My admiration for Slaven Bilic knows no bounds….he was humble in the great times last season and remains 100 per cent honest in the current horrendous situation.
During the last 24 hours he has covered every single area of our problems from the events of the week, the shocking form, how he can help adjust to life at the London Stadium, the form of Zaza and much else.
Wherever you are coming from the man’s character, integrity and straightforward truth-telling is as refreshing and bold as I personally have seen in this game.
Football clubs and their managers generally tell lie upon lie. They act as a secret society or a branch of MI6 when you ask about anything as innocent as transfers, injuries, or what the players eat for lunch. It’s ridiculous and laughable.
Thankfully, at West Ham we have no such problems where Slaven and the board are very approachable and ready to give regular updates on most stuff.
Take today for example – here’s an example of what Slav told the official site: “I am asking myself questions all the time of how we can improve the situation and I talk to my staff all the time. The way we are playing is raising questions in a negative way and I agree with that.”
I can’t think of many managers who would use such words as “I agree with that” but that’s the quality of the bloke and I hope when the lads run out at the London Stadium a little later they will do it for him as well as us.
We all deserve 200 per cent after what we have been going through but I want to put my thanks to Slav on the record for showing class and quality.
COYI
It’s all very well being honest and open and we would applaud Bilic for that but he’s the guy we’ve got to look to to turn it around, come up with some tactical masterstroke or inspire the team to play above their potential.
I feel sorry for him, his options are severely limited – I honestly can’t see what he can do to improve things – defend deeper maybe, be more solid but nothing earth shattering.
It’s nt up to you and me to see it so long as he does Mike.
There’s been much written on that – mne for want of a better expression was a character reference and I believe I said I thought he would turn it around.
Maybe weetabix ankles should take a pointer from Slav about being professional instead of blowing some of his 100k a week wages on getting drunk 🙂
im just a jealous man
And maybe, just maybe, after today we will all be humming a different tune. Or, even if we can nick a win, the problems will only have been plastered over and the same moaners will be back looking to tell Slav what team to pick, how to play and the format to use. Didn’t know we managed by committee. Or maybe that’s where we have been going wrong all season! 3-1 today and season back on track.
The WHTID blog users are in charge of formations,team selection & tactics i think.It reads like that on there most days anyway COYI