so they struggled there why would they do any better here?
amorim and frank have upgraded clubs
and have been a failure
so they struggled there why would they do any better here?
amorim and frank have upgraded clubs
and have been a failure
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Previous incompetence from Kenwright and Moshiri doesn't imply continued incompetence from the Friedkins.
So far, one would say their decision to bring back Moyes to do the job that needed to be done was inspired. So there is plenty reason to expect them to get it right when the time comes.
It may have been the way I wrote it. I have put my original quote belowi thought you said “ no invesment unless CL”
did i make that up?
The plan is spend what we did last summer each of the next 2 with youngsters like Dibling and Aznou. Loans will be provided to pad out the squad as required. I've heard the owners will not deviate from this plan even if we were to qualify for Europe this season. Moyes can aim for it all he wants as a personal goal but we would compete in it with what we have unless it was CL which would be the only reason for the owners to deviate.
So we will spend around 100-150m the next 2 summers as per the budget. Qualifying for the Conference or Europa will not change this as they don't generate the funds to justify it. Qualifying for the CL is different though as there is guaranteed mega money just for qualifying which would be used on the squad earlier. Will never happen anyway.
Thought his presser today was quite interesting not so much what he said but the manner he asked for fan patience and understanding due to a depleted squad. Seemed a lot more humble than he often does imo, I’ve felt he’s been a bit arrogant in similar circumstances before, telling the fans how it should be rather than asking.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
He'll buy some more patience with a 1-0 win tomorrow, by picking his strongest available side against Sunlun and getting through on pens.
Nobody is asking for miracles, here.
PercyPlant
Player Valuation: £15m
It’d be interesting to see reaction to any defeat and then say that no one is expecting miracles. This time last year we had 11 points less than we do today, look at the annoyance across multiple threads. How many points more should we have now (season on season) to make it acceptable so there’s no threads upon threads of moans?
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
Every single journalist we let through the doors knows the score. Prentice makes sure of it now as that's his job.
How many years of the club pissing on our heads have we sat through for the ECHO "journalists" to tell us it was only raining and we should all be delighted with Kenwright, Moshiri, Benitez, Lampard, and Dyche.
I won't read anything they write. They had so many opportunities to take the club to task over the many failings and they never did it. Just constantly putting out their podcasts spouting nonstop crap.
I wonder if there's any daft West Ham fans out there multi quoting people because they absolutely hated Moyes.
Like you they probably wanted Graham Potter as well
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
Every change of manager is a risk. I'm not sure Maresca was a failure, he won the conference league (which the Moyes enthusiasts consider a big success), won the club world cup and was in the CL places when he was sacked. He was doing a decent, if inconsistent job. I'm pretty sure he got the sack because of things unrelated to on field success. Amorim and Frank haven't had that level of success but both Man Utd and Spurs were in bad positions when they took them over, Man Utd in particular look like a basket case of a club, and sometimes things just don't work out. Look at Emery, very successful at Sevilla, had a rough time at Arsenal and then did really well at Villareal and Villa. Does that mean because he didn't succeed one time that he will never succeed again? Of course not, that's a terribly reductive (and frankly nonsensical) argument. Not changing things because they might go wrong is a terrible way to approach anything in life because literally every decision you can make has a chance of not going the way you want it to. The only way to win the lottery is to buy a ticket.
Daytripper
Player Valuation: £50m
Spot on mate. I remember his wife telling fans on twitter not to protest because then we won’t be able to attract players, knowing full well there wasn’t any transfer funds of significance to buy anyway.
What she was really saying was, don’t upset the club as it was . Don’t upset the apple cart.
But almost the entire forum was absolutely insistent that we were massively underperforming 12 months ago, and the board seemed to agree because they sacked the manager. Since then we've massively upgraded the squad and expectations have changed. It's not like there are protests at the game and loads of long threads about how we need to sack the manager and who we should replace with like we see fairly regularly on here, it's just people having a bit of a moan about a poor run of form, it's about the most normal football fan behaviour imaginable to be honest, why are people getting so precious about it?
You can’t possibly be telling me that winning the Conference League with Chelsea is the same achievement as winning it with West Ham United, SURELY that’s not what you’ve just said there.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
I am not too bothered by losing points per say. I am more bothered by the self-inflicted wounds from the manager (and recruitment). Tomorrow is another day. Stop being stupid and give yourself the best chance to "WIN"- not grind out results. Hubris will get you fired.
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
The board sacked the manager because he pathetically came to them with his begging bowl out telling them he couldn't do any better and threw in the towel.
They didn't sack him, he quit but he did it in a way that guaranteed his pay off.
