So, Guido Rodríguez regrets moving to the Premier League, and Niclas Füllkrug can’t settle in the UK either… just another day at West Ham, I guess.
But this most ridiculous situation does beg the question: how have the Hammers ended up signing both of these players in the first place? The most obvious error lies with Füllkrug, whose injury record—brilliantly detailed by Matt this afternoon—gave every indication that he was likely to end up side-lined sooner rather than later.
A far harder metric to measure is how well a player will settle overseas, but one would have thought this might have been explored before the transfers were completed. That being said, the two players are different cases. Rodríguez, for instance, is clearly ill-equipped for the fast-paced Premier League, while we don’t yet know whether Füllkrug would be good, bad, or indifferent in the EPL.
However, it seems he hasn’t settled, likely for personal reasons rather than footballing ones. Given the close relationship between Tim Steidten and Füllkrug, one would have expected this to be properly assessed before signing off on the £27m transfer.
As for Rodríguez, someone surely should have spotted that he was too slow for the English game and would struggle at West Ham. Julen Lopetegui’s tactics have placed far too much pressure on our sluggish midfield, leaving them chasing shadows they’ll never catch. I do believe the Argentinian is a good player and could thrive in La Liga, though I’m starting to seriously doubt whether Barcelona were ever truly interested in signing him.
Ultimately, for all of West Ham’s structural changes, the same old problems persist. We’re haemorrhaging millions on strikers who don’t work out and signing players unsuited to our style
Go just go put NOBLE in charge for rest of the season.
100%
.wan bis and summerville were the only decent signings..fulkirg is up there with one of the worst transfers ever .
Injury aside 27 million for a 30 year old striker this is after years of trying to get a young decent striker ..Palmer we let go Duran we let go …Antonio ings 30 already here and crap basically…so you would think even west ham wouldn’t go and buy another 30 year old striker .
My god they did and knew he was Injury prone to 🤣🤣i mean ffs come on….that’s past stupid …whole new level of stupidity…….its used alot ..but these so called professional who run the club are literally clowns 🤡..its that bad it makes it easier not to renew season ticket or even care anymore…this club is run so so bad it really is unbelievable
Lopetegui is clearly a demanding coach and his fingerprints are on several of the signings . Between LOSEpetegui’s demands and Sullivan being cheap as well as Steidten requesting a different managerial choice I wouldn’t be surprised to see Steidten leave sooner rather than later . Steidten has made some mistakes but really his super power is talking players into coming to a club which Westham struggled with many times in the past . The Fulkrug signing sucks but remember Steidten wanted Duran and Sullivan said no . Rodrigues is on a free and probably could be sold for a profit .
Just highlights how poor our recruitment has been now…..
Everyone was saying back in the Summer we had won the transfer window,looks a ridiculous statement now doesn’t it.
Brighton won that hands down plus the fact they got a young modern manager with fresh ideas unlike us where we went cheap as usual and are now paying the price.
If we keep this Manager on a successful season for us now would be to stay up, I think we are heading down though with this geezer in charge, we are that bad
It’s bad enough we can’t yet get rid of Lopetegui but even worse is David Moyes still hanging around posting his opinions on this website. Bugger off Moysie!
The sooner we can get these 2 wasters out of our club the better!! Neither are fit for purpose.
The biggest wasters are Sully, Brady & JLo!