Nuno Out

[northbankfrank]

2,500 posts by the end of the season?

[southbankbornnbred]

The actual reason we're in the predicament is because we have an owner who keeps employing absolutely useless boring cunts who are unemployed because they are useless boring cunts who have failed elsewhere, instead of actually taking a risk and going for a young up and coming manager who may actually try to take us forward and play expansive football.

I say this lightly as generally we have been average the entire time I've been watching us, but the last two team selections amd tactics are the worst I've ever seen from ANY team in my entire life watching football.

Imagine watching that on monday and then thinking it was worth trying again.

 

Agree entirely. Shit trickles down. And it all comes from the arsehole at the very top: Sullivan.

Bad chairmen pick bad managers, who buy bad players, who play badly.

Said it before: we’re in a football death loop. It doesn’t change until Sullivan goes.

[Massive Attack]

Potter 100% failed spectacularly at Chelsea. Agreed that Nuno didn't fail at Forest though enjoying an excellent season last season before his ego got carried away at the start of this one..

[RootsRadical]

Grumps
How was Nuno a failure at Forest?
He gave them the best season they've had for over 3 decades. Ask their fans if they were bored.
He also did well at Wolves qualifying them for Europe.
Won the double in Saudi, and did no worse at Spurs than the other managers they employed around that time.

Loppy also had a good record, won the Europa League with Sevilla, and finished 4th in La Liga qualifying them for the CL for the first time in their history. Also managed the Spainish national team & Real Madrid, and won two under 21s Euros with the Spanish youth, so he must have had something about him.

Potter I never rated or wanted, but I wouldn't go so far as saying he was a failure before us either.

[claret on my shirt]

He just threw the players under the bus in that interview, maybe he needs to take some responsibility for two shocking starting XIs?

[Grumpster]

The actual reason we're in the predicament is because we have an owner who keeps employing absolutely useless boring cunts who are unemployed because they are useless boring cunts who have failed elsewhere, instead of actually taking a risk and going for a young up and coming manager who may actually try to take us forward and play expansive football.

I say this lightly as generally we have been average the entire time I've been watching us, but the last two team selections amd tactics are the worst I've ever seen from ANY team in my entire life watching football.

Imagine watching that on monday and then thinking it was worth trying again.
 

[Massive Attack]

The worst start I’ve ever seen by a West Ham
manager.

I know he’s not, but it genuinely looks like he’s trying to throw matches with his lineups.

Abysmal. Batshit. Call it what you like. He’s got little talent to choose from. But his lineups are obscene. Like he pulled them out of a hat.

Football

[RootsRadical]

Yes let's sack another manager and make it 4 managers in a year, this time after only 4 games, because that always works out so well.
Who next, Ange for a few games.

One of the main reasons we are in this predicament is not giving managers enough time but letting them sign players they wanted but the next manager won't.
 

[Massive Attack]

He’s second favourite for the next manager to be sacked 

Newcastle at Home next. He needs to get them bang at it as they are usually a quality side or this could get very ugly in the Stadium.

[zico]

Deja vu on the interview. Tomorrow, tomorrow. He says, he said that on Monday. No mention of him making the same mistakes twice!

[Mad Dog]

Making a mistake is 1 thing
making a brain dead mistake is another

Doing it twice in 4 fucking days is unforgivable.  I've lost faith in this cսnt after 4 games

[Maverick180180]

He’s second favourite for the next manager to be sacked 

[easthammer]

Kevin Nolan has taken Northampton to the giddy heights of 11th Division One. He could not do worse and would be cheap enough 

[ragingbull]

Monday morning there should be a board meeting and he should be asked to explain what the merry fuck is up with that team selection.

[Come On You Irons]

It doesn't even matter who the manager is anymore.

The fuck it doesn't. A competent manager would do the obvious that all the fans can see. Play our strongest starting eleven, play the players in their best positions and play a formation to the strength of the team.

Unfortunately we have now hired three idiot out of work managers in a row appointed who all make bizarre team selections and play nonsensical tactics.

The appointments are all down to one man and his cheapskate, incompetent approach to running a football club. David fucking Sullivan.

