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£27.1million bid for him this will please DITM as he is the kind of defensive midfield come playmaker he hopes we get....
£27.1million bid for him this will please DITM as he is the kind of defensive midfield come playmaker he hopes we get....
Just seen the music thread has been bumped up again so I was thinking on a tangent and wondering what everyone's favourite theme tune fo TV shows, films etc. the one that always stands out for me is the persuaders. John Barry I think. Never get board of it.
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West Ham United have signed 18 year old Montenegro International Sead Haksabanovic on a five year contract for a fee of around £3.5 Million from Swedish club Halmstads BK, is he one of the "ones for the future" Co-Owner David Sullivan hinted at when recently discussing the club's recruitment policy, or is the plan to try and unleash him on teams that have never seen him?.
Haksabanovic was handed his Halmstads debut in 2015 at the age of 15 and the attacking midfielder went on to make 70 appearances in Swedish football virtually keeping the club afloat. Haksabanovic represented Sweden at youth level before switching his allegiance to Montenegro and made his debut for the national side in June, he came on as a substitute in Montenegro's 4-1 World Cup qualifying victory over Armenia.
"I'm really happy to be here , it's a dream come true, West Ham is a big club and it is a nice feeling to have signed, the move happened quite fast, we heard that they wanted me, so I was interested to hear the plan for me and when I did I was very pleased." beamed Haksabanovic to the official www.whufc.com site.
So there we have it, another talented youngster arrives at The London Stadium but what will happen to this obviously gifted player? Well he's not very big! Some might wonder how he would react to the pace and physical demands of the Premiership, others assume he has been brought in as cover for Manu Lanzini in case he gets injured or suspended. The other option is to send him out on loan, but why buy a talented player and send him out on loan before at least giving him a chance to show his worth? It seems that Slaven Billic is keen to retain Toni Martinez, Declan Rice and Nathan Holland from the friendlies for some form of first team duties, will he do the same with Haksabanovic without running the rule over him thoroughly?
When Martin Samuelson first arrived at the club from Manchester City great things were expected of him, and indeed he showed a lot of early promise, but then injury, loss of form and loss of confidence took a massive toll on the lad. It is obvious that West Ham do want to bring Academy players and other youngsters through the ranks, sending prize prospect Reece Oxford out to Germany the club want him to learn freed of British footballing shackles. right from the beginning Slaven Billic was very vocal about protecting and nurturing Oxford. A similar approach seems to be happening with Josh Cullen and Reece Burke.
What confuses a lot of Hammers and indeed a lot of other domestic club's fans is, why do young players arrive at high profile clubs for insane money and play straight away at an age, when domestic teams seem frightened or unwilling to give their young players a similar opportunity?
West Ham United are definitely not Chelsea, and are therefore unable to 'stock pile' young players and send them out on loan, the club has to try and think outside the box, maybe giving youngsters significant cameo appearances but then take them out the firing line for a while, a sort of player guerilla tactic of hit and run. After all it was that element of the unknown and youth that saw the first memorable victory of Billic's first season as manager, away to Arsenal when no one had given West Ham a prayer! - Ed
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18 attacking midfielder from halmstadt bk...£3million they say so is this another for the development squad or is he the answer and bilic has pulled off a coup....not got a clue myself but i am pretty sure he will not be in the first team this season unless he is truly exceptional.
Just read if we are drawn at home in the cup we are going to have to play away as the stadium STILL won't be ready to play in. And here's the cruncher WE will have to pay our opponents Compensation! We are so Mickey Mouse!
reading Bilic's remarks after the city loss, he says basically that to have any sort of chance against big teams you have to have all your players fit, and you have to make no mistakes at the back. whilst i agree with him on the latter, I'm not so sure this is the right approach. we are a premier league side, we are in the league to compete. I'm just not a believer in all this defeatism when we are up against big sides. basically he's saying unless we have a fully fit squad and some luck we won't beat anyone 'better than us'. correct me if I'm wrong but is his job not to ensure that when we play bigger clubs that he finds a way to gain advantages elsewhere? what i mean is and you can take a leaf from allardyce on this, there is more to the game than trying to play 'good football'. it worries me that we have just become a nothing sort of club now. we converted from the drab direct stuff of allardyce but now we have become a southampton or a watford perhaps…a team that plays the same way as the big clubs but has nothing near the same in quality of players. the result - its going to be a tonking 9 times out of 10. Bilic made an impact in his first season, he transformed us from the direct style into a counter attack side that even the big sides struggled against..why? because there was a game plan that played on their weaknesses. many times last year i watched in horror as we took to the field against city and co trying to play basically the same way they set out to play. i had hoped bilic would take the summer to reflect and to decide on his tactics and plans etc. pre season tells me he's learnt nothing in this area. someone like benitez will adapt his line ups, his style to look for ways to win matches, bilic seems to have become a poor mans guardiola, sending the same line up out match after match to play the same way regardless. once in a while you will get lucky, things will go your way…but overall you will be a nothing side, getting thrashed here and there and having mourinho and conte saying 'we played good football' after they take us to the cleaners and looking forward to the 3 points in the return. i may be old school, but managers of the past, especially those english ones of old were tacticians as well as coaches. putting an extra midfielder in there to do a particular job, i.e. close out a play maker, playing two up front to press a weak defender etc. i know i play too much FM these days and maybe get carried away but i hated it when Zola would give a press conference before a big match and say we've got no chance, mind games maybe but he did it so many times it just sent a message of why are we bothering. lets not forget this is a sport, a game of competitors . the balance of power favours those with the most money but there are points to be taken from tactical approaches. it doesnt have to be pretty, but it does need to be effective. i don't mean throwing andy carroll on with 10 mins to go and hoofing it up to him desperately after going 4-0 down at home to city…i mean some real thinking and planning. maybe it was simply luck in his first season but he had a plan that worked on several big clubs, the pace and power troubled them at the back…..so why did we abandon this in search of a more 'total football' approach? Slaven please wake up man, we don't want anymore 5-0 home defeats to city and co this season…we want to compete against them all. get it done.
just seen the gooners beat chelski(shame eh!) by the new pen shootout rules have to say i liked the format of course you prefer to win the game in normal time but if not this was refreshing.
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