Slaven Bilic named as West Ham Manager (09.06.15)
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Ayew has shown signs recently that he may be able to replicate his Swansea form, but Fletcher isn't fancied by Slav, Zaza was a failure and Calleri is decidedly average at best.
The right back situation has been nothing short of farcical, IMO.
According to that transfer market page we spent £70mil.....that's good it's hard to argue that isn't a lot of money......but that is on 13 players averaging £5.4 mil for each player
The fact that we've added 13 players (9 if you count payet, tomks leaving and the failed moves of zaza and tore) and still don't seem to have a strong bench is worrying
I'm not sure who is in control of transfers but they need to sort it out as this squad last year didn't need 13 new players
The key word used in rumours is transfer strategy....there was no strategy at all this summer
I feel for both Slav and G&S, as they showed the money, as they are being blamed for the recruitment but it has failed so someone has to take responsibility
The club doesn't need a complete makeover just a key couple of positions which WE HAVE TO ADDRESS (RB and striker again...)
They won't sack bilic unless we are relegated as he's a west ham favourite, plays attacking football and is better than the calibre of managers we can attract right now
Big summer awaits
Yes, I know it is a 'team effort'. But, for example, I don't think the manager is as big a 'draw' as some other managers are. Notice how many foreign managers sign players from the leagues they have previously managed in. Which is great if you have a reputation and good connections in a league bursting with good players. Less helpful if you have managed (unsuccessfully for a year) in Russia and Turkey.
I'm not saying it's the reason for our signings not always working out. Just that is is a factor.
Also, I do believe that Slav has the final word on who he wants or doesn't.
Equally, it could be that Slav wanted him but he's a trouble-maker. Or rubbish. His pedigree is unquestionable but that fact that he has hardly kicked a ball, given out struggles in that position, is a bit baffling, I agree.
He has managed in multiple countries, been a fairly high profile national team coach, managed in European competitions, etc. I think most people would agree that his first window was one of the best in memory.
I agree with the strategy comment that someone made above. My view, and I can't support this with evidence or comparison, it is just the conclusion I have drawn over time, is that we are not alone as a club in identifying multiple players for each position we are interested in (no problem with that), but that we have our head turned from our efforts too easily.
So, we had multiple striking targets last summer. Fine. Good. I'm happy with that. But then when Ayew became available we signed an attacking midfielder instead. Same happened when we signed Downing. And then all of a sudden we have too many in one position and not enough in another.
I have full confidence that we will go into this summer looking for a RB and ST as priorities. But I also feel that, if we don't have immediate success in either position, and a good deal on a CB or a LW turns up we'll go for that instead.
There was a huge amount said about the fact that when he was playing the whole team played better. Did we buy players who would be able to do a better job when you had Payet doing amazing things.
But as he decided that he just didn't care, then we basically lost the creativity we needed and then when he finally went, we just don't have that spark that we need to gel?
We really need to have a better window in the summer and I think we might.
Someone's blog saying they think the Dave's will sack him, because it's 'what they do'.
http://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-winners-and-losers-60
;hmm
If you look at it that Grant deserved the sack as he got us relegated and when they bought us Zola had lost the team then it reads as 2 managers in 5 years with none of them being sacked before the last game of the season
Say what you want about the owners but they aren't the fire hire fire hire type
its not a good grounding for clean sheets we are hopeless at defending and cause our own problems in the first minutes of games with so much going forward but not much thought about what happens when we lose the ball .
;ok
If he was disappointed at the lapses in that game then I wouldn't like to guess what he thought about today's three goals.
I have to admit that other managers have been given the tin tack when they've had plenty of time to sort out defensive issues and not done so. As in, less time than Slaven Bilic has had.
I've got nothing against him but I have lost confidence that he will improve things to any degree and take us forward. As of yet though, I haven't got a particular manager in mind who I'd prefer to be in charge. If he does get sacked, I hope its before the end of the season so the new manager has a chunk of time this season and throughout the summer to attempt to shape the team/squad
Also all their talk of us "moving to the next level" is undermined when top class managers reject them. Slaven is probably about the best we can get at the moment
For me, the introduction of a new defensive coach could be useful (whether Rio is the right person to do that, I don't know, given his lack of coaching experience). BUT I think the issue is less down to absence of a top class defensive coach, and more that the philosophy of our manager is to attack.
Arsenal could bring in the best defensive coach in the world, but if Wenger tells his fullbacks to play as wingers and leaves no defensive midfielders, they will always be exposed.
For us, our fullbacks bomb on, and our midfield often get caught out.