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06 May 2025 15:03:15
Lets be honest, Potter has inherited a load of horse dung and whoever they replace him with, they will need a big clear out. Let's give him a chance and see who he brings in and let's go before we judge him.
1.) 06 May 2025 16:39:35
The same players Loppy interested and done better with, no reason to give potter a free pass he's terrible and has proved it over half a season he is not the man to take us forward if he stays it's a relegation battle all next season with this plum in charge
2.) 06 May 2025 17:53:46
100% agree Redrobbo, just look at what Pereira has done at Wolves, worse squad but achieved nearly a 55% win rate against Potters measly 18.75%. Sorry I would get rid now never mind wait till seasons end, absolute madness letting him reshape the squad only to fail, then we have another manager in to restructure the squad yet again. We need some stability and I am sorry to say that is not Potter in my opinion.
3.) 06 May 2025 18:02:39
Agreed Robbo, WH board, at present, say their backing Potter, which is tantamount, to saying he’s gone at seasons end, and IF he’s still in charge, will they spend big money on his choices, I think not, and IF they do, their responsible for their own downfall, and it will be a downfall, all the way, I’m not privy to contracts, but even if Potter has two seasons left on his contract not one, it’s still cheaper to pay him off, than be relegated by about £500,million, Potter has three games left, I think we lose all three, maybe a couple of draws, then he’s gone end of, I think it’s worth losing, to see him gone, Sullivan can berate, his fellow directors all he wants, (and he is ) for this managerial appointment, (he didn’t want, ) . and quite rightly so, but it doesn’t change matters, at this time WH are getting knockbacks already, from agents and players, that don’t want WH, or more likely don’t want to play for Potter, 90% of the fan base wanted him, I could never understand why? Maybe mass hypnotised?
4.) 06 May 2025 18:19:29
Sorry John but he really is terrible. There was so much clamour for him to be made manager and even had a really good first match but Loppy had taken the training for most of the build up to that game. He must have been monitoring West Ham in the lead up to when he took over so should of had at least a few players that could change the speed or the way we play but all he did was bring in Ferguson. I don’t think any of us know who the right man is but that is no reason to keep someone who is definitely wrong. He has had a similar amount of games as his predecessor yet will have to win the last 3 matches to equal his record, and many people were calling for Loppy’s head after half a dozen so why are treating this guy with kid-gloves. I think it would be best to put an old player in charge as an interim like we did when Glen Roeder got sacked and Brooking stood in, and made a massive difference. The wolves analogy is also spot on.
5.) 07 May 2025 10:12:36
Potter’s record speaks for itself. It’s this suck it and see attitude that’s the danger John. If we leave our rebuild in his hands, it’ll be a disaster and will be too late. What more evidence do you want? Based on his record so far, this bloke is a chocolate fire guard.
20 May 2024 13:12:10
Lukus Paqueta to leave WH for M/City. What about taking Jack Grealish as part of the deal.
What do u lads think?
1.) 20 May 2024 15:37:54
Nahhhhhh he is always on the floor. Spurs have released Ryan Sessegnon so he is available on a free which for me is a no brainer and surely even as a squad member would be worth a punt
2.) 20 May 2024 19:42:52
Cresswell offered 12 month extension I don't believe it? .
3.) 20 May 2024 21:24:28
Does that include his nurse?
4.) 20 May 2024 21:31:29
Why oh why are they wanting to keep him on he’s done. They will extend zoumas contract next
5.) 20 May 2024 21:31:56
I’d take grealish but can’t see that happening.
6.) 21 May 2024 07:50:48
That just about sums up this clubs ambition by offering CRESSWELL a further 12 months. I think we can see already this could be a calamity
7.) 22 May 2024 03:43:21
If cresswell is used on very rare occasions.im ok with it . Like the early rounds of the cups . Beyond that it's asking for trouble.
07 May 2024 23:33:09
anyone knows who else will leave West Ham with DM?
1.) 08 May 2024 06:20:05
From the rumours theer seems to be a new name every day. If they want to leave, let them leave, as long as we get a decent price for those we can sell. The rest can go. No loyalty in football anymore
2.) 08 May 2024 08:49:55
Devon, all new Managers being their own entourage of yes men with them, hopefully those with strong connections to our club e.g. ex players will stay?
