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15 Jan 2025 16:29:31
l Luis Guilherme off to Saudiit looks like. Very very lucky to get our money back. Potter obviously doesn't fancy him. Another iffy Steidten buy
1.) 15 Jan 2025 17:01:32
Yup, money back, on Guilherme, is very unlikely, just underlines previous. Comments I made earlier re Steidten, he’s been devalued, /// Sullivan quite rightly and to give him his due, wants every player on the bench, every player in squad to be able to play in the first team end of story, no more bench warmers, no more Ings and Cornet, (two players bought by Mr Moyes, ) this is good move, As you know from November, we are linked with three Chelsea players, we can only loan one Disasi, Dews Hall, Carney, Chelsea want deals, for, all three, what are we going to do, Carney maybe dry loan to BVB, gives us a chance for him in the summer? Guilherme I am not in the least surprised, poor buy, poor reports on him, first loss, best loss, get rid if possible, correct move, Potter wants a proper squad, this is the way to go about it, injuries and suspensions. Come along, never be any different, going forward, to next season, we don’t want a bench like last night, it was shocking
2.) 15 Jan 2025 17:22:33
The bench is hardly any different to what it was last season on numerous occasions under Moyes. I’m not saying that is good, it isn’t, but it isn’t a new thing and we did have at least 5 players out injured yesterday
3.) 15 Jan 2025 17:52:07
I think I'm finally starting to trust our managers decision making. He is building us to compete at the top in the future so I'm really hopeful of a bright future
4.) 15 Jan 2025 17:53:35
Exactly, it was no good last year either, that’s the point, WH have at last twigged that a lot of games, can be won from the bench, but you need a proper squad to be able to pull it off, and a proper bench creates competition which we havnt got
5.) 15 Jan 2025 20:48:09
It seems to me that the club will get something in this window to see us to the end of the season to ensure survival which we will easily do in my opinion. Then at the end of the season that will be when the proper rebuild begins. We need new players in nearly every position. We was stronger when we had the likes of Fornals on the bench, I miss that guy!
6.) 15 Jan 2025 22:17:37
Fornals could play anywhere across the midfield and pop up with the occasional goal. Still, he’s the past. Just got to move on.
07 Jan 2025 21:14:04
Looks like Potter wants Dan Ashworth as Sporting Director, which some news articles are saying, they're also saying Steidten to be sacked as well, which I totally agree with.
1.) 07 Jan 2025 21:32:55
He will get his pay off like Loppy, but Steidten is very flippant, he’s certain he can walk into another big job anytime, we shall see, his time is coming , but it’s not all his fault, he was given an impossible mandate, by Sullivan who treated him like the messiah, originally instructed to secure 4/5 players, it became 7 then 9 just bonkers, Sullivan thought a whole squad can be changed in a single window, displaying his poor understanding of how teams make progress, Steidten can do a job, but needs to be out of the spotlight, that's never going to happen at WH
2.) 07 Jan 2025 22:06:26
I just really hope, once Potter is appointed that we give the man a proper chance cause he has a rubbish show to clean up and miracles don't happen over night.
So let's have a bit of positivity everyone and let's get behind him, his decision making and the team and you never know, the positive vibes might just be reflected in the football we see
06 Jan 2025 15:32:57
Loppy has gone. Potter in talks
1.) 06 Jan 2025 16:03:21
Is that confirmed Brooking?
2.) 06 Jan 2025 16:43:12
Yes, should have left after half dozen games
13 Nov 2024 12:26:26
It has been suggested that POTTER has been ruled out by DS. Why? Foreign managers have been abject failures for us: Grant, Bilic, Zola, Pellegrini and Loppy. Bilic was 'sort of' good for 15 months.
Go British, Sullivan.
1.) 13 Nov 2024 14:21:15
So have British managers since Billy Bonds, think Lou Macari, Big FAT Sam, and David Moyes
2.) 13 Nov 2024 14:45:06
Brooking,
Surely you mean “Sullivan, get the best man for the job, regardless of nationality”?
