, but I don’t think they’re ready to mix it with the big boys. As much as it pains me, I really admire what Levy has done with Spurs. They’ve got it right on the pitch, they got it right with the manager and they’ve got it right with the new stadium. They’re everything I want West Ham to be but it feels like we’re a million miles away from that.
As for Bilic, I really feel for him. I genuinely believe he’s trying his best but his best appears not to be good enough. He was the man I wanted to replace Allardyce, and I felt hugely vindicated after his first season. But, on reflection, that was a lot to do with the fact that the big clubs had a terrible season on the whole, plus we had the Payet factor. But even then, 7th was not as good as it could have been (that Stoke game ;weep ) and then we subsequently blew our chance of European football by (IMO) not committing to it properly. Last season never got close to the heights of 2015-16, but we found excuses with the stadium move, Payet-gate and the perennial injury crisis, but we’ve actually found a way of being worse this time round.
Sadly, this is the second season running where I’ve found no enjoyment watching West Ham. We appear to have no defined system, no style, no identity, no fitness and unfortunately that is down to the manager and his team of coaches. Of course the players have to take some responsibility, but ultimately it’s Bilic’s job to get the best out of them and, quite simply, and sadly, he isn’t.
Hart
Byram - Fonte - Reid - Cresswell
Noble - Obiang - Kouyate
Antonio - Lanzini
Chicharito
Adrian, Ogbonna, Zabaleta, Rice, Arnautovic, Ayew, Carroll
But I don’t know why, again, he’s ditched the back 3 when we started getting positive results playing it?
It just looks like he doesn’t know what he’s doing?
Dropping the back 3 model is even more baffling to me than the Antonio experiment, at least I could see why he was trying to turn this powerful athlete into a wing back it just didn’t work out because he’s a bit of a bull in a china shop.
Somehow we’ve got to stick with the CB pairing for a bit, try and get some confidence but Fonte and Reid don’t exactly set the world alight for me, they don’t look comfortable on the ball or passing. Ogbonna is probably the more technically gifted but day dreams like Tomkins did, bring back Ginge!!
It looked like a lack of confidence and very little movement in front of them.
What I think it does show is the failings of our transfer policy. It's all very well signing expensive players, but if they don't fit into the system Bilic wants to play then it's a bit of a waste of time. I get the impression that manager and owners are not singing from the same hymn sheet on that one.