I’m just gonna come out and say it…I think this current West Ham team is the best we’ve had since the days of Paolo Di Canio, Freddie Kanoute, Jermain Defoe, Michael Carrick etc.
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I look at our current squad and it’s literally littered with quality: Guy Demel is easily the best RB we’ve had since Glen Johnson made that position his own back in the 02/03 season. James Tomkins, Winston Reid and James Collins are a solid trio of CB’s who every once in a while pop up with a goal or two. LB of course is a bit of an issue but hopefully that conundrum is about to be solved in the shape of Martin Olsson and of course after his performance against Manchester United no-one could have a problem with young Dan Potts filling in.
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Our midfield (with everyone fit) is an embarrassment of riches; the power and presence of the likes of Mohamed Diame and Alou Diarra (who we’re yet to see play together but one suspects when they finally do it’ll be akin to some of the great partnerships of this world…dare I even say Lennon and McCartney?) the grit and determination of our academy boys in the shape of Jack Collison and Mark Noble. The goals of Kevin Nolan, the guile, creativity and vision of our returning son in Joey Cole and the pace and delivery of our record signing in Matt Jarvis; even though he’s yet to justify his hefty price tag his delivery does worry opposition defences. To put is simply our midfield has a little bit of everything.
Our forward line is perhaps where we can still look nostalgically back to around a decade ago…not quite sure Marouane Chamakh, Carlton Cole, Wellington Paulista and Andy Carroll are in the same class as Di Canio, Defoe and Kanoute. Nonetheless with only one spot to fight for in the starting XI it’s fair to say whoever gets the nod will have to earn it and will have to face a real fight to keep it. All of our current crop of strikers have something in common…they all have something to prove; they’ve been written off in some quarters and are hungry to prove they’re not as useless as this country’s media would have you believe.
This season this squad is capable of a top 10 finish, if we can keep hold of the current crop and add to it in certain areas…the established top 6/7 might just be looking over their collective shoulder in years to come.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha……
Ooooh tot scum keep on ya own sites you ain’t welcome on ours COYI ( will u come)
Lloris>Jaaskelainen
Walker>Demel
Ekotto>McCartney
Vertonghen>Collins
Kaboul>Reid
Sandro>Diarra
Dembele>Diame
Lennon>Cole
Bale>Jarvis
Ade>C.Cole
Defoe>Carroll
Oh yes what a great squad lool, your next job is to find a non west ham fan who disagrees with the fact our whole first team is better than yours man for man.
In order to finish top 6 you need a squad better than what you have
I think we are years and years away from a genuine challenge to the top 6/7. Even then it will probably only be achievable with a rich Russian sugar daddy.
I will be absolutely delighted with top 10
Oooohhh, best squad for years. Lol. Still only good enough for bottom half of the table. Probably relegation next year!
Tis the most honest post ive seen for a very bubbly time!!! I can’t wait until our next game, the anticipation is killing me!! We will destroy those spuds no probs! They my think they are the big boys in london town but we will cut them down to size!!! Our squad is quality and they will find this out the hardway’!!!! Avvv ittt!!!!
Yeah like in your last cup final….
your a millwall fan, have fun ending bottom half of the championship..again
Nice positive article for a change. Bravo!
The ‘bubbles” song? Ha ha ha.. # i’m forever flower arranging! That’s how silly it sounds..
such a funny blog,if this is what u eejits think is a top notch squad well then yis are as deluded as i always thought,Joe cole,dont make me laugh lol
Last time I checked this was a West Ham fansite/blog. Why fans of other clubs are on here spewing their bile is bewildering! Have you really got nothing better to do with your sad lives! Jog on you mugs!
fuckin idiots
What are you smoking/sniffing/injecting? Your present squad isn’t a patch on your old squad, not even near. The players you mentioned from the past are class, your present team is average mid table drivel. Carroll is on loan, Diame will leave for peanuts when his clause is met. In fact I can’t even be bothered to write anymore as you’ve probably overdosed by now.
wont be long before there back were they belong,tripe team,tripe players,tripe manager and as for the owners.oh my god…..a bunch of plonkers
Wank mid table team (this year) relegation next with their best ever squad. Shit club, shit stadium in a slum of an area. Soon to move to the Olympic stadium to become a laughing stock.
Go and get a life f * *k wit go and grind a hole u scumbag
Non West Ham fans…your opinions on our team/squad are really not welcome nor relevant. Us Hammers fans know about our team a hell of a lot more than you do. So don’t worry about us and we certainly wont worry about you.
It really is sad and pathetic that you feel the need to spew your unwanted bile. Focus on your own club. Not ours.
Kwame do us a favour and stop talking rubbish we have as much right to comment on other teams as you plonkers do.
Spuds will be nothing when the diving monkey fucks off to a decent club.
I love the way the Flids have a pop, let’s remind them where Defoe, Kanoute and Carrick went, they downgraded, Carrick, after learning his trade at the Academy has gone onto be (in my opinion) one of the better midfielders in the country and Lampard has won virtually every club trophy in Europe, not to mention the glut of England caps and goals he has…..oh yeah, l forgot Ferdinand, another product from West Ham. Just remind me, how many Millwall players play for England and when were they last in the Premier League? How about NEVER…..mugs……..COYI ‘><'
Down graded???? Ha ha ha ha ha
I love getting a reaction from people like you….makes you look really stupid, but then agai, if the Kippah fits eh? lmao……..COYI ‘><'
I havent heard the word Flid for years-I think someone else said plonker too! classic!
from a very amused brixtonhammer lady x
Let’s face it your team ain’t gonna get higher than mid table at best. As regards if it’s your best team in yrs no your still cap…….
What the fuck are you talking about? Seriously, what the fuck? it’s an awful squad, there is no other description. Mid table championship, with an horrific manager whose dismal tactics lead to awful teams such as Bolton, Blackburn and west ham (this season) achieving short term lower midtable finishes. In the short term. In the long term, these teams are fucked by the shear lack of quality. How many fucking times can ‘big Sam’ bring the same old tripe to the premier league? Nolan, O’Brian, Jaaskaleinen, Taylor, it’s just awful rubbish.
Any team where the goal keeper takes free kicks near the halfway line, while all the other players cluster in the oppositions penalty area hoping for a lucky bounce or deflection, should be relegated instantly. It’s depressing.
West Ham fans deserve better. A lot better.
Best squad in years. You silly little cnt.
Yid4Life I don’t get why ya feel the need to come on a West Ham fanzine and comment on a post that has nothing to do with your club! Fair enough if its a constructive comment to get a debate going but if its just literally ‘you’re shit, we’re great’ then I simply don’t see the point.
U Pikie wankers are fucking shit,live with it……scotty parkers top class :-).
By far the shitest team I have seen at the lane in years….but then ur team always let u down in your cup final….so slow and scared.pish outfit!!!!!!