Watching the Bindipper game yesterday and the struggle that young Scarles was having with arguably the Prems player of the season he clearly needed backup and a word to calm his obvious nerves facing that man but not one of Mav Tod Kil helped him guided him gave him any sort of encouragement and so the Lad suffered and learned a harsh lesson which begs the question do we have any real Leaders at West Ham?
Kilmans post match interview blimey he was so quiet and clearly not a personality that is going to give you earache and a kick up the arse if you are not pulling your weight.
Bowen a leader? not really for me a great player but leader give over...how many times this season have you seen him try to close down the opposition and be totally isolated as nobody goes up with him and you see him looking back waving for assistance but it rarely arrives.
Alvarez? not really not on the pitch long enough most games? Soucek lovely man but again i do not see the will to drive his fellow players on and looking throughout the squad i see nobody who can do that.
Does it matter some say but of course it matters when the managers had his talk and you cross the white line you need that leader that player the other players look up to who may even fear what he may do if you are not pulling your weight and doing your job on the pitch a leader drives you on demands you do better no matter the circumstance but we just do not have that kind of personality and we need one we really do otherwise players just drift by in games.

How many low ball bids this summer?and silly stories about huge money bid which will come to nothing because of wages and ffP but we tried lol.

I thankfully will be away for most of it this summer and miss all that shite and thankfully the over hyped club world club nonsense...

As for my predictions as to how many low ball offers we make well all of them of course.

Lamine Yamal......Kvaratskhelia......Marquinhos... three must buys this summer lol but i think we may just miss out and get instead Charlie Kelman...Ryan De Havilland...Jay Stansfield instead.

I'm not impressed.

I've not seen any evidence that we are seeing any improvement on Moyes or Loppy.

He focuses on defence, 5 / 6 across the back and not getting a battering. Just one nil down we are in theory still in the game but statistically with so few shots on target this strategy will never work.

11 games in charge, still his best football was his first against Villa in the cup but that's because some of the players were still in Loppy mode, prepared to venture forward.

I feel a lot of WH fans are upset with the quality of football, selection and decision making on substitutions etc is appalling. That said I also feel that is kind of off side to criticise him, its the elephant in the room, the board have made another hopeless appointment and they, and we, are just HOPING it will come good.

Fact : At Brighton he had a 12 month period of just 5 home wins and the board are worried about season ticket sales. Looking at home performances who would wonder?

just to be clear, hes a nice guy and I dont blame him, the blame is with the Board recruitment which is franking shocking. For as long as Sullivan is in control we are always going to be left behind the likes of Villa, Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace etc etc

Welcome back to the prem ,for me ,an auld lad and telly couch potatoe it's a life saver and to have 2 weekend breaks so as we can watch England play Albania and Latvia and a couple of F A cup matches is a travesty.

We are not getting relegated so Please Mr Potter lets try and play with a bit more purpose in these final games...Give Guilherme a Start Orford and Scarles as well Apart from the Spuds game there really is no pressure on any of the games....yes the higher you finish the more prize money you get but sod that lets have some Entertainment it is not to much to ask is it? i mean its like a mini preseason before the real preseason.

In the words of the one and only Mr Ian Dury. Although I much prefer "into the kitchen Mother, the kettles got a hard on, you cant call that dripping it hasn't got no lard on".

Ask yer Grandad kids, anyway I digress.

With 9 games to go and nothing to speak of to play for. I've no doubt that Potter will be experimenting to a certain extent. He's sured up the defence and they all look like a proper unit at last. Todibo if we can get 90 mins out of him, Is the perfect partner for Kilman. Scarles and AWB are excellent wing backs. Although not his best game, Creswell is slotting in nicely at LCB. Although I do expect another upgrade of Potters choosing will come in the window.

Bowen and JWP apart. I think the rest are all auditioning so to speak. I expect Guilhereme to start being included more. As Potter will want to see him before the window opens. In case there is a star in there somewhere. Orford will get more minutes in midfield. He won't be going anywhere and Freddie Potts will return.

Potter is playing the long game. But not gambling or being reckless in his formation choices. I'm certain he has probably already got a good idea of who he wants around. More importantly those he does not.

I'm not getting down on Ferguson or Fulkrug. Potter will know if he wants either or none to stick around for the new season. I suspect we will see new faces. As Potter at last gets the chance to build his squad in his minds eye.

Then we can judge him. As for digging players out now it's pointless and achieves nothing. Its a new era for us and thankfully we are in safe hands it seems...

A summer ahead where we need strikers and we need legs in the middle of the park.. we all know it so does Potter but the cupboards bare is the cry from the board and if we are to believe it what do we do about it?.

Promote some youth and hope they can step up and player sales obviously......So Mavs first out the door i think we all agree on that and maybe £12/15million at best Mr Marmite man Soucek rumoured to be wanted by he who shall not be named well a possible £25/30million at a stretch Kudus would love his buyout clause to be activated but it wont so say £65million so with three players taken out of the squad & Genoa want Cornet! snatch there hands off at any price we could be sitting on a pot of just over £100million add to that the alleged £50million+ that if you believe it Sullivan bid for that Villa bloke then things maybe not as bad as it would appear.

With contracts up at the end of the season a hell of a lot of work will be needed to be done on the squad and faffing around till deadline day will not cut it this time around so stop teasing supporters with names that we are never going to be able to sign and be more realistic and build a team not a squad of names or just players because they are cheap no proper due diligence has to be done and it had already better of started.

Pacman what a Conundrum even if his name is cleared would he want to stay? would you want to keep him? and of course the Aguered Question which IMO really is not a biggy sell him on and if R.Madrid are interested try £40million see if they bite if they do then a very healthy pot can be used to build the team that Potter wants.

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