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04 Feb 2025 07:16:43
Under Potter we look a different a team. Playing 352 or 541 appears to work for us. To raise money in the summer I would sell Kudus and Emerson. We would get £100 for the two. Kudus has become predictable, which is why he is not scoring. Constantly, he comes in on his left and defenders now know what he is doing, unless he changes there are few goals coming from him. Last nights performance was very good, and both Chelsea goals were debatable.
1.) 04 Feb 2025 15:11:10
Tend to agree with your Summary BROOKING. How long however before the natives start getting restless. 1 win in 5 under Potter (although we have improved), desperately thin on the bench last night, not a lot done in the window to address player shortfalls and still a long way to go till end of season!
I have total faith in Potter, however, I think Sullivan and Co will come in for some severe criticism should this trend continue.
2.) 04 Feb 2025 17:42:30
I am not so sure Mac3, I think most of us have written off this season, so as long as we get a few results, stay up and play decent football, I think most of us are knowledgeable to realise that we need loads of new players to play the type of football Potter wants to play.
3.) 04 Feb 2025 18:28:09
Agreed Gerry N P. POTTER will be very very busy over the summer but, on the positive side, we've already had a taste of the sort of players they will be targeting which is very exciting
03 Feb 2025 07:35:38
JWP is coming back to West Ham. At least we now have a manager who sees sense. With Ferguson coming in he will need someone to feed from, hopefully JWP is the man.
1.) 03 Feb 2025 12:33:22
JWP! If we try hard enough we could get enough lamp posts to light the entire length of the A12. Talk about a backward step. JWP couldn’t get into the Forest starting XI as a regular player. And as for his threat at set pieces - he’s about as useful as gloves for a budgie. If he’s the best we can do, then we really do have problems. It looks like Sullivan only OKs the cheapest options again.
2.) 03 Feb 2025 13:15:33
Wow I think the definition of underwhelming in the Oxford English Dictionary is JWP returning to West Ham
3.) 03 Feb 2025 16:50:42
Give the guy a break and judge him on how he fits into the Potter system, most of us wrote off Souček and said he wouldn't fit into GP's system and look how he has improved. I remember a certain Robert Snodgrass who was written off by everyone and loaned to Villa from memory, look how he was when he came back. Wish everyone would just ignore the board and get behind the players and the manager for the rest of the season. I don't get this negativity from the ST holders where I sit so can only assume most moaning on here are armchair supporters. COYI
4.) 03 Feb 2025 17:32:38
Well Gerry, you seem to be right about one thing, there are more posters coming on this site, there may be nothing else we agree on, but we do agree there’s more posters,
5.) 03 Feb 2025 17:34:09
I am not just a moaner. I admit I do have an issue with the chairman as it’s the same every window.
For your information I stand behind the goal and most people around me would not be happy with JWP as they didn’t think he was any cop before.
Hopefully he will work I have no beef with the new manager as he has done a lot of good things
6.) 04 Feb 2025 01:07:40
JWP is not a premier league player like CRESSWELL, COUFAL, IRVING, ETC imo it's all about opinions but we need a complete rebuild.COYI
25 Jan 2025 23:15:05
So, it looks like Steidten has gone. I have to say I am pleased. He was banned from the training ground by Moyes and later Loppy. I wonder if he's a man who believes he knows everything and has a rather sizable ego. AWB has been an excellent buy, as has Kudus. Summerville looks decent, although this looks a Sullivan suggestion if the media are to be believed. Kilman and Soler are ok too date, The rest have been a shower. The man wasted a lot of money.
1.) 26 Jan 2025 09:01:47
We get it mate he went against your Moyesiah, but posts like this detract from the real problem at the club and that's sullivan. Steidten was never given full control which is clear and still given a near impossible task to fix years and years of poor spending by the daves.
