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Why ‘Too Risky’ Stance Means West Ham Will Never Get Best in Class

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West Ham’s explanation for rejecting Ruben Amorim as a potential replacement for David Moyes sheds light on why the club didn’t pursue interest in Arne Slot either.

Speculation circulated yesterday that Amorim had agreed personal terms with the Hammers, only for the deal to fall through when David Sullivan reportedly refused to pay €10 million in compensation to Sporting Lisbon. However, the club has refuted this claim, acknowledging that while discussions did occur, there was no concrete deal.
A top source revealed to Claret & Hugh clarified the real reason Amorim didn’t succeed Moyes: “He could be an amazing manager, but he’s only done it with one club in his own country. We all thought he was a big risk,” claimed our insider at the LS.

While this assessment slightly misrepresents Amorim’s career (Sporting is his third club in Portugal), it suggests that at 39, he was deemed too inexperienced to be entrusted with leading the Hammers.

Liverpool’s Slot has started the season impressively at Anfield, yet comparisons with Amorim are obvious. The Dutchman, slightly older at 46, is still regarded as a young manager. Like Amorim, Slot has managed just three clubs in his country, achieving remarkable results with the relatively modest Feyenoord, overcoming the Dutch big hitters Ajax and PSV.

Slot’s record closely resembles Amorim’s at Sporting, where he turned the club into regular league contenders against Porto and Benfica. It seems West Ham are very cautious about young, promising managers and places a premium on Premier League experience. This indicates that even if another innovative, young manager begins winning trophies abroad, he may not be in the running for the top job at the Hammers.

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16 comments

  • Ozziehammer21 says:

    I’m afraid we’ve missed the buss again! Klopp was almost a manager at West Ham but went to Liverpool, Amorim was almost a manager at West Ham and will be successful at Moan Utd and as a West Ham supporter I just get used to the same old poo, highs when we almost sign a manager or a player only for the board to have second thoughts and watch our season crash n burn. 9 new players and manager the best we can hope for is lower mid table but building for our future I’m not sure in this modern world the board know how too. As a supporter I get used to the way the board bluff their way through. I hope the current manager can put up with the BS and misreporting coming from the boards office. Another one that got away.

  • Bib says:

    And yet we spent best part of 20 million on 31 year old sick note.maybe they should of said he was a player at 39 would have suited our profile

  • Bill Ryan says:

    Good job klopp wasn’t on steidten list Sullivan would have rejected him as to risky these actions just shows how much he holds this club back,no real ambition and what most fans thought is now proven right I hope amarim makes him squirm, I don’t like united but dislike Sullivan a whole lot more

  • B says:

    Sullivan took a risk with Zola who was 42 at the time. Bilic was 46 but they both knew the premier league as players at least. Every manager since has been over 55 and has managed before in the premier league

    • Alan says:

      Zola was appointed by Scott Duxbury, prior to Gold and Sullivan coming in. They sacked him at the end of their first season at the club before appointing erm…Avram Grant.

      As for Bilic, his first season is my favourite under this mobs ownership.

  • Alan says:

    With Sullivan it will always be someone who’s unemployed to avoid compensation and usually someone who is late 50’s / early 60’s in order to tick the experience box.

    Why doesn’t this ‘big risk’ deter the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United from making this type of appointment? Or even Brighton and Bournemouth looking at their current appointments.

    As long as Sullivan is the owner this will never change. Bizarrely always willing to pay over the odds for a Felipe Anderson type, but managers and full backs, he really doesn’t like spending out on. Very odd.

  • Luke says:

    Your in dreamland if you think we were ever really in contention. He was using us as leverage for a bigger job.

  • Clacton Rd Iron says:

    Experience? And how much First Team Managerial experience had John Lyall had at age 34 when he won the FA Cup in 1975?
    It’s so boring having been saying it since Sullivan and Gold took over in 2010 – Fourteen long largely miserable years ago – Sullivan remains and Gold was parasitic vermin of the worst kind – having sold Upton Park and put the proceeds in their bin – Sullivan remains the same old two bob spiv doing everything as cheaply as he can. Nothing will improve for the better until he is gone.

    • Bill Ryan says:

      Sullivan achieved what he set out to do which he failed at at Birmingham which was to sell the ground for real estate and move to a stadium which he didn’t have to build but Birmingham didn’t get the commonwealth games so instead he sold Upton park for less than it was worth and made his money add to that charged the club interest on loans and has become a billionaire on the back of it , people say he saved us I say he used us

  • Andy Stone says:

    If a manager/coach is older they may or may not have experienced bad times. Bad times nearly always end in the sack.
    Imagine West Ham attracting an experienced manager/coach that hasn’t experienced bad times and therefore never been sacked. Two issues there.
    Firstly, how could West Ham attract such a manager/coach? No, more chance of attracting a unicorn.
    Secondly, a coach having experience and not being unemployed due to not experiencing bad times would be employed so out of bounds for Sullivan.
    This leaves has beens in nearly every instance that could possibly be employed as our manager/coach.
    Like Donald Trump, Sullivan is comfortably in his 70s so hopefully not long now.

  • Joethewindsurfer says:

    Surprised Not. We all know what’s going to happen don’t we? Amorim will get off to a winning start and by seasons end will be getting rave reviews. Meanwhile, Loppy’s West Ham will meander around mid-table. I’ve always thought Prem experience is hugely overrated. It’s just football wherever it’s played. Guardiola had none nor did Harland. They’ve done OK! I would have loved Amorim. Sullivan is a dreadful owner. We’ll never fulfil our potential until he’s gone. Sooner the better

    • Easypeasy says:

      How easy to manage Barcelona or City. I’d like to see him have a go at taking over a team in a relegation scrap.

  • Bennyboy baker says:

    Honestly I don’t believe that it was a case of lack of experience that caused us not to bring in Amorim or slot to manage our great club it was down to being to mean to spend the money required so we end up with JL purely because he didn’t cost Sullivan anything which really shows how his meanness is holding the club back in reaching the next level you would think he would have learned that lesson from the past

  • Deej says:

    Cue Amorim being a disaster, and the C & H follow up story…
    “West Ham dodged a bullet”.

  • Andy ⚒ says:

    Good old Sullivan. Parasite

  • Phil Baker says:

    Having a quality manager implementing modern tactics is the only way any team can be truely successful . This is the reason Westham have consistently failed for 50 years or more and will continue to do so until real money is invested in first class managers .

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