Nuno Out

[northbankfrank]

2,500 posts by the end of the season?

[Far Cough UKunt]

Who was the last manager who we pried away from another club? Pardew wasn't it?

[Come On You Irons]

In his press conference he talked about the importance of Paqueta being a good No.10 for us and yet in the past couple of games he's played him up top. 

No hope Nuno the numpty seems like yet another div manager who will refuse to drop the showboating, diving Brazilian despite him being awful for the last two seasons.

[Massive Attack]

In his press conference he talked about the importance of Paqueta being a good No.10 for us and yet in the past couple of games he's played him up top. 

[Russ of the BML]

The manager situation is all Sullivan's fault. When you have a policy of never paying compensation for a manager you are always picking from a pool of unemployed managers. This will always put you on the back foot because you are selecting from a pool of managers that are unemployed because they are not very good and have been sacked or nobody wants to employ them. Now, from time time, you can get lucky and if timing is right you can pull off a coup. But that hardly ever happens. 

After our Euro success and when things when stale with Moyes, that was the time to go and hit a club with an offer they can't refuse for a top manager. At the time perhaps Eddie Howe? I know we flirted with Amorim but Sulli refused to pay £8m compo for him. Amorim has had a tough time at Utd but looks like he may have turned the ship and I think we can all agree that the likelihood of us being in a better place right now if we had employed Amorim is extremely high. 

[El Scorchio]

"This has nothing to do with Sullivan if our managers are so inept and useless"
 

Who employs the managers? 

This x100. It's got everything to do with him. Everything has his stench all over it. he's chosen or approved all of them.

[northbankfrank]

"This has nothing to do with Sullivan if our managers are so inept and useless"
 

Who employs the managers? 

[BoleynGone]

Crack Head has no logic about his selections apart from his first game.
Kept it simple and even brought on Potts on the hour. We scored soon after and could have taken 3 points if he had then not had a spoonful keeping Fulkrug on until the 94th bleedin minute. He was fucked and this could have contributed to his body breaking down once again.
He was so negative against Arsenal that a defeat was inevitable.
I'm having a go as it seems Nuno has had 4 games and wasted them.
Potter did this too. This has nothing to do with Sullivan if our managers are so inept and useless. What do they watch whilst waiting to be remployed. Nuno knew he would be the leading candidate once he left Forest.THE CRACK HEAD was probably getting a fix whilst counting his millions.
 

[simons]

The team that ended the Leeds game, showed that is was capable of getting something out of that game. Wilson will get chances, and score, if he’s given the opportunity too, like against Forest. Any pressure Nuno might now feel, is of his own doing.

[Russ of the BML]

We all agree Russ. What perhaps should be understood though is that even though starting Potts , Magassa, Fernandes most games will guarantee improvement in central midfield, the appalling squad as a whole still may prevent the results we need being achieved against many teams.  That said, there will be a much better chance even if its getting a draw not a win.

The lack of a target man / striker and losing our best CB ( low bar ) will still limit what we fan achieve results wise and Nuno needs to come up with something a lot better than false 9 Paqueta.  On the subject of Paqueta, play him deeper or bench him from starting. 

I fully appreciate that picking your best side does not always get you results. But, as you rightly point it, what is does is always give you the best chance of a result. What Nuno has done in the last two games is so left field he has made himself look stupid and, as I said, he has become part of the problem. 

If Nuno picks the best team from the squad he has, which I agree is appalling, then he cannot be directly blamed for that as he has had no influence in the make up of the current squad. By going left field and picking players in wrong positions and playing out of form or not good enough players, he puts himself directly in the firing line. 

Agree on Paqueta - For me he is midfield or bench. Not left. Not striker. 

[El Scorchio]

In his first post match interview after the draw at Everton, this cսnt was banging on about "our industry".

Sums it up how he sees it (and likely most foreign managers). Big business and just a very well paid job for him. No affiliation or connection whatsoever to the club he happens to be currently employed by.

Rodgers would be a better fit for us, for sure.

That applies to the vast majority of players and managers whether English/British or otherwise. Unless a player or manager is 'West Ham' any affinity they claim to have is usually platitudes and good PR. Sometimes a player or manager will come to realise this is 'their club' but for every one that does there are dozens who never give it another thought or a mention, even if they claim it when signing or while they are here. It's just a job to all these people.

[Come On You Irons]

In his first post match interview after the draw at Everton, this cսnt was banging on about "our industry".

Sums it up how he sees it (and likely most foreign managers). Big business and just a very well paid job for him. No affiliation or connection whatsoever to the club he happens to be currently employed by.

Rodgers would be a better fit for us, for sure.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Crack head out, Brendan in. 

[El Scorchio]

I don't get the whole Irving thing... Don't forget before last season he was playing in the lofty heights of the AUSTRIAN second division. If he was a teenager then maybe you could understand it but as has been mentioned he's in his mid 20"s with not much regular first team experience behind him.

