Sadly it’s becoming all too apparent why so many supporters shared so many reservations about signing Jack Wilshere at all – never mind on a three year deal.
If we believe what we hear, the board were among them – happy to do a 12 month contract – but given his injury record not at all keen on three years.
Manuel Pellegrini, however, is understood to have seen him as one of the creative midfielder that he so favours and as a result he was given that deal which is slowly beginning to look more than a bit worrying.
For hidden away, almost in the small print of the manager’s presser ahead of the Fulham match, was the news that once again the former Gooner – reportedly on £100k a week – will be missing at Craven Cottage.
He has made four appearances and one bit part showing at Newcastle and has been amongst the least effective arrivals at the club.
His ankle remains a problem apparently and this is already beginning to look like Andy Carroll revisited.
Ok, mistakes are often made in the transfer market but I’m not sure we have ever seen chickens coming home to roost quite as quickly as on this one!
We never should have signed him whether injured or not, as he is just nowhere near good enough for this standard. He played the first four games and we lost all. He got injured and look what happened. It does not take a lot to work out the reason why. A terrible signing not because he is injured but because he is not good enough. The same comment applies to Fredericks.
You cant say we lost the first four games because of him.
It doesn’t take a lot to work out, we lost those games because it was to soon for Pelle to get his method of play across, and we had almost a whole new team.
Both a gamble as free signings but should only have been for one year or eighteen months max imo
If only we’d had some indication he would be so injury prone……..
I wonder whether we would all be so quick to jump on his back if he was on £10,000 per week instead of £100,000… Money removes empathy. He’s a boyhood West Ham fan, and I have no doubt wants to be out there playing 90 minutes each week, but here we are again, getting on the lad’s back and chastising him for being injured and the manager/board showing faith in him. Even when things are going well, we just can’t help ourselves but to criticise rather than support. 🙁
exactly I will wait until the end of the season at least before i make any judgements. If you look at Pelles other signings they have all become good.
Pelle we trust.
The board should never have given in to Pelle on this one. Being a boyhood West Ham fan is irrelevant and the prediction I made before the start of the season that he wouldn’t start 20 premier league matches was made before we signed him, so his pay was nothing to do with my prediction. He was clearly going to be another Carroll and so it is proving to be. A thoroughly bad signing that should have been foreseen.
to early to say that imo