Maybe we have been too honest for our own good.
Covid may well have been the worst thing most of us have lived through but as it but a few weeks ago there was little doubt the Hammers stayed true to themselves fielding a team whenever possible.
The same can’t be said of a few other teams and as a result we have fallen behind in terms of gaining a games in hand advantage unlike Spurs who have been heled to their three point lead over us with that possibly as a factor.
Alright I’m whinging but what with the Europa League commitment and squeezing games in whenever we could whilst others pleaded thin squads we have done ourselves a bit of a disservice.
The intensity of our games has been severer with the likes of Liverpool and Seville on the agenda and David Moyes has made it clear the international break could have done with coming earlier in our case.
He told www.whufc.com: “To come here (Spurs) after we beat Aston Villa on Sunday and we beat Sevilla on Thursday night, after 120 minutes… to play a team who are challenging and, with it being a derby game as well, for us to come into that sort of half-cooked, and not fully ready, was really difficult.
To be honest, I wish the international break had come a few days earlier.
Hopefully the players will come back ready for the final seven or eight weeks of the season, and we know we’ve got huge games.
We want to try to stay in the European places, and we want to continue our run in the Europa League if we can as well.”
Sounds like a pathetic excuse for having a lightweight squad . Doesn’t hold water I am afraid . Moyes failed dismally to prepare the squad for European football by not replacing Haller and Noble at the very least . Gross miss management on his part to run the legs of off the chosen 12 … Great opportunity missed in my opinion . Some great days to be a Hammer but I fear a 9/10 finish in the league and a glorious but futile visit to Europe . Sullivan got what he wanted ..a safe pair of miserly hands which will never reach out to hold a trophy . COYI
So who would have been your choice after the non miserly Pellegrini?
I have honestly never known such a bunch of moaning old gits .
Its nearly April , we are 7th in the league and in quarter finals of the Europe League.
Please get a grip.
Literally like listening to a load of 15 year olds whose only knowledge of football is buying Mbappe for S****horpe on Fifa.
Look at the teams above us in the league and the money they have spent, there is zero reason we should be above them. We have a a small squad , Moyes aware and will address in the summer, just be positive and enjoy the bloody season.
Its actually embarrassing ,90% of the claptrap on these forums. pretty sure Moyes knows better than us.