He would probably be fine at Scottish Prem level but I think even the Championship would prove too hectic for him.


 

Only at West Ham, when Mateus Fernandes and others are sat on the bench at the same time.

[Massive Attack]

He does look a bit like a crackhead. When was his last drug test? It would go some way to explaining his wacky tactics..

[twoleftfeet]

I'll take Rogers over fucking Nuno crack head anyday.
Didn't really want him Spurs reject,he had one lucky season that ended throwing away a certain CL place,his last ten games have been shit with us and Forest.



Crack head

 

[BoleynGone]

I'll take Rogers over fucking Nuno crack head anyday.
Didn't really want him Spurs reject,he had one lucky season that ended throwing away a certain CL place,his last ten games have been shit with us and Forest.


 

[Mad Ferret]

Brendan Rodgers now available.

[threesixty]

The biggest mystery is what happened to Fearon? 
Probably the best performance I saw in preseason and hasn’t been seen or heard of since..  baffling! 

[Dick Shaftsbury]

I don't get the whole Irving thing... Don't forget before last season he was playing in the lofty heights of the AUSTRIAN second division. If he was a teenager then maybe you could understand it but as has been mentioned he's in his mid 20"s with not much regular first team experience behind him.

He would probably be fine at Scottish Prem level but I think even the Championship would prove too hectic for him.


 

 

It was the most random signing in recent times.

[Chedylan 3]

Is this porro pillock still here?

fuck him off already 

[eusebiovic]

I don't get the whole Irving thing... Don't forget before last season he was playing in the lofty heights of the AUSTRIAN second division. If he was a teenager then maybe you could understand it but as has been mentioned he's in his mid 20"s with not much regular first team experience behind him.

He would probably be fine at Scottish Prem level but I think even the Championship would prove too hectic for him.

 

[Sir Alf]

Yeah Irvine is a bizarre one. The Brentford game ok he had to see what he could do by starting his first competitive match in the PL.  But firstly starting him alongside Souck as our defensive double pivot in a PL that is now faster and more intense tgan ever was suicidal and was proved within 15 mins of the fame starting at Leeds. 

Lots of people clutching at straws to rationalise it. What was in Nuno and his coaches minds aside from crack, fentyonol or crystal meth? 

Is it that by focusing so hard on set piece defending that was causing us to concede so many, he thought play as many tall players as possible? If so why not Magassa? 

Was it, as Carlton Cole suggested, he was trying to protect the younger players? 

Was the Soucek and Irvine pairing working so well im training routines and drills, if so what were these routines? Couldnt have involved pressing or running ? 

It will be added to one of many unsolved mysteries for future generations to ponder
 

[Massive Attack]

 

How many times do the fans have to say "We need energy and legs in midfield". We bought Fernandes, Magassa and have Potts. Yet Nuno has dropped them for, guess what, older players. Play two of them with Paqueta - Or, play all three and drop Paqueta. 



 

 

 

Thing is Andy Irving aint even old he's just shit at this level - he was 25 in May. To start him twice ahead of the other 3 who have all looked better than him by some distance gives off sabotage vibes. It made fuck all sense. Or are we all going to seriously believe he suddenly turned in to Andy Irvinho in a handful of Training sessions megging every cսnt in sight before tapping the ball in to Areolas net with his left arse cheek. I mean, stranger things have happened in Football but..

The same manager who also instantly launched an honest likeable Pro that's never caused any trouble in his career out the Squad the second he walked through the door. Anyone thought how that must look to his fellow Team mates and making a questionable 1st impression to everyone trying to endear himself to everyone..

What you playing at, Nuno?

[Sir Alf]

We all agree Russ. What perhaps should be understood though is that even though starting Potts , Magassa, Fernandes most games will guarantee improvement in central midfield, the appalling squad as a whole still may prevent the results we need being achieved against many teams.  That said, there will be a much better chance even if its getting a draw not a win.

The lack of a target man / striker and losing our best CB ( low bar ) will still limit what we fan achieve results wise and Nuno needs to come up with something a lot better than false 9 Paqueta.  On the subject of Paqueta, play him deeper or bench him from starting. 

[Russ of the BML]

Nuno should do all he can to not be part of the problem. Last couple of games his unusual line up's, odd tactics and questionable substitutions have seen him rightly criticised. But with the bigger picture playing out, Nuno needs to keep his head below the trench, stay clear and let the fans v board issue play out. 

How many times do the fans have to say "We need energy and legs in midfield". We bought Fernandes, Magassa and have Potts. Yet Nuno has dropped them for, guess what, older players. Play two of them with Paqueta - Or, play all three and drop Paqueta. 

And Paqueta being played as a striker with Wilson on the bench. Irving as a 10. Persisting with CB's that can't defend. 

FFS Nuno - Just pick a team that consists of a blend of energy and experience and play them all in their right positions. Stop the rot and get some results.