Well, there’s no two ways about it, that’d be disastrous! I’m going to take a look into why. What effect will this have on the players and manager and possibly the owners? What effect will this have on our football? What about transfers…The only question I ask myself is, where do I start?
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The Club
From the owners to the supporters and everyone in between will take a knock if West Ham is not a name in the Premiership next season. The owners will have to take a look at what they are spending their time on, David Gold is said to be a regular face around the training ground and is always on his feet during the games, whereas Sullivan looks like a dog that’s lost its bone and doesn’t know where to look and has decided its not worth getting excited over anymore.
DG and DS are both putting too much time into trying to get West Ham into the Olympic Stadium in my opinion, showing more effort in and around the club will not only have a positive response from the players at the club it will also not go unnoticed by the
fans, who are clearly some of the most loyal fans in the world, boasting the crown of best away support this season.
The players mainly will be at the drowning end of a sunken ship if the team fail to gain promotion, with us having to sell off many players as the wage bill is already too high, something which David Gold has said all too many times. Let’s take a look at
what difference this will make on the outgoing and incomings shall we…?
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Possible Transfers
West Ham currently have a squad which should have easily gained promotion into the Premier League all too easily as we did not lose too many players from the squad we did have and the ones we did were the same players West Ham had been trying to get rid of for years. Luis Boa Morté, Kieran Dyer, Matthew Upson. To name just a few are players that we did get rid of that the supporters were all happy with.
This transfer window will be very, very different if we are still a Championship team. We will lose players such as James Tomkins, Mark Noble and Robert Green who are all loved by the club not only for their quality, but also their loyalty and passion and lose pure talent such as Ricardo Vaz Té; although he only joined recently (A 500k purchase from Barnsley on deadline day in the January transfer window) He is already 3rd top goal scorer for West Ham, scoring an impressive 10 Goals in 13 Appearances (2 as a Substitute). Overall this season (West Ham and Barnsley) Vaz Té has scored 20 Goals from 35 Appearances in the league (12 Substitute appearances). This boy knows where the back of the net is and is not scared to show that against any opponent, if we do not go up I think we will have to sell him off to lower out outgoing finances and I’m sure there will be a host of clubs willing to snap him up off of us.
We will also be unable to attract players to us that want to play at the highest level of football in England, it is a dream of many players to be able to play in the Premiership and without that we don’t really have much to offer.
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Style of Play
No teams in this league will fear us next year, they all know what West Ham are about and have grown accustom to us playing in their grounds and for them to come to Upton Park wasn’t something that particularly worried them this year so next year
it’ll be a doddle.
Big Sam has played his hoof ball style of play a few times this season and to me, it hasn’t gone down very well with the fans and just doesn’t feel right. Sam was quoted as saying “We can either win ugly, or lose pretty”, fair comment I’d say, if this is what was happening, but it’s not. Sam’s “hoof ball” style of play was not helping West Ham to win, just draw.
The club have drawn 14 games so far this season, with 44 games gone. That’s terrible… that is definitely not enough for a club that were expected to run through the league easily by many people.
Manager
When talking to fellow West Ham fans throughout the past few weeks, many have told me they’d like to see Sam sacked if we fail to gain promotion and replaced with someone else, although I can see why some people would like to see this happen, I wouldn’t. And no I’m not a “Sam Lover” I just look at the positives and negatives of a change in manager. Yes, we would get someone in who would play a different style of football and would probably prefer to play the ball along the floor which we consider to be “the West Ham way”, but on top of this he would also have his own
players in mind that he would want to have in his team and it’s not been long since Sam has chosen his squad and got them playing good football together.
I believe West Ham can do it; the second half against Birmingham and the game against Barnsley are the games we need to look at and take note of as these are the games we played at our best and showed what West Ham are all about. We play like that in the play offs and we’ve got it in the bag.
Come On You Irons! Lets show what we’re all about!
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There’s no way you can have a go at G&S if we don’t go up this season. They’ve backed the manager to the hilt with money. It’s his fault if we don’t go up, not theirs.
Stopped reading at this ridiculous comment you made – “as we did not lose too many players from the squad we did have and the ones we did were the same players West Ham had been trying to get rid of for years”
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Keane
Parker
Upson
Hitzlsperger
Kovac
Spector
Da Costa
Stanislas
Hines
Bridge
Jacobsen
Boa-Morte
Dyer
Gabbiddon
Obinna
Yep you’re right, other than that measly little 16 first team players we didn’t lose anyone did we?
and as you say we only lost the ones we didn’t want, after all none of us would like Ba, Keane, Parker, Bridge etc back now would we?
what a terrible article
Yeah we lost all them players but i sure as hell didnt miss Keane or Bridge :s Ba and Parker are fair comnents but i thought that was common sense. Aint gotta read it if you dont want to. Everyones allowed an opinion i dont mind nor care if ya dont wanna read it.
I think it is far too early to consider the unthinkable just yet. There will only be two reasons why we will not go up automatically- Reading and Southampton. Regardless of how we viewed our own chances we failed to beat either team and the table never lies. Sam has brought some stability and some excellent signings and promotion is still in our own hands(play offs). I still fancy us and if we don’t this year we will be stronger next year as the Davids will keep most of our best players.
What a poor article, the Olympic stadium bid is definitely a fantastic project and too get us in the running G&S have done very well, this is alongside tens of millions of pounds they have injected into the squad. Sam Allardyce is ultimately guilty of not knowing his best team, and to this day still doesn’t.
@Joe yeah the Olympic Stadium is a massive prospect but i dont think its fit for a Championship side so that is the main thing in my opinion. Also im against the move as i dont want to leave Upton Park so i suppose that may have influenced me a little in having a dig at that lol.
The bottom line is the team have created chances all season but for a good chunk of it have not been clinical enough in putting the ball in the back of the net. Yes at times its not been pretty but given a better chances converted rate we would have been automatically promoted.
We have not had a prolific forward, until we signed Vaz Te, so the whole team has had to contribute to the goal’s for column.
Gold, Sulivan,and Big Sam have taken us forward this season, and the green shoots of a freeflowing goalscoring team are starting to emerge.
Come on you Iron’s.
Shit article , tired of hearing ” hoof ball ” , don’t give up your day job . End of
Weren’t planning on it mate, enjoy ma job really 🙂
Utter drivel, poorly written rubbish. You could write this on the back of a fag packet.
What exactly do you think G&S could have done that thety haven#t?
THey can’t train the players
I don’t think any of us can moan at the amount of investment this season
So I don’t really know what you wanted them to do?
the only valid critiscm is did they get the right manager
What a load of rubbish. Even if we don’t make it this year we will have s tronger team next year and can you truly see another team in the play offs beating us! Possibly Blackpool if they have an outstanding day but otherwise we really should batter Cardiff and or Birmingham (who we really owe one to)
That point was pushed to one side in the article, we won’t have the funds to keep hold of out best players, do you really see Tomkins, Noble and Green in Claret and Blue next season if we don’t manage to get back where we belong… We won’t even be able to keep hold of Cole that’s how bad it’s going to be.
phil
don’;t think we’ll have a stronger side next year tbh
Green will be off, as will Faubert on frees
Tomkins almost certainly will go and probably Noble too
Wow someone with a bitta sense!