I have never seen much communication between Kevin Nolan and DM so I hope K.N. Stays?
I still hope DM gets a rousing reception come the final whistle on Saturday, I want him gone but that can’t detract from the job he’s done! He’s a very professional man that has conducted himself very well, but time for a new manager!
Like to see Paqueta go, a bloody liability and dirty player at times, also the very obvious so-called forwards that have been a complete waste that were DM signings if we can offload them?
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13 Jun 2022 08:55:14
Lets put Lingard to bed its plain to see he is looking for the offer do we need a 30 year player like that that puts money before club i think not.
Lets see who we get but for me not Lingard
1.) 13 Jun 2022 19:37:55
Totally agree John, if he wanted to come it would be done, he wants a pay day at Newcastle so let him have it. It’s a no from me
2.) 14 Jun 2022 07:52:19
If you only want players who will put the club before money our first team will be a small squad lol, noble was the last of the loyal one club man types, facts are that players are controlled by agents who will always look for the best financial deal it's the way of the world we haven't won anything for 40 years so it's not like we can offer the chance to win things either, just a go at playing in 3rd tier European football which is hardly that attractive
3.) 14 Jun 2022 11:12:20
Bissouma to SPURS £25m
4.) 14 Jun 2022 12:20:22
Robbo, bang on mate? Loyalty as rare as Hens teeth unfortunately!⚒⚒⚒
5.) 14 Jun 2022 15:20:58
i do agree with what your saying but to bring in a 30 year old millionaire who is looking to blow our wage structure is not on, ask yourself is he worth more in wages than most of our squard i think not.
6.) 15 Jun 2022 22:52:26
if he really wanted to come to whu he would be here money is tight for most clubs at the moment wages etc if you pay some1 a large wage others players will want parity
31 Jan 2022 22:28:34
Well it looks like no player in. Moyes and the team certainly seems to have tried but its always difficult to prise players away unless you a mega rich like Newcastle and put Salary ahead of ambition. Muyes has always said he would only go for player who he believes will strengthen the team. Man U are scared to let Lingard go for obvious reasons.
We will continue to support our team but also the chance of Champions league rests in WH winning the Europa cup. We must continue to support Moyes and his backroom staff
1.) 01 Feb 2022 00:06:11
Agree, but the lack of ambition…
2.) 01 Feb 2022 09:43:16
Moyes' greatest ambition was for ANOTHER defensive midfielder - the boy from Leeds.Only point would be is Soucek then pushed up to no 8 or 10 role as second striker / AM. Now we will never know.
3.) 01 Feb 2022 13:29:25
Devon John, I don’t get involved with we should get this one or that one, we should all be knowledgeable enough to know it’s not as easy as that, or should be knowledgeable enough, it’s like writing to ?? Santa Claus!
All I will say is that no matter how much we support DM and all the staff, it doesn’t help with players injured to replace them with PL quality players when we don’t have them?
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4.) 08 Mar 2022 10:10:40
Yarmo will be needed soon the way it's going.sorry, nice man, great country (Ukraine) but he cannot cut it for West Ham.
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11 Feb 2025 10:46:32
instead of paying vast sums of money for overseas players who have trouble adapting to the prem, the nearest league to the prem is our own Championship league this is where we should be looking yes overseas player can adapt to the prem but they take time and vast costs just look at our expensive centre forwards we have brought and lost millions, out there is another Bowen we just need to find him
1.) 11 Feb 2025 19:11:04
100% agree, there are some gems to be had in the Championship I am sure, and maybe youngsters in League 1 for the future.
04 Feb 2025 16:34:06
Well we got beaten by Chelsea but let's be positive our stye of play has improved so much Once we get all our players fit we should be in in the higher half of the Prem.
Lets be honest our team struggled this year with the style we where playing and terrible to watch yes we lost at Chelsea but we played some good football and a style that works.
