Alan Shearer is at it again and clearly has very little on his mind than West Ham United.
After various blistering attacks on the team of late he has now used another of his various media outlets for Coral to launch a new broadside at the players.
This time he appears to be basing it on the fact that they are hiding behind stadium issues despite them not being heard to do so which makes it all a bit odd and unfair.
He appears to have based his comments on the manager’s defence of Rush Green where Manuel Pellegrini said: “We have excellent training pitches, which mirror the exact layout, dimensions and quality of our home match pitch at London Stadium.”
However, not allowing the facts to get in the way of a good moan Shearer writes: “You cant keep using that as an excuse, you cant use that as an excuse for players going out there and not having the right attitude,”
“It’s the same size pitch, it’s the same football, it’s the same size goals, there’s not excuse for going out and not working and not trying hard. sharpish’
“And that’s what I saw at the weekend against Wolves, they didn’t work hard and they didn’t try hard enough. You can’t use the stadium as an excuse for that. Fans want 100% commitment. That’s all.
“I think fans will put up with having a poor result if they see the players giving absolutely everything. They didn’t see that at the weekend, that’s why West Ham got booed off and rightly so.”
However, Shearer continues to back Pellegrini believing talk of an early departure is simply not on.
He said: “I think it’s far too early to be talking about a manager being sacked after three or four games particularly with the number of players you’ve brought in to try and get that team together.
“He has to be given time but also you’ve got to see an improvement because of the money that’s been spent, you’ve got to see an improvement in players attitudes and that has to happen sharpish.”
he;s right on the main points though, we did not work hard. As easy to play against as my sons under 8 side. ZERO pressure on the ball, backed up by the running stats where our oppponents are putting in 25% more work on average per match this season
I was going to say the same thing Bear, where did you get the stats for on the running etc I am trying to find a free stats site that tells you how many km’s each player has run and how many sprints they made etc ?
Using the stadium as his main weapon to attack us with, shows he has become just a Media event.
Spot on in my humble view. 100% effort is the bare minimum we ask of the players.
In the main I agree with Shearer, we had no intensity against Wolves and allowed them behind our back line on a number of occasions. We could have conceded three or four during the game but for Fabianski and Jimenez stepping on the ball! However, losing the game in the final minute of injury time was very disappointing!
No one would disagree but he said all that on MOTD so why invent another excuse which is factually incorrect to have another pop which is why I put the piece out
Lets hope we smash Everton, and Newcastle then get smashed. bit karma :-).
He doesn’t like West Ham very much does He ?
Totally agree with him that’s our biggest problem they just don’t work hard enough.. I’ve said that all along you can’t help the way you play all the time but there is no excuse for being lazy and that gives me the hump