2.) 26 Jan 2025 11:21:21
Al let me give you what I see is a positive sign that Steidten has been sacked. I firmly believe that Sullivan is working on an exit strategy. He wants to be out of the game within 5 years which is why he paid top dollar for Steidten, who was a headline act. Steidten had a remit to rebuild the team and squad into a regular Champions League team and top 5/6 PL team within 5 years. After last Summers transfer window, where to be fair to the board a lot of money was given to Steidten (and he spent at least a month of it chasing shadows and trying to spot the next wonder kid playing bare foot on Copacabana! ) we are behind where we were when Moyes left and poorer for it. Sullivan now has only 3 years to execute his exit plan which means he will have to dig deeper to buy the players needed and hire a coach who can bring through and spot decent kids from closer to home and cement our already great academy into one of the best in the World. In my opinion Potter is that coach so we’re half way there. In order to execute the first part (buying the right players) Sullivan and Co will HAVE to wheel and deal as money doesn’t grow on trees, there are FFP rules to abide to and Steidten, bless him, blew a good chunk of the £150m . I would expect a couple of loan deals at best this window, a CB and a CF, get Bowen back, play 3 or 4 of the young lads and get through to the end of the season (and I full expect we will stay up as we have enough points already on 4 teams that so much worse than us) allowing Potter to spend whatever money we have more wisely in Summer. The positivity I mentioned at the start? By Summer Sullivan will only have 2 seasons left until his exit strategy of selling is implemented and mega rich owners will come in wanting to change our shirt colour …….
3.) 26 Jan 2025 12:38:01
Which by the way I would hate as I love our Claret and Blue!
4.) 26 Jan 2025 12:55:51
Iron Al, it is irrelevant who I like or dislike. What is factual is Steidten proved to be a poor appointment. I was a Moyes support, and I have no problem admitting that. Man was great for our club.
5.) 26 Jan 2025 12:59:09
Think you give sullivan far too much credit dabber, there has been times where we have been in a really good position half way through the season and we've got to January and not done anything an ambitious owner would have invested, the only times he's went big in January is when we were under the threat of relagation, I think that sums up his ambition, this is a man that gets advice on players from Barry silkman and salthouse rather than people that have the best interests of the club, he went against the advise of a lot of people and employed lopetegui.
To me this doesn't sound like a man that wants to try be ambitious and get into a champions league place and if he does then he doesn't have a clue how to do it.
The only way we'd stand any chance of getting there under current regime is if we have 3-4 players come through the academy that reach rice's level or we start listening/employing people that have the best interests of the club at heart and are not in it for themselves.
All that being said I wasn't saying we should keep stiedten as his position has become untenable, the point I'm making is its not all down to him that narrative only benefits sullivan, however if stiedten was in full control I do think our squad would be better off, as his top targets were the likes of Duran, samu, youssouf fofana who are all doing well.
Fullkrug should have never been signed with his injury record, and time will tell on guilherme.
What annoys me we are going back to what got us here in the first place and that's sullivan and his phantom bids, making ridiculous offers that are never going to get accepted then relying on the likes of silkman and salthouse to bring in players. I'd much rather see steidten on his jet to pick up a player like kudus after a game and get the deal done rather than the way sullivan operates.
6.) 26 Jan 2025 16:01:33
Whilst Stiedten must shoulder a lot of t he responsibility and it does seem that he was very interested in self publicity and quite decisive as he under-mined the previous two managers even though they both pretty dreadful.
We are going nowhere with Sullivan in charge and he is the most devious and decisive of them all.
The biggest error was putting Loppy in charge. I know of absolutely no one who wanted him or thought he was going to be any good apart from Sullivan. AC Milan fans have a petition to say they don’t want Loppy and the owners listen and decide against employing him as they know how important the fan base opinion is. We do the same and it just gets ignored. TS made mistakes but to go back to the chaos of 2 years ago with DS being in charge of everything is a disaster. The whole way he deals is unreal. The bogus stories of offering money are a joke. 57 million for JD which turns out to be more like 45 million which he probably had absolutely no intention of paying even if Villa accepted. Which they wouldn’t because they asked for around 65 million. Why would he not divert this 57,45 million onto one or a couple of players.
He and David Gold did get us out of a hole with the Icelandic owners but god we have paid for it over and over again. I can’t see any decent players wanting to come to this club. The sooner he goes the better.
