I don't believe this! Brescia are in talks with Diamanti but they can't afford to buy him and they can't afford to pay his wages either! Have we become Manchester City overnight, able to fund players to perform for other clubs whilst meeting payments on our £100million debt?
This is a bloody nonsense. Diamanti was our second highest scorer last season and that was without Zola ever using him in his best position. If nothing else, he is a useful sub to replace Dyer when Mr Tesco Value Battery drains down after 70 minutes!
Grant clearly doesn't fancy Diamanti but I can't believe we are even considering this deal. Of course, our old friend Nani is behind the approach. Boy has the Brescia Godfather taken us to the bloody cleaners one way and another!
at least he shhots form outside the area, I'd keep him just for that!!
ReplyDeleteill be gutted if we sell Allesandro. His left peg is the only class left in this team. If we replace him with Taylor I can only think Grant has fallen for the idiocy that is "british is always best"
ReplyDeleteHowever if we use that change to bring in a decent centrehalf then all is forgiven.
Reluctantly I'll have to agree with you again HF (twice in one day now!).
ReplyDeleteIn a squad full of hardworking midfielders, we have very few creative players that are able to add that special element of the unknown to a game. The clever pass, tricky step over, stunning free kick, pin point corner.
OK we all know that he'll probably always struggle for a first team place but he would always be a regular sub in my team and is just the type of player that a lot of West ham fans pay their money to watch!
Utter madness if he goes and Kovac, Spector etc. stay.
Be fair Juan Chance, Boa shoots from outside the area and is about as accurate as Diamanti when the ball is moving as it is hit!
ReplyDelete1541, you will be sleeping with me next!
ReplyDeleteHear hear HF - sense at last and no mention of the BNP - even better!
ReplyDeleteGrant has no eye for a player. That's why Diamanti is leaving. UTTER DISGRACE
ReplyDeleteThe BNP are a bunch of brainless, racist thugs. What's the harm in saying that?
ReplyDeleteHF,
ReplyDeleteThere is hope even amongst them. Did you hear of the BNP guy that became a Muslim?
Stani, why not put together an article on why exactly you think Grant is the wrong man for the job? Barerra and Piquionne looked our best players on Saturday and they are both Grant signings. Hitz has looked impressive pre season and most think he will do a good job when fit - another Grant signing.
ReplyDeleteNow, tell me the good Zola signings? McCarthy? Zola pressed for his signature. Diamanti? On his bike soon. Ilunga and Behrami arrived pre Zola. Jimenez? He was brilliant wasn't he? Tristan? What a joke! Kovac? LOL! Savio? Up there with one of the club's worst signings ever! Mido? Ilan? Franco was a decent stop gap I accept but Piquionne looked much more mobile on Saturday.
You will blame Nani, but Zola allowed the situation. Turds dug his heels in and then walked rather than have a bunch of misfits and no hopers foisted upon him. Grant is, at least, in control and thus far, on a very limited budget, has done well in the transfer market. Reid looks iffy but is young and has time to develop, like Da Costa who I think was a good Nani / Zola recruit (but he was just a way out of the Savio mess!)
First half, we played our best football for a long time. Had the penalty gone in, I think we would have seen a different result. I also suspect that we would have seen a different Villa had the first game of the season been at Upton Park.
Grant has made mistakes already - that team at Villa Park was far too negative - but it is far too early to condemn him yet. I will give him the same chance I gave Zola. If he cocks up, as Zola did, I will respond appropriately, but to damn him after just two games is daft and puts you in the, "Let's hope we do badly so Zola looks good" camp. I think you are better than that! Rise above it mate. As they say in Pulp Fiction, "That's pride fcuking with you." Zola had to go, now give Avram a fair crack of the whip - which is exactly what he could ask for in those massage parlours allegedly!
Zola didn't sign the players, that wasn't his job or responsibility. He said so himself, his job was to coach and manage. You can't blame him for something that does not fall under his job criteria.
ReplyDeleteActually, I'm in the "Let's do bad so we can get rid of Gold, Sullivan, Brady, Brown and Grant and have our club back" camp. The one you will eventually join :)
Here's that link by the way. I have the actual article at home and that has his picture in it if anyone's interested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/24/religion.uk
Of course Stani, the Hindus may be right and this might just be the ultimate Hindu reincarnation punishment. Come back as a BNP supporter initially and then convert to the Muslim faith! ; }
ReplyDeleteYou are a manager Stani. Would you agree to somebody else doing half the job for you and then not accept the consequences. I'm no fan of Turds but he was right to make a stand over Nani. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Zola was a fool to agree to the arrangement. Like he was a fool to say he WANTED to work with a smaller squad and a fool to persist with tactics that everybody could see were not working given the personnel being employed! Zola, Nani and Duxbury were all in it together. Who knows who's voice was uppermost in the Jimenez deal, for example? Zola was certainly keen to accommodate the Chilean, even when it was obvious he was crap. Remember the Everton game?
1748 - In pre-season I read that Grant said that he thought Diamanti was a special player, and correct me if I wrong but didn't Diamanti say he wanted to stay?
ReplyDeleteThis Bollox - can only be Sullivan's doing......
BNP RULE YOU NOB
ReplyDeleteHmmm back again. Doesn't nob need a k on it?
ReplyDeleteAnd then go to heaven? What kind of punishment is that!? :)
ReplyDeleteHF,
That is how the set up was with Duxbury, Nani and Zola. Different clubs have different set ups. Some have directors of football who buy players, some have directors of football who don't buy players. Some clubs have managers that are texted the team by the chairman chairmen on the morning of the match (Graem Rix at Hearts....and some would say Grant at Chealsea), so responsibility is shared differently. Buying players was not Zola's responsibility so he can't take blame for that.
Blame him for what happened on the pitch but you can't blame him for what he had to work with. And that has been my point throughout, that our players have been rubbish. I think you are beginning to see this more.