Forum | General Discussion

Wouldn't you adam and eve it! Matt Jarvis, massively over priced winger arrived from Wolves on big money, for big money, and did relatively bugger all while at the Boleyn. As soon as Jarvis moves on loan to Norwich, he manages to achieve that 'hen's teeth' moment and actually score a goal! The other over priced import who has left the Boleyn having expensively arrived from Liverpool, Stewart Downing, scored for Championship club Middlesborough. As both players were brought in by Sam Allardyce, it is little wonder that their 'frailties' would be exposed once their mentor had departed, because as most people know, or are about to find out, "Billic doesn't like bullshit" but both players scored!- Ed

Morgan Amalfitano looks as if he will be the first of several West Ham United players to be sent out on loan now the 'emergency' transfer window is open. During the window, players may be loaned from the Barclays Premier League to lower league clubs for up to three months. Championship team Ipswich Town have expressed an interest in taking Amalfitano, who has fallen out massively with Hammers manager Slaven Billic and has been banished to train away from the first team. Hopes of a reconciliation between Amalfitano and Billic, who is well known for his tough disciplinary approach, have not come to fruition, thus making the player's position at the club untenable.
30 year old Amalfitano could well end up in the same team as ex-hammer Freddie Sears, who has been a great success at Portman Road since his arrival via Colchester. Ipswich are currently third in the Championship but were beaten 3-2 at home by Brighton in their last match.
Some West Ham fans will be sorry to see Morgan Amalfitano leave the club, but he does have a growing reputation for being indisciplined and perhaps dropping down a division will show him what he is missing, and what he must do to try and rebuild bridges. - Ed

Any Hammers fan who was at the Boleyn the evening Slaven Billic was presented to the crowd before the FC Lusitans Euro Championship game, will tell you the atmosphere was electric and that the fans 'took' to their new manager in a way they could never have with Sam Allardyce. Billic looks right and sounds right, and away from home his teams perform a bit more than right! Any incoming manager needs the crowd behind him, and Billic has that, he also needed the co-owners to back him in the transfer market, and to all intents and purposes they have done that and more some. So now the dust has settled on the memorable 3-0 trouncing of Liverpool at Anfield and a breathtaking transfer window, Slaven Billic has to now do something unusual for a West Ham manager, and that is to keep a group of very good players happy, when many of them will not be getting the game time they would like. The club have signed an entire team, and it is to be hoped that new players and old will be able to embrace their manager's approach to the game, and most crucially his squad rotation. This ability, having been honed as an international manager, will come more to the fore when the winter campaign kicks in and players start to fatigue and pick up injuries. One thing for sure is that Billic would rather play with ten men and possibly lose, rather than risk keeping an obviously injured striker on the pitch at the end of a game where he had used all his substitutes!
It will take time for players, owners and fans to get used to the 'Billic revolution', but it will be worth the wait - Ed