At two another current Hammers first teamer, Carl Jenkinson.
‘Jenko’ has come in and been a revelation at right back; he once again produced a magical ball in on Sunday for Andy Carroll’s equalising goal. The Irons have been crying out for a decent right back for years and he seems to be the missing link.
This is silly…”until we are regulars in the Champions League, so two or three years time then”…..This is smug; you are letting this very enjoyable run go to your head. Regulars?? We have never been in the Champs league, let alone regulars! You sound like we have qualified already. Even if you say the comment is tongue in cheek, it belies an underlying feeling of sincerity about it.
Whilst it does feel a bit different this time (and hopefully the owners will not sell off our best players like in yesteryear), beware the old saying ‘WestHam go down with the Xmas lights’… Let’s just keep our feet on the ground… And remember, getting into the Champs league / Europe brings massive problems; look what happened to Newcastle; they got relegated the next season! Look how Liverpool have struggled. I don’t want West Ham to qaulify for Europe until we have a far deeper squad than the already good one we have…”regulars in the Champions League”???? Ha! Maybe one day, but not till we have proved ourselves to be regular 5-7th in Prem with a full Olympic Stadium…But under Sullivan, Gold and Allardyce things do seem to be belying our noose of “Fortune’s always hiding”….Credit to them and hopefully we can rub shoulders with the best one day, but not for a while yet
1] Alex Song
2] Carl Jenkinson
3] Mark Davies [ Bolton ]
4] Carlos Zambrano [ Centre Half – Eintracht Frankfurt ]
5] Eder Alvarez Balanta – [ Centre Half – River Plate ]
Along with the signings of Alex Song and Carl Jenkinson , I think the two centre halves of Balanta and Zambrano along with the guile of Bolton’s Mark Davies would really push us on in the 2015/2016 season , our last at the Boleyn .
If Davies is still struggling with his knee injury then Yoann Gourcuff from Olympique Lyonnais would do .
Along with Song and Jenkinson I think the signings of two strong centre halves in Zambrano and Balanta along with the guile of Mark Davies would push us on for our final season at the Boleyn .