West Ham struggled when Nuno Espírito Santo first landed at London Stadium: Potter’s successor failed to identify his best XI for months and instead tinkered, chopped and changed his starters looking for the right combination. It was only after three months and the arrival of his assistant that everything gelled.
Turns out that Nuno, without his backroom coaching team, was only firing on half his cylinders. His drafting in of West Ham’s academy coaches helped but didn’t set the world on fire, and looking back it is evident that the man without his familiar staff around him really struggled to pull West Ham out of their nosedive.
Yahoosports carry a report based on comments from Everton’s former CEO Keith Wyness who now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs. Wyness believes that Silva’s return to Nuno’s side could be an absolute game-changer for West Ham:
“The Scottish businessman has emphasised that West Ham fans should be “very positive” about the 49-year-old’s arrival, given the success that he and Nuno have enjoyed together previously.
Bak in their successful era at Wolves – Nuno and Silva
Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, Wyness labelled Silva as being like “another part of his (Nuno’s) brain.”
“I think that’s a big part of the missing piece of the puzzle. They were there together at Wolves when they got 99 points in the Championship and brought them up and established them in the Premier League,” he said.
“They were together at Forest as well. Look, this is definitely Nuno’s right-hand man. This is like another part of his brain. They operate very well together.”
Which, without denigrating the work Paco Jemez produced last term, suggests Nuno’s West Ham coaching engine will be purring next season with his familiar number two by his side.
The pair have already shaken up West Ham’s pre season with Silva featuring on the Rush Green training videos putting his points across at maximum volume. Hopefully Silva will help Nuno curb his cautious instincts that saw West Ham give away so many points from winning positions last season that ultimately cost them dear.
Time will tell…
We need to pull our finger out though and start assembling the squad for next season.
The season kicks off in just over a months time, we need to hit the season running,cant afford a slow start.
It would be nice for some of our playersto come out and state there committed to getting us promoted, as it is its still a case of who’s going to leave.
still think Paco was the man for the job !!
I’d like to echo that Peter whu.
I want to see us return to being a team that plays on the front foot, players rotating and interchanging positions whilst retaining ball possession.
I want, skills, flicks, tricks and entertainment galore.
Yes, we play on the floor,
I want my West Ham back.
exactly ! I miss it so much – the excitement and everything you said.
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The main positive is Sullivan’s diminished influence.
different influence at the top, different recruitment setup, expectation that finances will be adequately managed, all hope for a long-term change in direction for the club. Guess we’ll need to be patient and not expect miracles. Going to be interesting.
Thought, or imagined, Paco had the effect of the new assistant, except not listened to as much. You could see from team performances how it switched from open attacking football, to overly cautious football with bad decisions.
Will be very interesting to see what type of football team they think can do well in the Championship, which is open and competitive. Hope it is not ultra defensive and hit them on the occasional break, tired of watching WHU on the back foot, likes of Fernandes as a DM, no interchanging of positions,…
NES deserves his chance, he worked hard for it last season and good luck to him, but given his record last season it is not a given, not by a long chalk. Anyhow, he gets a 2nd chance in much better circumstances and fully deserves it.