Finally Luis Guilherme, West Ham’s ‘forgotten’ Brazilian teenager got onto the pitch against Everton. It seems as if the Lopetegui grudge being borne for his technical director’s £20 million spend has finally been exorcised.
It was just ten minutes of game time, but significant in as much as with the tension between our head coach and technical director, Guilherme had seemed to become the whipping boy.
Maybe it speaks volumes about Lopetegui’s desperation for inspiration that he overcame his stubbornness and finally gave ‘Steidten’s pearl’ an outing.
Various reports had claimed that Guilherme hadn’t impressed in training, but in reality as a fleet footed winger in this current West Ham team he is always going to be second choice at best- there is some serious talent ahead of him in he queue.
We know from his cameo that he has pace: He hasn’t lost his skills overnight and se desperately needs more time on the pitch.
Mohammed Kudus still has more games to sit out so I for one am very keen to see Guilherme get more game time: Even in that briefest of glimpses against Everton we saw flashes of speed which is what West Ham have been so lacking for the last couple of seasons.
I felt the tweet X from @WestHamTransfers summed it up very nicely: ‘Luis Guilherme [ has] done more in the last ten minutes than Paqueta has done all season.”
Now we need his head coach to continue to show faith in him and develop his confidence with more minutes on the pitch and more development on the training ground. Apart from anything else, he’s a £20 million asset – so look after him, please Julen.
Lopetegui: “For the players, it’s sometimes not easy to adapt to this pace or this rhythm, this demand. They need time to understand what happens around them. That’s why we try to help them.”
Your response 2 months ago:
“Lopetegui clearly understands the extra rigours and pace of the PL in a way that perhaps we armchair (or desktop) critics forget, watching week-in, week-out: There is a long acclimatisation process required for non-Premier League recruits to adapt whereas others like Aaron Wan Bissaka are able to go straight into the team.”
“….I need to be a little more forgiving if Lopetegui shields his new signings until they’ve had long enough to acclimatise.”
PSR don’t mean sully can’t give loppy gardening leave an pay him up to the end of the season, then pay him off. Meanwhile we can go get a Decent manage/head coach that can play tactical/attractive Winning football
Slowczech.
I think this sums him up. Much as I hate to acknowledge it – maybe people were correct in saying we had a Spanish Moyes. And we all know, that was the last thing we wanted or needed.
Proof of Lopetegui’s idiocy is that it took so long for him to play a 25 million player given how poor every previous match performance has been . Lopetegui has tried every other ludicrous combination and player position . Unfortunately PSR restrictions mean that Sullivan can’t afford to sack Lopetegui and pay off the 6 million contract until the summer when it will fall to a 3.5 million pay off . Similar reason why Moyes saw out his full contract .
Didn’t do much but what he did was encouraging at least.
He was clearly bought for the future. People can discuss whether that was a smart use of funds, but I’m not quite as quick to call this a poor signing as I am Fullkrug.
The likes of Mitoma and Caicedo took 12-18 months before they became first team regulars at Brighton for example. I was never expecting Guilherme to come good overnight, but I guess time will tell.
He’s done more than Paqueta all season?
Why is Paqueta always dug out? What about Soucek??? What the hell does he do all game, gets a messy goal and gets motm
Man at least Pacman tries stuff regardless of him losing the ball, at least he tries to go forward not sideways or backwards ffs
100%
Lopetegui’s grudge…??? Where do you get this stuff from?
LMAO
Ridiculous comments.
What you don’t think the manager wants to win?
He’ll do anything to win, not because Stietden , not because of anyone. He wants to win for the club and himself. Doesn’t matter who the players are..