7.) 26 Jan 2025 16:31:26
@brooking, stiedten was tasked with finding a potential replacement for Moyes by Sullivan, whether he removed himself or moyes banned him was never clear I doubt the latter even had the authority, maybe it was mutual maybe it was sullivan we don't know.
Stiedten being a bad appointment isn't a fact its an opinion, there were good and bad things. It's my opinion that his football knowledge and the way he operates in the transfer market is better than sullivan.
Hopefully the new set up with potter and mcauley is better, maybe we can even go get ashworth and he can create a proper set up but I still think of sullivan is in charge he can't help but meddle
8.) 26 Jan 2025 17:31:24
Also moyes wasted a fortune a lot more tim, the more he spent the worse the team was getting, a lot of his success was on the coatails of Rice
9.) 26 Jan 2025 17:35:31
Possibly, but the point I’m trying to make is that Sullivan will surely do what it takes to get him the best deal when he decides the time is right to sell. I don’t think he cares about the club beyond his exit but wants the best return on his investment. Over the last 3-4 years substantial money has been made available for new players, it’s just not always been spent wisely. I don’t like the man at all but as somebody who also owns their own business I know how difficult it can be to let somebody else spend your money. The one time he has done it the trusted pair of hands, Steidten, has got it (in the main ) wrong. We will undoubtedly be a much happier club post Sullivan but I just don’t buy into the popular narrative that it’s all his fault sorry
10.) 26 Jan 2025 19:37:33
Never said its all his fault but largely its down to him imo.
Be interesting to know how much of his own money he's put in. With ffp i thought the majority of the spend was based on the revenue and not out of his pocket? One thing is true he stands to make a lot of money from us once he sells up.
11.) 26 Jan 2025 22:15:40
Good luck to him making money. I have absolutely no problem with. When we were in the brown stuff years back he and Gold saved us. So, if he’s made loads of money, so what. No one else tried to save us.
12.) 27 Jan 2025 07:58:34
I agree brooking he took a risk then with his own money so rightly he will get his reward.
13.) 30 Jan 2025 21:15:39
STEIDTEN was terrible appointment he brought 2 of our best players and an asset that will be sold which I'm against for best part of £100 million imo he wasn't allowed to do his job oh by the way he done a terrible job at LEVERKUSEN as well ? COYI
18 Jan 2025 19:50:14
Today showed how Steidten n Loppy wasted a high majority of the £130m.
Potter will see this season out and get rid of many of these players. Ones he'll keep are; Bowen, Summerville, AWB, Soucek, Kilman. It's been in the papers he wants Angel Gomes, Johnathan David, Dewsburu Hall. All good additions. I'd go in for Sam Johnstone at Wolves as GK.
1.) 18 Jan 2025 20:47:11
Great shouts there Brooking, couldn't agree more. I reckon Potter had his eyes opened today and it shocked him
2.) 18 Jan 2025 21:58:10
This goes way beyond steidten and loppy unfortunately, the wasting of money goes way back before they were here. I mean even under the Moyes era alone we spent close to 500m and left us with the smallest oldest squad in the league.
14 Jan 2025 22:20:17
Excellent result. Sticky 15 minutes at the start but we grew into the game. Very valuable 3 points. Team wanted to run and smiled. Thought Soucek mom, he is a far superior captain than Bowen. We looked organised and not scattergunned. More of the same please Mr Potter.
1.) 15 Jan 2025 06:24:23
The old fight is back as entertaining football returns at last. This is what I’ve been banging on about for a few years. Very strange game at times; we were gifted two goals and Fab was wearing his concrete boots for both their goals, but it was obvious the brakes were off. Now looking forward to Saturday, without that feeling of trepidation.
2.) 15 Jan 2025 18:39:45
Still we think we need goalkeeper and central defence, we can have a make shift attack but we cannot in defence.
Bring Aguerd back, was prone to the odd mistake but has the pace to recover, kilman and Mavropanos have no pace and any mistake is punished.
Aguerd and Todibo are a good combo at the back with AWB and Scarles, plenty of pace which should tighten up the back
3.) 15 Jan 2025 20:58:33
Aguerd can’t be recalled on his loan, It’s unclear what Sullivan /potter want to do at CB
4.) 15 Jan 2025 21:48:11
@tinlegs, we weren't gifted those goals our hard work and organised pressing earned them.
