I do not believe it! First Duxbury and now Nani has been shown the door. Do the Diddy Davids know what they are doing I wonder? How in God's name can they sack Technical Director Nani, the guy with a roving brief to sign players from a very compact region of Italy?
Do they not know that this is the man who was able,thanks to his fantastic ties with his former club, to capture that brilliantly precocious talent Savio? The lad didn't cost us anything like £11m in the end; the true cost was more like £5m, a snip given Savio played in a total of 11 games for us, 10 as a substitute! Compare the cost of Savio's time on the pitch to Dyer's, and you will understand what a bargain the boy was!
Then there was Jimenez! Remember Duxbury telling us how Zola was going to build the team around this fantastic Nani capture? Good God, such was the brilliance of Nani that he spotted ability in the guy that even the Special One hadn't identified! Trouble is, it was so well hidden that nobody in England spotted it either!
And don't forget Lopez! I won't! I witnessed his debut at Watford and thought we were playing the Michillin Man at left back!
And then there was Tristan of course, that brilliantly talented lamp post who spent three months getting into such fantastic condition that he was once spotted breaking into a ten yard jog at Upton Park. And don't forget Di Michele, the four goal a season striker! And Da Costa, who we may see play again one day. And Ilunga, who was superb until he landed a permanent contract. And Kovac, whose signing necessitated the sale of Collins (who is a central figure in a Villa defence that, statistically, is the best in the Premiership this season!).
True, he identified Diamanti and Behrami, but even Turds managed a couple of good signings - Upson and Parker.
As with Tottenham, the Technical Director role has failed completely. I have no time for Curbishley but his principle of the manager having the say on who is bought and sold (within reason) has to be right. So it is goodbye Nani and good riddance in by book!
With the players he bought and the wages they were on, I wouldn't use Curbishley as support for that principle HF! That guy is the other extreme....he is the name that Chairmen all over the world will use as support FOR a technical director :)
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Nouble - English
Franco - Mexican
Vose - English
Wearen - Irish
Purdy - Irish
Set up Academies and Feeder Clubs in America, Canada and Bermuda.
Set up a Feeder Club in Hungary, a Feeder Club in Belgium and set up a Feeder Club in Italy.
Identified and organised the new training ground facilities and set-up.
In 5 years time, we'll look back and wonder, why the fuck did we let him go for nothing!?
Oh yeah, because Hammersfan told the Dildo boys to shove it a bit further up his backside while they wrote out his redundancy package!
whats with the sarcasm on this site. How about some opinionated comments on news. Not SARCASM!!
ReplyDeleteOne man's sarcasm is another man's irony. Oy, Chaucer, what's with the sarcasm, how about some opinionated comments on the corruption of the Catholic Church?
ReplyDelete1840, Why are you giving him credit for Vose exactly? Did we not have an Academy before Nani arrived? Carr? Who is he? Cottee, Ferdinand, Lampard, Johnson, Carrick, Cole, Defoe, Noble, Stanislas, Tomkins...Nah, that guy Carr is bloody hopeless!
Maybe, just maybe, Clarke knew something about a Chelsea kid called Nouble? Absurd idea that the ex Chelsea man might know more about a Chelsea player than an Italian I know!
Franco? A useful stop gap but will he be with us next season? With the World Cup over, I doubt it.
And the others? Let's see if they ever kick a football for the first team eh? And again, maybe Carr and the club's reputation for developing kids deserve some credit?
Do you support West Ham or are you just a cronie of Duxbury and Nani? Maybe you're a Spud, trying to undermine the new owners, fearful that they will steer us clear of the maelstrom into which Duxbury and Nani guided us!
I think it's another case of out with the old and in with the new.Somehow I think it will include half our squad if SULLIVAN and GOLD get their way,with all the high earning under performers on the books.I think they are both waiting to see how this season pans out before they add to the sackings at the club.I am not sure whether they have confidence in ZOLA and CLARKE to start investing in building a new team if money can be found.Every match now it seems questions are being raised concerning tactics employed ,players used,substitutions made,formations,style of play ,that an air of discontent is developing against the management and coaching staff.Personally I think ZOLA should have followed DI MATTIO'S example and developed his abilities in the lower leagues,and built his reputation up ,and his management skills that way.It seems he is learning the hard way ,in his first full season of premiership management,often by trial and error as he resolutely presses on to save our season.I really like the guy,but somehow I get the feeling SULLIVAN and GOLD,are not going to wet nurse him and will be looking to install their own man,possibly sooner rather than later.Inexperience, and no proven management success was always against ZOLA ,and I guess SULLIVAN and GOLD won't want to make the same mistakes again in appointing a greenhorn.If ZOLA doesn't resign first,then I can see him being sacked in the summer for a new man at the helm.