[Fauxstralian]

Pick the right team and we might get somewhere you beardy Portuguese clown
Irving & Soucek …. JESUS WEPT 

[cholo]

It doesn't even matter who the manager is anymore.

[muskie]

Welcome to West Ham United, leave your common sense at the door.

 

[Mad Ferret]

He’s a useless cսnt.

[goose]

Can absolutely fuck off.

Result is completely on him and his brainless team selection. Funny how once the players everyone said should start get on the pitch we look 100 times more capable.

two fucking games he’s given up.

[Rossal]

 

Disagree. Kevin DeBruyne had one of the worst completion rates, regularly, in the Premier league. Playing in a pass and move team those risky passes he played that came off were league winning. Paqueta is never going to stop taking risks or trying the difficult pass. Nor should he. He isn't as good as DeBruyne, obviously, but he is a fucking good player who is clearly very frustrated at West Ham. More to the point his type of football is what West Ham should be aspiring too, not lowering our expectations to the likes of JWP, fantastic pass completion rate; Soucek, can he actually pass? Rodrigues, remind me what he does, Irving, etc.
I give Paqueta great credit for sticking around, probably in the full knowledge that Sullivan wanted to flog him; that playing under Potter (as it was then) would be challenging; and some of us would be daft enough to get on his back.
If Paqueta was the only thing wrong with this club then we would not be in particularly bad place.

Exactly this. KDB is a great shout. I'm also not trying to say Paqueta is near as good, but yes his pass completion is pretty low- even in a team like Man City- because he's trying to make things happen and get on the attack. That's how Paqueta will have been taught to play from being a kid and if you don't want that then why buy the bloke? Coach it out of him and you end up with another JWP too scared to play it forward for fear of losing it. We play with too much fear. We played with fear under Moyes and under Potter. We were too cavalier under Lop.

Big difference for KDB is that he was also playing with players multitudes better than ours, in a settled side who know what he's thinking and he knows what they are thinking. Even then it doesn't come off a lot of the time as the percentage will attest to. The other difference is that they have far better players in MF and defence as well, so losing the ball isn't essentially a death sentence for the team as they can press or harass and win it back usually high up the pitch and not immediately get ripped through resulting in a really good chance for the opposition, like it is for us. It looks a lot worse for us than other teams if we lose possession because we're so shit and disjointed off the ball.

Nuno has to give Paqueta the best platform to influence a game as if anyone is going to make anything happen with the ball and release the forwards, it's him. For that we need a settled midfield and a settled striker, and the reassurance for him that if it goes astray we aren't instantly fucked or under tremendous pressure.

"Nuno has to give Paqueta the best platform to influence a game as if anyone is going to make anything happen with the ball and release the forwards, it's him."


Is it though?  What are you basing this on?  As he hasn't done it for nearly two seasons. 

Mentioning him with KDB for any stat is completely irrelevant.  KDB gets assists and influences games positively going forward. Paqueta doesn't anywhere near enough for his ability.

 

 

yep. Same old.

Chip through to keeper - tick
yellow for dissent — tick
hardly any chances created - tick
0 shots on target - tick

[THUNDERCLINT]

This cսnt been sacked yet?

[southbankbornnbred]

The worst start I’ve ever seen by a West Ham
manager.

I know he’s not, but it genuinely looks like he’s trying to throw matches with his lineups.

Abysmal. Batshit. Call it what you like. He’s got little talent to choose from. But his lineups are obscene. Like he pulled them out of a hat.

[El Scorchio]

I'd honestly sack him after Burnley if he keeps doing this. Surely there's simply going to be no choice but to.

[eusebiovic]

I know our squad is largely shite but I can't believe what I'm seeing with the way he's set them up the last 2 games.

How can he possibly think that has a hope in hell of working?

Mental 

[fraser]

I don't get it we looked so much better at Everton and then Arsenal was just poor but they're a very good team one of the best in Europe.. So wipe our mouths and get on with it.. But the two team selections since have surrendered two games that we might have won with the right line ups... It's fucking baffling...