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Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
He’s improved upon Silva’s impending relegation, but he really has to do more than match Allardyce’s 8th place finish. Having said that, I don’t want the Europa League because it’s a load of crap.
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Are you saying we’re a poor side as if this is some sort of ground breaking news?
Bigduke1234
Player Valuation: £10m
Killed my libido that disaster, Everton that
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
If you look at West Ham's results, they're grinding out results against the bottom half with the occasional draw to top sides. They have a win against Leicester as their signature win, and otherwise have the odd draw against the traditional powers. Even if they made the Champions League, they'd finish bottom of the group.
We're regularly beating top teams but leaking points to the bottom half. We can compete, but we can't sustain the level we need to sustaim throughout the season.
One problem is in principle easier to fix than the other. The state of our club is better than the state of theirs. We're not at a place where we have the depth for consistency, which is sometimes leading to overtinkering in rotation by the manager, but this looks more fixable with a summer window or two than their situation does.
We're regularly beating top teams but leaking points to the bottom half. We can compete, but we can't sustain the level we need to sustaim throughout the season.
One problem is in principle easier to fix than the other. The state of our club is better than the state of theirs. We're not at a place where we have the depth for consistency, which is sometimes leading to overtinkering in rotation by the manager, but this looks more fixable with a summer window or two than their situation does.
I'd disagree pretty much totally with that to be honest. The fact that we've beaten good sides (kind of, if we include Leicester who aren't a traditional one and Chelsea who have had a weird season) is more just evidence that we can sit back and defend for our lives and sometimes get a goal on the counter/from a set piece. It's absolutely not evidence, in any way shape or form, that we're able to compete at the top. It would be much more a sign of progress if we were showing ourselves to be consistently better than all but the top sides. We're not inconsistent, we're just good at certain things and bad at others.
Essentially we are able to do to the top teams, what the lesser teams do to us. For a long time we have always been a bit of an island on our own, very much the 7th team in a league of top 6 and the rest.
Without getting too technical, we bring teams above us down to our level, and turn it into a bit of a lottery by ensuring it's a low scoring game. To be fair it's been quite a sensible strategy in such games. Long term it's not scaleable though. It's why when the likes of Allardyce moan about never being given a chance at a higher level, it's because you need a different skillset.
The performances that hint at better this season, are really more games like Brighton and West Brom where we clicked offensively.
TheSecondComing
Player Valuation: £35m
He did a job but he also the main reason why we have a cultural issue at this club.
“knife to a gun fight”
“knife to a gun fight”
Yep, exactly. Most half decent sides will win a game or two at home against the big boys, we've always done that as far back as I can remember. Putting the minnows in their place week in week out is how you show you're progressing as a side, from there you can try to improve to the point where you're closer to the best sides.
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