ReplyDeleteAn old man at the helm Essex. Prepare for the return of Turds!
ReplyDeleteBeen there ,done that.Didn't like his style of football.No to CURBS.One of these will do for me:
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Jose Mourinho
Fabio Capello
Sir Alex Ferguson
Roberto Mancini
Carlo Ancelotti
Manuel Pellegrini
Louis van Gaal
Guus Hiddink
Arsene Wenger
Yep Essex and for tonight I'd settle for one of Angelina Joeli, Cheryl Cole, Kera Knightley or Uma Thurman to share my bed. Hang on, what am I thinking of, if we are in fantasy land I'd settle for any two of them! ; )
ReplyDeleteWhy not go the whole hog,have the lot.! If we enter the realms of speculation for a moment ,who the heck can you think of that is half decent who could be a genuine candidate? I listed there the 10 top wage earning managers....When you compare them to the crap we have had to put up with over the years,there's no comparison is there.Thats half the reason why we haven't won anything for 30 years!
ReplyDeleteThe other half is that we are paupers in the transfer market,we feed off the dregs of the top clubs.
ReplyDeleteWill SULLIVAN & GOLD ever get that combination right,then us fans may have something to cheer about.
ReplyDeleteIt's Nani seeing as you love correcting people.
ReplyDeleteThe last 10 posts on West Ham Till I die received 915 replies which is an average 91.5 replies per post
ReplyDeleteThe last 10 posts in this place received only 119 posts (of which most slagged you off) which is an average of 11.9 replies per post
Which makes their blog is 768% more interesting than yours
It you use the same ratio at your current counter visit of 274349 it means over the same period they've received millions and millions more hits than you.
westfans.org - thanks for advice fanno - well seeing as there's been discussions about ratios and your obsession with your counter - just popped over and noticed they have over 1,000,000 posts - you'll never catch them mate...
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0952, how many years has the Org got under its belt? Quite a few! And it is a FORUM, not a blog, so anybody can post up an article. Except when somebody contributes a main article, everything on here is generated by myself. WHTID has also developed into a forum, the main articles are largely bland and pro establishment, as is the case with Nev's articles at the Org, which is why independent thinkers are banned on both sites. This site is a completely different animal. I am not interested in sucking up to the Duxburys and Curbishleys of this world because I am not seeking exclusive interviews, contributions to my political slush fund or free prawn sandwiches. I run this blog for fun and because I am passionate about West Ham. I am sure that is why Dale and Nixon started their sites but I'm not sure that is now the primary motive. Dale can't even be arsed to write the majority of the lead articles. Being a media head and a would be MP are more important to him than West Ham. I suspect there are more genuine reasons for Mr Nixon given the family tragedy. He deserves huge credit for keeping the site running through all that but his contributions are occasional now - it is del, Aycliffe and co who keep the site alive.
ReplyDeleteYou misinterpret my feelings towards the Org. Why do you think I link to the site from here? I don't want it to die! If you are honest, and know the site, you will admit that it is a pale shadow of what it once was sadly. I know you will blame Fanno for that but Fanno has not been on there as Fanno for a loooooonnnggg time and far from recovering, the site is deteriorating. On the front page of Current Season presently, the threads have had the following number of replies: 19, 12, 2, 43, 5, 1, 5, 1, 52, 4, 3, 5, 19, 29, 4, 3, 6, 5, 5, 3, 6, 8, 7 & 18. Back in the old days, threads would rack up over 150 replies sometimes, and most would be in the 30 to 40 range. This site is not a forum so the number of replies is not fundamental, what counts is the number of hits. A forum recording such a drop in hits is, sadly, a forum that is struggling. I hope the site recovers but to do so, it needs more intelligent contributors to lead the debates. del is still there but so many of the other major contributors have gone, or only look in occasionally.