Coffee 9:55 Wed Jul 17
Best first team as of now
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Fabianski
Fredericks ---- Reid ----- Balbuena ----- Diop
Yarmolenko ----- Lanzini ----- Rice ----- Fornals
Anderson ----- Chiachirito
Forget this afternoon, that looks good.
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Coffee
9:56 Wed Jul 17
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Oops.... Haller.
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Browno22
10:06 Wed Jul 17
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Fucking Reid in and pushing our best CB to LB?
YOURS
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Lily Hammer
10:14 Wed Jul 17
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Someone slipped a Micky Finn into that coffee.
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The Stoat
10:15 Wed Jul 17
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Coffee 9:55 Wed Jul 17
Certainly not that one
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Takashi Miike
10:17 Wed Jul 17
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Fab
Fred - Balb - Diop - Arthur
Rice
Yarmolenko - Fornals - Lanzini - Anderson
Haller
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BigLump
10:19 Wed Jul 17
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Yep, Mikes looks pretty much how things will line up for the first game.
Barring any panic sales or injuries.
Doesnt look too shabby, hardly world beating but we'll do ok
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Dave Boozle
11:50 Wed Jul 17
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Can see Antonio starting ahead of Yarmolenko at the beginning of the season.
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tnb
12:28 Thu Jul 18
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I just can't see Lanzini and Fornals in the same team. Far too open having them both central with only Rice holding, as good as he is. We've seen him trying to play deeper before and I've not been convinced. And we don't have the option of pushing him wide left now either with Anderson.
For me it is...
Fabianski
Fredericks, Diop, Balbuena, Masuaku (I disagree but Pellegrini doesn't it seems)
Rice
Noble (or ideally an upgrade), Lanzini or Fornals
Yarmolenko or Antonio, Anderson
Hallar
Whether that means Lanzini goes at some point we will see.
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torino hammer
12:34 Thu Jul 18
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Takashi Miike 10:17 Wed Jul 17
seems ok to me with a strong subs bench with options
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zebthecat
12:41 Thu Jul 18
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Takashi Miike 10:17 Wed Jul 17
Yep but I'd be tempted tempted to have Noble instead of Lanzini and go 4-2-3-1.
If all our attacking midfielders fire we are not going to be short of goals.
There will, of course, be the odd thrashing but that is the West Ham way.
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torino hammer
12:56 Thu Jul 18
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also agreed
I imagine MP has in mind a different approach to Home and away games and dependent on the opposition
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the exile
1:08 Thu Jul 18
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Surprised none of you has Wilshere in the side. I guess we're all so used to him being out injured, but when fit he's the best central midfielder we have, so for me he takes Lanzini's place in Miike's team.
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Any Old Iron
1:09 Thu Jul 18
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Takashi Miike 10:17 Wed Jul 17
That midfield might provide us with quite a few goals but it will leak more goals than you've probably ever seen.
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Alfs
1:24 Thu Jul 18
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This is what's great about the squad we're building. We actually have OPTIONS now.
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Takashi Miike
1:44 Thu Jul 18
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AOI, it's how we lined up in some our best performances last season. rewatch the everton away game you had noble & obiang pushing forward when we were in possession and giving us the four man midfield behind the striker, with rice always deeper. I'd love to have another great CM/DM alongside rice but we don't have one. of course noble will be starting but I just think it will be a waste permanently sitting either fornals or lanzini on the bench for an inferior player
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claret on my shirt
1:54 Thu Jul 18
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Noble will be in the starting XI end of story
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Vexed
2:14 Thu Jul 18
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the exile 1:08 Thu Jul 18
On what evidence? Even when fit Wilshire has been shit for us. Looked promising today but it was a Mickey mouse game.
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East Auckland Hammer
2:36 Thu Jul 18
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Alfs 1:24 Thu Jul 18
We've always had options. They always just been really shit ones.
I heard Pellegrini say that our forwards are Haller, Hernandez is sticking around and Antonio can play up front too because we have plenty of wide options.
I'd still like us to have another recognised striker to add to that list because I don't fancy having Antonio up there when Haller ends up spending half a season in a wheelchair.
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Sven Roeder
8:05 Thu Jul 18
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I think the point is that when you pick an 11 there are players that it’s hard to leave out and will give us options in games.
Or when some miss due to form, injury or suspension.
I don’t see Noble and Wilshere on the pitch together or maybe not even Lanzini and Fornals (especially away).
That’s a good thing not a reason that one will leave.
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Coffee
8:07 Thu Jul 18
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Vexed 2:14 Thu Jul 18
On the evidence of his career to date. By age, he's now at the peak of his career and should have several more top years ahead of him, if he stays fit. Pellegrrini acknowledges it was a risk to bring him to West Ham, but must have had some kind of indication from medical staff that he still has a future.
He's now fit, they say, and with a run of games (which he hasn't had properly for years) the sky's the limit.
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