Once we get rid of the dead wood we can start looking to put pressure on the teams above us
1.) 04 Feb 2025 17:14:20
Potter is a good. Manager and a good organiser no question, he will get the best out of what we have, and credit to him, BUT, we won’t be putting any pressure on anybody, until we have a quality bench, last night I was at Stamford bridge, looking at the Chelsea bench, then looking at ours that’s the difference for me, we have nobody to bring on, yes we will win a couple of games. And hopefully do enough to stay up, but that’s it for me, have you any idea how many changes will be needed at end of June? Have a look work it out then post back, regards to you Joyful
2.) 04 Feb 2025 17:39:12
Well Joyful we have 5 permanent players out of contract, Soler and Ferguson loans ending. That is 7 and then it depends on how many others are sold. So minimum of 10 I would say, unless of course there are youngsters that are deemed ready to step up.
3.) 04 Feb 2025 17:46:03
Don't know what you are on about Joyful, we brought on Danny Ings?
4.) 04 Feb 2025 18:02:41
You are correct, however one must look at various scenarios, Paqueta could suffer a total football ban, Kudus is looking to be sold, and Antonio, although there’s a years option, it’s unlikely to be taken up, as at present he’s a country mile from football, Potter I understand is not a fan of Mavrapanos, so he we be on the for sale list, Fulkrug wants to go back to Germany, and it’s likely he will get his wish. Teams like Hoffenheim and Mainz are interested, WH will be lucky to get back half of what they paid, but there you go, , As you know Coufal could have left on Friday for Fulham for £4 m, but there’s no replacement so no to that, which brings us to Guilherme, he will get his chance now, but could join the parade of those making the exit ///// So yes 7 on paper but potentially up to 13! Even 7 is a huge amount but it could go bonkers, because there are now grounds for it, Potter is making a deep study of the youngsters. Which is great, including those out on loan at present, but people like yourself with great knowledge know you cannot play more than a couple at a time, against seasoned quality professionals, so it could end up a busload, it’s very hard to do and very hard to gel, and organise, it’s half a squad, it can be done, but we will have to be signing players, as the bell rings to open the window
5.) 04 Feb 2025 18:13:01
Sadly I think the only way we have the capital to rebuild to that length is to sell Kudus for as much as we can and sell fringe players as well. Regardless of how much you say we have buying 10 players good enough to improve us we will still in my opinion need to sell Kudus and potentially Paqueta if he escapes a ban plus others. Think Kudus wants out anyway.
6.) 04 Feb 2025 18:48:53
Yes, Kudus will go almost for certain, and I forgot the lost soul in midfield Rodriguez, so 14 out potentially, can’t see anybody with contracts expiring being retained, So Macauley, will be hard at work, he needs to be, if we can agree a couple of pre contracts, will be of help, but Gomez will be hard, with Spurs willing to throw money at him, we however can look on the positive side, we can use Chelsea’s overloaded bombsquad, for three players, and they will certainly be all ears, Man untd are also overloaded, and again might be useful, free agents is a difficult area, except one, we must go for walker peters, and pay him a signing on fee, Spurs will be after him, but I don’t think he wants a return there, but it will be interesting to say the least
7.) 05 Feb 2025 06:57:29
How exciting to have Potter rebuild West Ham. I don’t know what all the gloom is about. It’s a big job yes that’s why these top managers are paid so much. It will take a 2/3 Windows for sure, but like most teams if Potter gets the core players correct (6/7) the other players are always transferable.
Build from the core out. Be positive
8.) 05 Feb 2025 11:18:02
What i like about potter so far is the fact he is using the younger players. Scarles and orford had a good few runs out. Guillerme looked decent in the cameo v chelsea too. Also got casey at CB who i would use over mavropanos now tbh.
Hopefully keeps giving these youngsters time between now and end of season.
9.) 05 Feb 2025 16:32:08
100% agree to Ham Egg and chips and ChrisB05
10.) 05 Feb 2025 17:05:59
A potter/mcauley rebuild could be very good but it should have started this window, and don't forget we have sullivan heavily involved again this Is a man that will spend months haggling, make ridiculous bids and even skupper deals so he can get his way.
16 Dec 2024 23:22:37
I must give credit where its due the side today played well a much improvement on what we have been seeing recently.
What do you lads think?
