West Ham Banter

20 Jan 2025 16:26:08
Wow, the West Ham board are being slaughtered on social media by not only our own fans but fans from virtually every other club "Are they smoking crack down in East London? No disrespect to the West Ham fans as they are up there with the best imo, but they have a bunch of tossers running the club who know forewell that Villa won't accept an offer like that but they make it anyway and brief everyone so they look like they are making efforts"?

19 Jan 2025 17:17:24
It would appear that Potter is getting quizzical about Todibo, why he spends too much time in France, he should be treated mainly at WH, the feeling seems to be the buy option of 35 m euro, will not be taken up, at seasons end, and he can return to Nice

19 Jan 2025 19:17:07
Hope so. We don't want to waste money on a player that don't want to be here

19 Jan 2025 20:17:39
Thought it was an obligation once a certain amount of appearances had been reached?

20 Jan 2025 09:33:17
The feeling is WH want to slip out if they can, there are some clauses in the contract, which may allow this? we shall see, there’s a good player in there, but I just don’t think he wants to play for us, is the message, maybe Potter can change things, but Potter wants him in London, not France

19 Jan 2025 07:39:18
{Ed's Note - Shappy has posted a new article entitled, Manchester United midfield and inside forward positions

18 Jan 2025 19:52:18
This is the general feeling out there "Its not on Potter, he's been in the job barely a week. We desperately need players in, they should have done some business already, but Sullivan is sitting on his hands considering. He spent 2 months deliberating over sacking his flop manager, and he's doing the same over transfers in this window when he should be backing his new manager with players not tying his hands and making him select a first 11 from the poor quality of players we have.

18 Jan 2025 17:01:15
I am far from a prediction guru, but I do not understand how some of our fans thought Potter can instantly change things, HE CANT, I don't care who's in charge, if you havnt got the players, you can't make the changes needed WORSE still now we have one CB next week, Sullivan said three CB s enough for the season, is it? No it's not, Starting the season, without proper forwards, starting the season with three Centre backs, now Today we started reaping his rewards, Sullivan is putting his club in peril, if we play like that, we won't stay clear of relegation for long, today was absolute rubbish

18 Jan 2025 18:51:28
I have faith in Potter but he has inherited some utter s**t players

Fabianski - too old and slow to react
Wan Bissaka - no intensity
Mavrapanos - utter garbage
Kilman - too slow and no confidence
Cresswell - only knows how to play backwards
Emerson - the invisible man
Rodriguez - headless chicken
Alverez - hot headed headless chicken
Souchek - headless chicken
Pacqueta - not as good as he thinks he is
Kudus - greedy, holds onto the ball too long
Ings - don’t go there
Soler - no confidence

The 2 young lads were ok but started to mimic everybody else’s failings

If I were Potter I’d have them in at 8am tomorrow doing laps of the pitch with Sullivan and Steidten with them!

18 Jan 2025 19:29:37
Bit harsh Dabber 😆 🤣 lol but I agree. POTTER has a big job on his hands with lots of injuries but that comes when you have older players.

A lot out there pointing the finger at Steidten and his wasting of money in the summer and questioning exactly what is his role now?

Fir me I'm still quite positive and have faith in our manager but he has inherited a lot of crap and it's going to take time for him to see what we already know in that we have a bunch of players that are too old, not fit and past their prime in some cases.

Time will tell but enough of this constant "West Ham are considering" rubbish. Either get the player or don't but enough of the "mulling, pondering, considering" rubbish

20 Jan 2025 04:26:23
Dabber,
Your assessments are generally good IMO, but with slight reservations:
Fabianski - decision making questionable; past it
Wan Bissaka - not a wingback; he’s a good fullback
Mavropanos - a decent back-up, but not a starter
Kilman - too slow and way overpriced
Cresswell - no longer a Premiership player
Emerson - too inconsistent
Rodriguez - too slow and lacks confidence
Alvarez - lacks self control
Soucek - headless chicken who can’t pass
Paqueta - FA charges weigh heavily on his mind
Kudus - talented, but not a team player
Ings - a total waste of space
Soler - needs more game time for confidence

20 Jan 2025 12:49:51
To be fair Tinlegs I’d say your assessment is fairer based on time of reflection. My summary was primarily done in anger and you should always calm down before putting pen to paper. What I would say is we have to agree to disagree on Pacqueta as he turns up when he wants to turn up and every single game he gives the ball away at least once by trying to be tricky ….