Is his West Ham career over?

I will always be grateful for Freddie Piquionne’s goal that saw off Tottenham Hotspur last season. We don’t beat them often so it was one of very few highlights in an ultimately dreadful season. And it has to be said it was one of very few highlights in Piquionne’s West Ham career.

Since Avram Grant brought him with him from Portsmouth, Piquionne has scored eleven goals in 40 appearances for the club,not a disgraceful ratio, but not good enough from a forward.

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When we went down I thought he might be a useful player in this division, but he struggled to find his way and quickly fell out of favour under Big Sam.

Now we’ve brought in even more attacking options to try and seal automatic promotion, we’ve let him out on loan to struggler’s Doncaster Rovers. So is there a way back into the side after his loan spell, or is he too far down the pecking order?

 

Typically, in his first game for Doncaster he scored a thirty-yard screamer, something I wasn’t sure he was ever capable of. We could have definitely done with that from someone against Watford and Doncaster for that matter, but he probably wouldn’t have done it in a West Ham shirt, considering he never did in 40 appearances.

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However, our attacking options aren’t exactly setting the world alight at the moment. Carlton’s hold up play is still good but he seems to scuff his shots more often then not, and the jury is still out on Nicky Maynard and Ricardo Vaz Te for me, although Vaz Te has looked lively. Sam Baldock makes positive runs and proved he can finish but rarely gets the sort of passes that a striker like him needs to get goals and it’s not quite happening for him coming of the bench. Perhaps he deserves a starting place?

Personally, I think we lack the ability to create chances more then anything else, but Allardyce seems convinced that our inability to finish them off is the big problem.

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Either way, I’m pretty certain Piquionne is not the answer, and I think he will probably remain on-loan for the season and leave permanently if we do get promotion. However, if we continue to struggle for goals at home, and the signings fail to succeed, Sam might get desperate and bring him back to try and give us a boost. I sincerely hope it doesn’t come to that.