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In Defence Of Hammers’ Head Coach | Lopetegui’s Correct Call

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Whilst West Ham are undergoing their own struggles – now I think officially a ‘crisis’ with the head coach given a ‘win against Everton or else’ ultimatum, several absent West Ham players must be looking on from their own temporary loan positions away from the club wondering what the impact of this trauma may be for their own career.

Especially for one Maxwell Cornet, his season – long loan at Premier League strugglers Southampton is failing to reboot his career. Saints’ fan site saintsmarching.com puts it succinctly in their article today entitled: “£17.5 million Ex-Champions League star’s struggles continue at Southampton”.

Highlighting an area for development, they suggest that: ” the 27-year-old needs to work on his pace and finishing in order to become a regular mainstay in Russell Martin’s starting lineup.” We knew that.

One decision Lopetegui got 100% correct was to prise Cornet off the bench West Ham and send him out on loan.

As we all suspected would be the case, the 27 year old “hasn’t looked convincing with his performances in the ongoing season.”

Really Cornet needs to drop down to the Championship but he’d face a massive £50k a week salary drop to do so: So I’d expect whoever is running West Ham by next June will find he boomerangs back to East London at the end of his loan.

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Pulling on a Claret and Blue replica shirt still makes me feel the same butterflies as when I was seven years old. Magic.

8 comments

  • Ian the sub says:

    I’ve asked Martin before without success, why l can’t make head or tails of these comments. I ‘ll try again ” Martin can you make sense of these comments , or would it be easier if they were printed in chronological order for dimwits like me?

  • Everyone says:

    Thanks John.

  • Alan says:

    Magnificent prose employed in this response. Absolutely correct also.

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