Manuel Pellegrini seems to have become the Asp that keeps on biting, not only did he and his accomplice fleece the club of all it's funds by buying expensive players unsuited to the Barclays Premier League and then not using them correctly, but also there is now visible evidence that those same players are now performing admirably elsewhere, albeit in Leagues that suit them perfectly, is it something to do with the old curse?
Rumour has it that a figurine was burned in a ceremony at the London Stadium not long after David Moyes rejoined the club on a permanent basis, 18 months after having been 'jilted' for the flare of Manuel Pellegrini. Apparently druids were rumoured to have been involved at the behest of board members, in a desperate attempt to finally lift the Gypsy's curse that had been hovering over the club ever since the previous owners had arranged to have an old family of travellers evicted from property near the Boleyn Ground with a compulsory purchase order that had only a derisory settlement. The 'Lot', that was used to store old scrap and recycling materials, had been earmarked as part of the proposed ground expansion plans to increase the capacity to 48,000.
Whichever way you look at it our tongue in cheek observation, which is based entirely on rumour and gossip and could be completely without foundation, it is incredulous how appalling Hammers transfer record has and the dreadful luck associated with it has been ever since then, that was until NOW. Well, not exactly now, more like since the Moyesiah returned, suddenly the lame began to physically and metaphorically walk out of the club to be replaced by their polar opposites!
For Yarmolenko and Wilshere, read Bowen and Soucek, but the glaring expenditure and huge financial loss on both Sebastien Haller and Felipe Anderson refuses to go away. You can only imagine the board grinding their teeth as the reality dawned that these players were Pellegrini play things ill suited to the rigours of what is the most frenzied league in World Football!
Or was it the curse as well? How can players arrive, play well initially and then become useless? It became a growing trend at the club made more noticeable because the players were expensive duds as opposed to the usual cheap duds fans were used to. Anderson and Haller have both excelled at clubs that are suited to them, we will know if their performances at West Ham were as the result of poor utilisation or bad juju soon enough if they continue in their current rich vein of form.
The positives are, that the club has now seemingly broken free of it's transfer curse, we will discover if there REALLY was any truth in the curse rumour if Roberto manages to win this year's Golden Glove award! - Ed
