Rather than trot out yet another player claiming “we must stick together” the official site has decided it’s the manager’s turn which is something of a surprise given he is recognised as not the most publicity conscious manager in the business.
However, in a bid to reduce the heat perhaps he has called for cool heads in the current adverse situation and paraphrasing Cresswell and Fredericks recently by claiming we must work together adding the three words” more than ever.”
Quite what the point of this is may be hard to fathom but as we head towards the third day in of the international break I guess it fills a void.
Speaking @ https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/november/12-november/manuel-pellegrini-we-need-recover-our-confidence-and-trust he said: “We need to work together more than ever. We will have five or six players who will go to their national squads but this work is more than to recover individual performances. We will try to recover the trust as a team, and I am sure the results will come.”
However, one player who again escaped criticism – and in fairness, that must be the right attitude – was Roberto with the manager only saying of his own goal and decent saves: “Of course, we need to work on the confidence of all the players.
Maybe, when he made the saves, we were losing the game 3-0 already and Burnley had a lot of chances in the way they played on the counter attack as we were trying to get back into the game.
“We need to play well as a team for 95 minutes and not just do different and important things just at one point.”
“For me, my pressure is always bigger than media pressure or the pressure of results,” he explained. “I think that, for me, it’s a challenge to be here in West Ham and winning or losing, the pressure is exactly the same.
“We need to keep a cool head and continue working the way we think we must do it better and after that we will see the results.”
I doubt whether that will be the end of the chat and we will wait and see whether all of these words from players and manager add up to anything on November 23.