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Right Back Where We Belong-Vida 31

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Submitted by nevillenixon on Fri, 18/09/2020 - 13:04

With most fans hoping and praying that the rumoured take over bid for West Ham has more legs on it than Hammers' troubled defence, there is one acutely 'painful' reality that has to be faced, namely that all the billy big bollocks clap trap about moving to another higher level has failed to materialise since leaving the Boleyn Ground four years ago, in fact in most observers opinions the only 'other' level the club is potentially going is down.

The move to the London Stadium was supposed to generate funds and was seen as an opportunity for the club to expand it's already large fan base, the shiny new stadium was supposed to attract talent from all over the world, drawn like moths to a light. Sadly none of the hopes but plenty of the fears have been realised, even ahead of the 'Diangana Gate' scandal it was obvious all was not well at 'Camp Misery', the Covid-19 pandemic giving the club's owners and hierarchy the excuse they needed to 'rein' back their spending.

It is one thing to rein back spending, it is another to totally halt all investment and then follow that up with the relatively wholesale departure of players and virtually a complete lack of new blood coming in. David Moyes' thoroughly justifiable mantra for the need to bring in young hungry players to the club looked like it was going to be upheld, especially judging by the arrivals of Jarrod Bowen and Tomas Soucek, alas that was the sum total of the club's acquisitions.

The banality of pretending the club are just waiting to pull the trigger on the James Tarkowski deal is matched only by the hypocrisy of club statements, the grim reality is that the desperate need for two new full backs has not gone away and while 'bargains' from Wigan and other lower league teams have gone elsewhere West Ham are now left feeding on scraps, and to that purpose step forward 31-year old Croatian Domagoj Vida.

It is not that Vida isn't a decent player, but does he bring anything better to the club than the current incumbents? Not really, he probably represents a slight improvement, although that wouldn't be too hard, but at 31 years old he is the complete juxtaposition to the young hungry lean and mean template Moyes has set out.

Unfortunately this is what things have come to, and the more rumbling about a take over there is will only mean one thing, and that is the owners most definitely putting their hands in their pockets when it appears they are getting ready to jump ship. If and it is a big if, the club do bankroll David Moyes towards the end of this window it will be good, but the caveat would be if the board put further funding in they are highly unlikely to part with the club, in the short term at least.

So as has been said regarding West Ham on several occasions, "be careful what you wish for". - Ed

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hammergirl's picture

In the next two weeks lol.Much as we dislike them look at the spuds kept quiet no as you say Billy Big Bollocks to anyone who will listen nope they kept everything quiet and then Bam in comes Bale and that took everyone by surprise but there was no low balling no crying to the media we are trying to do a deal etc nope just kept quiet as long as possible and only came to the fore when it was so late in the day they could not be gazumped.

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they will not sell the club while the 20% tax pay back clause is payable and that means it will be 2023 at the earliest they are shroud business people .So another 3 years of this at best

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they will sell about Christmas time or before but in the sell out money will include the fine money they will have to pay if sold before 2023

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Maybe the only descent move they made was bringing Doris with them ,i heard there was fierce bargaining goin on ,Brady wanted to replace her with a Kenwood teasmaid ,also Tesco wanted her to fill their opening for a canteen assistant at a much better hourly rate ,i did hear they were offering £15 an hour ,a huge increase to the £ 7 an hour she was on ,we were lucky to hang on to her ,Sainsbury's were ready to make a bid as well

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Talking about Diangana, I am watching the Everton / West Bromwich game and he picks the ball from the centre line and runs all the way to the Everton box past the backing defenders to score a cracker past Pickford. Something that our 45 million Pounds Haller cannot has not yet achieved. Well done G & S as You can now get some random ageing player on loan who gets injured for the rest of the season!!

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