Monday, 24 January 2011

West Ham Close In On O'Neil!

It's back on! O'Neil is coming! And for real this time! It was all true. O'Neil was discussed at a Board meeting and an agreement was reached to make an approach for him. The information was leaked to the press. The record of the text is fine. The club are happy to confirm it after all. And we can expect O'Neil to join this week.

Martin O'Neill? No! Gary O'Neil, the Miserableborough midfielder.

The lengths the Brady Bunch will go to in order to cover their tracks!
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12 comments:

  1. fred14924 January 2011 at 19:02

    decent signing but wrong wing

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  2. Hammered24 January 2011 at 19:57

    Another waste of money... :(

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  3. Sav24 January 2011 at 20:08

    Now let me see! We saved 4-5 million from not sacking Avram Grant and bringing in O'Niell, we sell Behrami for 4-5 million, that makes 10 million in. We then purchase from the bargain basement O'Neil and we get on loan a guy who has actually failed his medical only a week ago. Then, of course, we pay the huge salary of Bridge until the end of the season (but no worry, when we get relegated we will just ship him back to City). That seems like good money business: IN, 10 million, out 2-3 million at the maximum.

    What's more everyone is happy because we now have 3 new players and have been very active in the January window like everyone wanted us to. Brilliant. We are going down with the same certainty that an apply falls from the tree to the ground!

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  4. Hammersfan24 January 2011 at 20:35

    Change the name to Jonah Sav! For pity's sake, the club is hugely in debt! We face the prospect of relegation. The owners are being circumspect and sensible. We have the left back we needed. We have a forward we needed (who hopefully is fit enough to play) and we now have a midfielder who can run and cross the ball. He may not be Messi but he has been signed for a specific purpose and you don't have to be Messi to do a job for the team. Zola, in a stroke of idiocy, sold Etherington and never replaced him. He used Behrami on the right of midfield even though behrami cannot cross a ball to save his life. Bridge, Jacobsen, O'Neil, Ba, Piquionne, Hitzlespurger, Barrera...they have all been signed to do a specific job, to plug holes in the squad. Barrera has not worked out but Piquionne has and Jocobsen was looking good until his injury - far better than Spector or Faubert at right back. I also think Ben Haim did a reasonable job too and Obinna is "in and out" and may yet play a role in saving us. Grant is operating on a tight budget as we know and seems to be milking the market pretty well to me. You, of course, are desperate to see him fail so will not want to see that. As for the owners, I would rather they protect the club than gamble spectacularly and we still go down. I don't want us to be the next Leeds. Build a squad that MAY survive and can bounce back if not seems sound management to me!

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  5. Sav24 January 2011 at 21:16

    I would change my name to whatever you like if you change yours to Harry's Fan. I surely don't want to see West Ham go down just to be able tell you "I told you so". I am not HF. I love the club and I can never want it to go down even if its going to prove me right. But what I don't understand and it is the point of previous post is how is it that a Club in trouble as we are is considered to do the best possible to stay up by spending less money in January than it receives from transactions?!!! Look at Aston Villa. They are serious. They are spending over 25 million just because they found themselves near bottom. We spend less than we collect in January. How are these players we buy with a few pennies likely to be better than what we have already?!!!

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  6. Hammersfan24 January 2011 at 21:52

    They can't be much worse!

    Villa's debt doesn't compare with ours and Villa collected £25m for the sale of Milner. They have spent £18m on Bent so far. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a £7m profit so far? And, of course, Villa also sold Barry last season for some huge sum.

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  7. Anonymous25 January 2011 at 00:18

    Sav like Stani - we love you! you are West Ham trough and trough - we never want the mighty hammers to go down just to prove a point.

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  8. Patrick25 January 2011 at 00:24

    Hi, love the site, first time poster, however im sorry i have to agree with sav here, half if not 3/4 of the west ham squad will be sold off if we remain in the bottom 3 by the end of the season. This has nothing to do with safe planing, its being tight and wanting to show investors that our club is for the milking.
    Reducing the clubs debt (which they have already done a very god job at) is one thing, but we need action in this window. We are CLEARLY lacking a bloody striker and im sorry pinning our hopes on a man that failed a medical only a few weeks ago for Stoke is not the solution, not matter how well he played in Germany. Robbie Keene should be signed, hes a safe playmaker / striker that has a proven track record in the prem, which is the same reason bent cost 18m, but ofc he has youth on his side. I dont like the idea of a gamble at this stage and personally i will be well piss with our owners if they get this window wrong.

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  9. Hammersfan25 January 2011 at 07:09

    Cheers Patrick. Keep contributing now you have started. If three quarters of this squad was sold, that wouldn't be a bad thing, but who would buy them? Look at how we have struggled to find a taker for Behrami! The truth is, the squad Grant inherited was shite.

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  10. Stani Army25 January 2011 at 16:05

    00:18
    Irons! ;)

    HF,
    ....and he added shite too it! Now they cocked up his sacking they have to reluctantly try and spend so the team can get us out of trouble.

    Sav,
    I think Ba can be handy for us as long as he stays fit. But it shows our desperation that we have to settle for injured players. O'Neil is a decent signing but probably 3 years too late. Nevertheless, he is industrious and has a good end product be it a pass or a finish. For the reported £1.7m, and at the age of 27, I think it's a very good deal. If it means Stoke return with that £4m for Noble then all the better! Certainly if Zola was given this support, he'd have done much better.

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  11. Sav25 January 2011 at 22:07

    Please Stani, don't start this Zola vs Grant debate with HF again? I think we all had enough of this futile debate. As far as I am concerned, they both leave a lot to be desired. Thanks for the compliment 0:18! We love you too!

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  12. Stani Army26 January 2011 at 01:11

    Na Sav, that debate was won the minute G&S decided to sack their own man Grant. They cocked it up of course, but that's a different matter.

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