Alex G
6:18 Fri Jan 7
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So, if we assume from the clues:
- It's a player who had been at West Ham for a while before Antonio arrived (i.e. felt that they had a place in the team)
- Left a year or two later
- Is an attacking player
Then from the squad at the time Sakho or Valencia look like the most likely candidates. Carrol if you extend the left a year or two later quite considerably, Zarate if you reduce it to half a season. Joey O'Brien if Antonio thought he was being brought in as a right back!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_West_Ham_United_F.C._season
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charleyfarley
6:26 Fri Jan 7
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Benni McCarthy
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Briano
6:27 Fri Jan 7
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He didn’t say it was his current club, was probably Forest
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yngwies Cat
6:27 Fri Jan 7
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Someone with small man dick syndrome.
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Mad Dog
6:47 Fri Jan 7
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If antonio played in their position, it basically rules out goalkeepers... and that's it.
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ludo21
6:53 Fri Jan 7
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Stewart Downing?
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Fifth Column
6:58 Fri Jan 7
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Briano is right... I listened to it again and he does not explicitly refer to West Ham. He had been talking beforehand about West Ham and to be it sounds like he is going to continue to talk about West Ham but actually it could have been a previous club.
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Alex G
7:00 Fri Jan 7
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According to wikipedia Downing left a month and a half before Antonio signed!
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ludo21
7:00 Fri Jan 7
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Answered my own question... Downing didn't overlap with Antonio.
I reckon it was Alex Song.
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Briano
7:07 Fri Jan 7
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Antonio was signed for 7 mill after a decent goal scoring record at Forest. Everyone knew who he was.
The ‘you’re here to nick my place’ mentality exists at lower league clubs where players need a contract to pay the mortgage
Sheffield Weds, Reading, Colchester?
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chim chim cha boo
7:23 Fri Jan 7
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Tony Blair?
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Mex Martillo
8:48 Fri Jan 7
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By the description and Antonio coming in as an attacking midfield winger, it can only be Payet in midfield and Valencia and Sakho who were actually forwards. I'd go for Valencia, but both Payet and Sakho had personality disorders according to me.
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Eerie Descent
8:55 Fri Jan 7
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You reckon Payet saw Antonio train and was worried that he'd nick his spot?
That's some sort of parallel universe you've entered.
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Stubbo
9:09 Fri Jan 7
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He came in with a view to playing right midfield/wing...if it was us, someone like Amalfitano sounds likely (but did he ever really HAVE a place in the side with us?)
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Far Cough
9:20 Fri Jan 7
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Hahaha, I love Antonio but no way would Payet be worried about Michail, the time he was with us I reckon he was in the top five players in the world
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Alex G
9:39 Fri Jan 7
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Out of interest I looked up our team for the match before Antonio signed.... the three nil victory away at Anfield! Slightly surprised that in the fast paced world of football transfers that six and a bit years later five of our starting eleven that day are still at West Ham...
Randolph
Tomkins
Reid
Ogbonna
Cresswell
Kouyate (right of the midfield three according to the BBC match report)
Obiang
Noble
Lanzini (West Ham debut, playing right of the front three)
Sakho
Payet
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Tomsdad
9:47 Fri Jan 7
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Was it Steve Walford?
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the exile
9:52 Fri Jan 7
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Got to be Amlfitano.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:55 Fri Jan 7
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Alan CURBISHLEY
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Iron Duke
11:06 Fri Jan 7
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Tim Breacker
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tnb
11:45 Fri Jan 7
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Given Amalfitano left a month after Antonio signed it can’t be him.
Has to be Sakho looking at the clues - Moses was only with us for that season, Valencia left on loan at the start of the next season and never came back, Payet I can’t see feeling threatened by anyone, Lanzini is obviously still with us. Jarvis left either even before Antonio signed or not long after from memory.
I guess it could have been Carroll if Antonio described himself as coming in as an out and out striker, but that would have been pretty prescient given where he had played up until then. By that logic maybe he described himself as a right back and it was Sam Byram…
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