The Three Monkeys brigade will be outraged. The orgsters will be in a proper tizzy. How very dare he? The guy must be a Tottenham supporter! Tony Cottee has only come out and criticised the club's failure to invest in the team and used that forbidden phrase, "a struggle against relegation" when lambasting the board for not spending in the window.
Interestingly, Tony has praised both Nice Guy Zola and Scotty Duxbury in his statement so perhaps the Great Puppet Master has used him as a mouthpiece, employing a West Ham hero to voice his support for the Commander In Chief and so head off any suggestion that The Great Puppet Master has stage managed this whole situation to curry favour with the very employers that Cottee is criticising. Remember how Blair loyalists were used to brief against other members of the Party?
I am regularly accused of being negative so does that now make Tony Cottee the depressed traitor that many of you accuse me of being? Or does Cottee have the best interests of the club at heart and is he speaking out because he is genuinely concerned about what is going on at West Ham?
You can't have it both ways guys. If Cottee is a West Ham man, then maybe, just maybe, this blog has been speaking up for the best of reasons after all. And maybe, just maybe, the Three Monkeys should take their hands away from their eyes, ears and mouths and start facing up to reality!
14 comments:
God almighty! Can't you ever stop knocking the club you profess to support.
I believe that you really would be happy if WHU were relegated. Then you could delight in telling people how right you were.
What matters to you is not the fortunes of the club but whether you can score debating points on here.
Put a sock in it! We're all heartily sick of the attacks upon our club.
Who are you talking to, Cottee or me?
I rest my case.
(I was not aware that Tony Cottee had taken to scoring debating points on here.)
''If you do the math, not only have they not invested but they have made significant net gains from selling good players like Savio and Collins (about 14 million) and replacing them with fringe players like Diamanti and Da Costa (net cost of 7-8 million). Moreover, they have gotten rid of high salaried players like Lucas Neill. The worst is that the official website gives the most lame excuse for not completing the Chamack deal - ".. the player didn't want to come to West Ham!".
If we were to believe that, then at the very least they have totally mismanaged the transfer (because that is the first thing you ask before you make a move for a player) or that they have just used that as an excuse to cash in on James Collins. What does that tell us about the club?
I agree with Tony. A bank recovery team cannot run a Premier League club. Not for too long for sure(I am the Head of the Recovery Division of a Bank and believe me I know what I am talking about). They must sell as quickly as possible in order to save West Ham from going down the Portsmouth way. It may be too late for Portsmouth but there is still time to save West Ham United.
Keep up the good work Tony. Hope you can come up with something soon (I can help with the financials if you want). West Ham United with its history, being a famous and proud London Club and all should be great value to a serious investor who knows what he is doing. The potential is tremendous if Zola and Clarke are given some money to strengthen the team. But CB Holdings should sell get out a.s.a.p. For their good and ours.
anon ,are you totscum in disguise?HF makes points and you whinge at them but don't answer them.Have the
balls to say something
Keep up the good work, might not always agree, but is a good read :-)
Cheers to the last two!
That's a stupid point with all due respect. Quashie is neither cover for centre back, nor is he unavailable through injury. They mentioned Dixon who is not a member of the first team squad! Admit it, they forgot Davenport and that was insensitive!
Well said Savvakis!
What I dont understand is people, Cottee inculded, who say there has been no investment in the squad when clearly there has. Last year West Ham had a number of loan deals with options to buy .... Three went arse up and two were good deals so they bought them ... Ilunga and Kovac to name the two. We have a mentality that these guys were already there .. They were not - they had to be bought and good deals they were too. We then, this year, have got a goal keeper, two defenders, two strikers and I think some young fella called Lampe .. The younger players like Nouble are shrewd investments but all of these cost money. Now by all stories we had another striker wrapped up but he would not come. Tough titties I guess. BUT clearly we have invested and cleverly at that. It tells me that money we got last year from Bellamy was redirected to the playing group. Collins going and Savio going generated some extra funds which were going to the new striker - didin't happen so maybe January maybe not- whatever one feels about the Januar window. By that time perhaps Nouble and Hines have developed and Daprella has come along too, who knows. Point being is that the club have invested .. not as heavily as say S***s ..but shrewdly with an eye for the future. And it seems other clubs are in the same boat .. In fact the Liverpools of the world look in deep crap crappy klint. So I say get off the clubs back because they look, to me, to be operating shrewdly and the next six months will tell us just how shrewdly. But dont say they havnt invested .. this is clearly poppycock.
Plenty of people can see we haven't got enough options up front - Green, Zola, Sir Trev, Cottee, fuck me even my girlfriend who knows nothing about football can see that one senior striker doesn't cut it in this league, but there is a difference between trying to muse your celebrity and connections with the club to put pressure on Straumur and a miserable blogger feeding his own ego by constantly running down the club.
Your whole nature is to try and score points of Orgsters - who cares!!!
I agree in the large part with 19.38 it's a petty game of one upmanship where you spew negative rubbish and then base your responses on wind ups.
I see you bought up Davenport again... What the hell has that to do with the post?
The only thing more tragic is that I felt the need to comment.
Cheer up saddo
I am a spurs fan but I read this daily as it is always good and informative, seems like other commenters don't like people expressing their opinion. If you don't like it then stop reading it!!
'I am a spurs fan but I read this daily'
Nice to know who your core readership are.
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