So news has just broke that Cristian Montano our promising young winger has turned down a new deal and now looks set to leave the club…but is this really a surprise? Not in my humble opinion.
Like Freddie Sears before him, he simply wasn’t given enough of a chance. Last season Montano was loaned out to a myriad of football clubs up and down the football league, impressing and winning rave reviews at each one.
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What was his reward for consistently performing at other clubs? Was it a spot on the West Ham bench? No. He was simply just farmed out on loan yet again, what kind of message does that send out? ‘Try as you like Cristian, but there’s a glass ceiling you’re just not going to ascend through.’
From what I saw of Montano he looks a player of immense promise; skillful, quick, with an eye for goal and he had the ability to produce something out of nothing. I couldn’t help but think last season during our avalanche of endless home draws he should’ve been given an opportunity to inject some much needed dynamism and creativity; but such a chance wasn’t forthcoming.
This club has a proud tradition of bringing through young talent…but when you look at Freddie Sears very rarely getting a chance since he scored his debut winner against Blackburn Rovers back in ’08 and Montano now seeking pastures new what does this mean for someone like Robert Hall?
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Hall is an exciting young striker who is very much in the mould of a Jermain Defoe in that he’s incredibly sharp, has a low centre of gravity and appears to be a clinical finisher. But what must he be thinking when West Ham are linked with striker after striker and another prospect he will have grown up with in Montano is leaving without barely getting a kick in claret and blue?
Unless we start to show a bit more faith in our youngsters I fear Sears and Montano wont be the last to fall by the wayside.
Montano was loaned out to four different clubs last season and still managed to come up with 12 goals, he simply deserved more.
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Hall, Morrison, Tombides, Turgott
All the same position as Montano and all beter prospects
“So news has just broke that Cristian Montano our promising young winger has turned down a new deal”
You appear to have missed the words “on KUMB.com” from the above sentence.
“Freddie Sears very rarely getting a chance since he scored his debut winner against Blackburn Rovers back in ’08”
Are you serious?
The guy had plenty of game time and quite frankly, couldn’t nail down a first team spot in the lower leagues when on loan
Two years too late getting rid imo
Freddie Sears was given several chances, unfortunately he didn’t make the grade
Was is it with Freddie Sears hero worship.
I think he was one of the poorest players, I have seen.
Even when he was loaned out he hardly scored, I remember a penalty he scored for Colchester once and that’s it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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sears was absolutely outstanding as a youngster, proberbly one of the best debuts of all time , and he is a claret & blue through and through , unfortunately a bit to light wieght ,still think he will come good just not prem material .
Not sure where you got that he impressed wherever he went because that just isn’t true, ie at Swindon under Paolo he was heavily criticised for attitude, punctuality amongst other things. If he was that good he would still have been there
I might have sympathised with this until I read ‘sears was given enough of a chance’. Sears simply wasn’t good enough and his present position proves that no one outside of the club felt so either. Good luck to him and working back up from the bottom might give him an outside chance to perform at a reasonable level but if anything he was given too many chances and sadly it was playing players of his quality that helped got us relegated in the first place and even the Championship was too high for him. We have to get over these things few West Ham rejects have later made it to an equivalent level and I predict Sears will not do so. Even if some fans have the tendency, the management can’t afford too many pairs of pink tinted glasses where decision makers are concerned.
Players do get released early in error – Terry Hurlock, Kevin Horlock, Leon Brittan, Ray Houghton, etc. Mostly they get released because they will clearly not make the grade at the top level – Stanislas, Hines, and Sears all had ample opportunity; Nouble, Olly Lee, Stech, and Matty Fry will hope that they can prove someone wrong but none of them had set the world alight at development squad level. With a seven man bench hopefully the likes of Moncur, Potts, Turgott, Elliot Lee and Hall will all get a taste of the action and two or three of them will come through. Montano had the chance to stay for a year and see whether he could have joined that group on the fringes, but he chose to move on. Let’s see in a years time whether he still merits a mention on the various websites!
Sorry to disagree but Sears was given many many chances and just isnt good enough simple as that and although Montana wasnt given as many chances there are other better prospects at the club.
He was sent to Swindon so he could learn from the great man and with a view to coming back a better player. If Di Canio didn’t think he was going to make it due to attitude problems etc and CM wasn’t willing to knuckle down and learn
then he was never going got make it at West Ham.
I notice some of you are harping on about Montano not doing it at Swindon with Paolo…just go and ask fans of Notts County who played at a higher level than Swindown last season what they made of Montano. Just ‘cos it didn’t work out with a club legend doesn’t make him a bad player.
Like some things in life, the current situation didn’t suit either party fully. He seems, from afar, a decent lad with some potential, but Big Sam isn’t going to take too many risks this year with his playing staff. The most any of them can hope for will be an odd 10 mins in the league and perhaps a Carling (or whatever it is this year) Cup game against lower league opposition. Good luck to CM and hopefully in a year or two, he can achieve what Leon Britton has achieved. I, for one, hope that he does. Why do so many not want any person to succeed unless it’s under their T’s&C’s? Jealousy?
Good luck to the lad in his future. I had hoped, like many to see him in the claret and blue. But he doesn’t deserve the abuse he is getting on twitter.