I like how compact we were really mitigated the lack of pace in the midfield, we weren't over run or completely open through the middle of the pitch like under lopetegui. Left the space out wide for them to Pump plenty crosses into our box which was almost our downfall, the subs and changes to the shape potter made mitigated that well.
Players look invigorated, looking forward to seeing what he can do once summerville, Bowen, Todibo are back.
5.) 15 Jan 2025 22:15:00
I’m not sure about Todibo, his positional play is bang average, whereas Mavro has s bad mistake in him every game. Neither are secure.
6.) 15 Jan 2025 22:29:28
Time will tell, I think there is a good player in both. Can already see the players responding to Potter wether that's a mindset change the tactics or both, I think both of those players could stand to benefit.
7.) 15 Jan 2025 23:55:52
AI,
Two of our goals were as a direct result of two major cock ups by Fulham. If that’s not gifted, then I don’t know what is. And we should be pressing and working hard in every game as a matter of course. We shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but without those two obvious mistakes (ask Marco Silva) the scoreline just MIGHT have been different.
8.) 16 Jan 2025 08:46:24
We forced the errors imo. A gift for me would be an unforced error but each to their own. Not bothered what Silva thought couldn't beat us when we had summerville, bowen, fullkrug, Antonio, todibo missing.
I mean both the awobi goals were quite fortunate as well if their forwards didn't miss the ball fab MIGHT have saved it.
9.) 16 Jan 2025 11:40:22
I think you are both right. There were 2 mistakes made by the defender and keeper that lead to goals but we still had a fair bit to do score on the first goal and Ings uncharacteristically chasing down the keeper on the 2nd created that goal. Fulham on the whole did look the better side but they were unbeaten in 9 games and play fast positive football as a team oozing with confidence.
The marked difference is that under Loopy we’d have lost that game 5 or 6-1 whereas under Potter we battled to the win. As has been said I’m really excited to see what Potter can do when Bowen and Todibo are fully back, sadly don’t see Antonio (I think he’ll retire) and Fulkrug will play for us again. If we can get 2 or 3 new incomings as well, happy days
15 Jan 2025 22:17:37
Fornals could play anywhere across the midfield and pop up with the occasional goal. Still, he’s the past. Just got to move on.
15 Jan 2025 07:41:29
Scammacca £30m - failed, Haller £50m - failed, Vlasic £27m - failed - That is over £100m in failures. I could go back throughout the years. Our recent success stories have been Bowen and Antonio, both grounded in the Championship. Surely our scouting network is looking in Britain and not just Carlos Kickerball leagues in Europe? Last night we played without a recognised forward. It beggers belief.
14 Jan 2025 07:32:13
I think we just need a forward. This season is finished. We just need someone who can hold the ball up for our midfield to run on to. Surely, there must be someone in the Championship. I high majority of our foreign forwards have failed, therefore, look for someone who is fit and plays in England or Scotland.
10 Jan 2025 07:37:49
If we get our £30m back, then it's a great deal for us.
09 Jan 2025 15:03:12
Think it works for both clubs. It might be another Lingard, and that did not work too bad for us.
12 Feb 2025 12:39:06
Personally, I would let him go. If we are to move on, he and Cresswell are the past. Furthermore, we have been superb paying wages considering his injury was not caused by Football. Harsh, but we will not move on.
26 Jan 2025 22:15:40
Good luck to him making money. I have absolutely no problem with. When we were in the brown stuff years back he and Gold saved us. So, if he’s made loads of money, so what. No one else tried to save us.
26 Jan 2025 12:55:51
Iron Al, it is irrelevant who I like or dislike. What is factual is Steidten proved to be a poor appointment. I was a Moyes support, and I have no problem admitting that. Man was great for our club.
15 Jan 2025 22:15:00
I’m not sure about Todibo, his positional play is bang average, whereas Mavro has s bad mistake in him every game. Neither are secure.
13 Jan 2025 20:40:16
I think there will be NO movement until clubs here about PSR tomorrow.