1.) 17 Dec 2024 08:12:30
Better but still way off the mark defensively, Mavropanos is not a first choice centre back me, he’s pretty brutal to watch, he’s like some of the people I play against in Sunday league, if he plays the ball back to keeper at least half the time he doesn’t look around him, he can’t take anything off the ball, it’s like no matter where he his he’s kicking a cannon ball. I personally think filkrug needs much more game time the blokes a unit, he needs balls put in the box though. I didn’t understand why he played paqueta and kudus on the wrong wings, the manager still baffles me, one thing he did was play the young lads, however it was the wrong time for me, we went in to sit back mode at the wrong time, Bournemouth were well up for it at this point, and if we had lost them lads would probably struggle to get a game again. So yeah better but still not good enough, I still think poppy needs to go.
2.) 17 Dec 2024 10:10:37
Was in two minds about yesterday's game felt we lacked cohesion Bowen plays better on the wing Kudos fails to pass the ball when he should and Pac Man still giving it away too much. Fab was outstanding and to be honest we could have been on the end of a tonking last Night good to see the 2 youngsters come on
3.) 17 Dec 2024 13:17:22
Thought we a were a bit better, especially in the first half but allowing Bournemouth 29 shots smacks that something's still not right in the midfield and defensive areas.
4.) 17 Dec 2024 14:15:55
If LOP is safe I hope they get rid of trouble makers in January and then he brings Guilherme in and gives him a run in the team.
14 Dec 2024 20:57:37
Lets face it the football WH are playing is crap for entertainment value and that is the reason season ticket holders are selling their seats every week.
We won last week but total crap the manager must take the blame as we have some very decent players but WH are in the entertainment business and let's be frank what we are seeing is total rubbish
1.) 15 Dec 2024 11:44:37
Can’t argue with any of that, problem though, is you need to be playing with confidence, a tactical plan, and on field guidance, in order to play relaxed attractive football, we have none of those, so it’s a points scrap this season now, priority will be 38/40 points, no matter whomever comes in, some money will be spent but, we are not flush, staying in premier, with luck, or by any means is paramount, that I can assure you is what the board want first and foremost………, get this season over, a new manager starting afresh can review the whole situation, maybe in the future we will get what the fans want
12 Dec 2024 17:48:46
West Ham got the win but very lucky two blatant pens and terrible football, worst than DM. Sorry its time to change Loppy and whoever the next manager is he has a very big job
to change the terrile style of football that will put a smile on fans faces
1.) 13 Dec 2024 19:12:24
Whilst I am not trying to defend JLo as he is a disaster. But there does seem to be a bit of Orwellian re-writing of history going on here. Because to say the football is worse than under the Moyesiah can only come from somebody who hadn’t actually gone to the London stadium last season. The only game I have seen thus far this season that was worse than the turgid crap served up by Moyes was the 0.0 draw against Everton. The football is poor and disorganised, but there is definitely more attacking. Maybe that’s where he is going wrong he should just tell all 11 players to never leave our own penalty area like Moyes did.
2.) 14 Dec 2024 05:14:38
I find it totally unbelievable that some are suggesting the Argyll Gargoyle should return for a third stint! Surely this is an episode written by Eddie Braben in a dystopian world bereft of all reason and sanity? I cannot think of a worse outcome for the mistake by our majority owner in appointing Lopetegui to the vacated position of head coach. The belated vacation of that position last summer was the correct move. It all went tits up when Sullivan decided he knew better than all others, other than his agent mate. Most agree that Lopetegui must be removed, but surely not for the retrograde step of re-employing the Dark Prince of boring stationary football?
09 Jun 2025 15:33:53
is Potter the right man? time will tell but atleast he's looking at academe players. WH were always had strong young players comming through but since Moyes it seems to me our youth are being ignored
17 Feb 2025 11:46:54
Hopefully we will try a few academy players otherwise what is the point of having an academy
28 Jan 2025 22:25:40
yes i herd they bid 2 shillings and sixpence
30 Aug 2024 01:29:58
Perhaps its about time we should be looking at our youngsters coming through before we loose them to other clubs, if we can't produce home grown players why do we have them, why buy players over 30years old who won't leave when they can't even run its like part of WH pension plan
15 Aug 2024 21:48:23
100% agree
19 Aug 2023 21:53:27
Surly our main problems are a left back and a centre forward
Oh and another Manager
19 Aug 2023 21:45:06
It just shows you how the man thinks or doesn't think