Rafa Benitez joined the managers union on TV tonight where he was clearly touting himself about!
With so many games available for him to comment on this weekend, he chose to make himself available for a match where Pellegrini is surely the next manager to go and the former Arsenal manager Unai Emery has gone.
Sean wrote this afternoon that it would cost around £23 million to to get him into West Ham and let’s be fair Steve Bruce is doing a far better job than he did at Newcastle.
Now in China where the money is good and the football unimportant, he arrives in the Sky Studios and at the end of a terrible Hammers display decides to back the manager.
He said: “I think he has the experience to turn things round and should be given the chance to work with the players he brought in. I think he can do it.”
Of West Ham’s defeat he explained: “They made more and more mistakes defensively in the second half and that allowed Arsenal to take control.”
Yes and that is the fourth time in six games we have conceded three goals and are you really saying this guy will turn it around.
Maybe on that basis it isn’t worth spending £23 million to bring you to West Ham mate!
I have been saying this for weeks. Pellegrini has to go and quickly. Tonight, we lost to a very average team and once they scored their equaliser they played us off the park. Heads dropped. Effort was gone along with discipline and shape.
If the board continue to sit on their hands they are betraying our great club for which they will never be forgiven.
And if they do act, I hope they bring in a British manager. I have had my fill of foreign managers who fill our squad with foreign players who are here for the dosh and certainly not the pride of playing for the badge.
I am getting to the stage where I do not want to go to the games and I am not alone in this. We are being asked to watch and support a very poor team that has been collated by a boring sterio type manager who uses the same clichés and excuses after every game. God alone knows what he does during the week in training to correct the deficiencies of this squad.
Sorry but I am ashamed and very disappointed in our team.
He has not got the experience because he does not know what an English relegation battle is.Not been able to turn it around for weeks so what is going to miraculously change Mr Benitez?
It’s nonsense to say Steve Bruce is doing a far better job than Rafa did at Newcastle.
We’re not even halfway through the season so it’s impossible to judge at this stage. Newc have had some decent results recently but that could change quickly.
They finished 10th and 13th under Rafa and had very little money to spend.
This is the problem Hugh.
What decent manager wants to come to manage a side that in truth is lacking in so many areas… PLUS we have three muppets as directors who are so over their heads in modern football for 2019 they don’t have the financial resources to back a manager… Many of the players just don’t put in the hard graft to win matches… We need younger Mark Nobles who love West Ham not these fancy shmancy do nothings that are here for a paycheck. Let’s get some players who bleed West Ham instead of players that bleed the club dry.
West Ham will always be a nothing club unless we get HUGE foreign investors. The Dave’s are an embarrassment to our great club, but it’s cha ching for them and they won’t go quietly it’s time for a fan revolt!!
Get em out!!
Personally I found it interesting to hear him talk on defensive organisation. I think our central defenders are not bad, so there is something to work on. But Pellegrini does not know where to start. I agree Kenny that going to this stuff destroys your soul. Can’t take much more of it. We have been taken for mugs. This time it is the Championship for us -even a top manager might struggle to turn it round.
Are we seriously suggesting that Snodgras, who credit to him is one of the few to put a shift in, is a better option on the right than Grady Diangana? That Haller gets no service or support? A 45m buy who is forced to run around with limited support like a headless chicken – he must wonder why he came to us. That our transition from back to front is so laborious and slow that every team is set up well before we exit our half we don’t create any half chances, that ogbonna apart we fail to gave a proper defence – relegation is staring us in the face