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Had enough of this arogrant no mark now.  

11 games, 27% win ratio and 0.66 goals per game.

Either the break clause is true or this flake quits otherwise were proper fucked.

I played football with Paul P. before he went pro. Nice lad and a really good goalkeeper!

I wanted Potter as I thought he was level headed and offered decent hope as a longish term solution. In reality we have been no better off than we would have been with Lop. In some ways I warmed to Lop more and wanted him to do well.

All in all, we are under-achieving shockingly with some significant players not seeming to give more than 80% of their potential. I'd like to blame the players but we have changed a lot of them over the last few years with little change in effort and therefore in league achievements. Let's just get to the end of this miserable season and see how the next one goes before giving up hope on Potter. There has been the occasional glimmer of hope (e.g. Liverpool away).

Home.....?
It's Sullivan's fucking goldmine, and our shitpit

southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 13:43 The Fullkrug interview is the first time this season that anybody has given an honest assessment of anything at West Ham.
 

Not sure why we even sacked Lopetegui. Sullivan clearly wasn't massively impressed by Potter or else he wouldn't have tried to give him just a short term contract, so why not just wait until the summer to bring in a new manager, when we might have had more choices open to us? It wasn't like we were in danger of relegation. Lopetegui got sacked after drubbings by Liverpool and Man City but we'd got 8 points and were unbeaten in the previous 4 games, so hardly in relegation form. 

Or they could have paid for Potter and sacked him in December with less points than Lop, having seem what's happened since January that seems more likely to me. 

We could have got Potter at the end of last season, and allowed him to build his own team. But that would have meant paying compensation to Chelsea, so as usual we took the cheap option and went for Lopetegui who was out of contract. There were other options, but again we would have had to pay compensation.

When they sacked Lop, the only realistic options were out of contract managers. For such an important role, they love taking the cheap option. Ironically, it ends up costing more in the long run because they end up with a load of overpaid and overpriced players the new manager doesn’t want.

The club is rotten at its core and until that malignant maggot fucks off any success will be by luck 

The problem at this club is not who the manager is or isn't, it's the fucking Nick Nack cսnt with the Russian hat.

Gank wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 16:56

Texas Iron" wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 16:19 How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

Potter's best mate is Paul Peschesolido so his wife is good friends with Karren Brady. Probably had a cursory quick chat with Sullivan about contract length rather than a formal interview, having effectively been gifted the role already.

They were all at Birmingham at the same time 92/93. The suprising thing is how long it took him (potter) to end up west ham. they all know each other.

Texas Iron" wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 16:19 How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

How on earth did Potter convince Sullivan and Brady that he would be a success as West Ham manager…???

nychammer wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 14:01

We did win at Arsenal and we had 60% possession at Anfield, you would NEVER have had that under Moyes...

I think he is trying to get us to press more than under Moyes and it is working in patches but not at all consistently. 

goose wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 11:19 I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

The Fullkrug interview is the first time this season that anybody has given an honest assessment of anything at West Ham.

And no doubt he’ll get told to stay schtum in future.

I’ve stopped listening to Potter’s interviews. He’s just full of piss and hot air. Talks a lot without ever saying anything meaningful. Like a mid-level manager in a council planning department.

I am with Alfs. I do genuinely believe that Potter deserves a well backed transfer window and a full pre-season to set up for next season. But, frankly, I am clinging onto that view by my fingernails. 

Once again, Potter has a chance to show some balls, and once again just comes across as a loser. His attitude and approach are woefully off the required level.... But, he has inherited a squad with so many holes and weaknesses that is so unbalanced, for me, he has a get out. 

As Adsiron very eloquently put below - This is Sullivan's mess. It was Sullivan's choice to hire Lope (instead of Amorim) to clean up the mess left by Moyes. And it was Sullivan's choice to hire Potter to clean up the mess of Lope. It's just that, right now, like Lope before him, Potter isn't making a very good job of cleaning up the mess made by the previous manager. 

So Sullivan needs to back Potter and give him the funds to bring his players in to help clear up the mess and get us back being competitive. Come the summer, if he gets the players he wants and a good pre-season and then in October we are still floundering, then Sullivan needs to being in his next cleaner. 

 

Ladysmith wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 11:27

goose wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 11:19 I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

So I was right all along that we should have stuck with Moyes.

As for twoleftfeet, he seems to have a massive hard on on this ludicrous idea that I am a Spurs fan. The bloke is a cսnt!

goose wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 11:19 I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

I’ve not seen one of our games under Potter and thought ‘I can see where he’s going with this team’.

Which gives me zero confidence that he’ll change this mess.

twoleftfeet wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 09:49

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 09:40

CrowleyHammer wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 08:52 If he shits himself this much when 1 - 0 up against the bottom team in the league when there is no pressure at all, I dread to think what's going to happen next season when he has to get points on the board to keep us up.

The signs have been there. The disgrace of the last half hour against 10 men at Arsenal. We got North of our 18 yard line 4 or 5 times. Crossed the half way line about once and had about 15 touches of the ball. Total coward.

He needs to go.

We beat Arsenal you fucking spurs mong cսnt.

It's odd that the likes of feet and some others saying we should back him and give him time, yet they were very vocal very early about wanting Lop out, yet this bloke is doing worse.. 

Feet demanded he was sacked now anybody doing the same is a spurs cսnt, he's definitely not all there. 

Spurs fans are massive cunts but feet definitely is a bigger one 
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Twoleftfeet - without any fishing emojis or accusations of being a spurs fan, I’d like to hear your opinion of Sullivan’s appointment of Lopetegui? What’s your take on it?

Who decided that Potter was an improvement on Lopetegui?
Who decided that Lopetegui was an improvement over Steidten's choice of Amorim?
Who decided to let Steidten go after blaming him for 2 poor signings (Guilherem & Fullkrug) who are now regularly starting to feature well?
Who appointed Moyes as an upgrade on Pellegrini after rejecting him first time around?
Who appointed PL Champion Pellegrini and managed to turn him into a 2nd season failure so sacked him?
Who appointed Moyes for a 6 month save our season then decided he wasn't good enough so let him go?
Who appointed Bilic for a great season only to sack him 2nd season after letting our star player go?
Who made fans suffer 4 seasons of Sam Allardyce after promising a world class team in a world class stadium?   
who appointed Avram Grant in preference to Zola who struggled his first season of management quite well without any money to spend?

You'd certainly want to sack the serial loser for such incompetence wouldn't you? Oh yes that would be David Sullivan...

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 09:25 Who was available in January?
We know what we need but it’s getting the right ones
More likely in the summer, no?


 

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 09:40

CrowleyHammer wrote: ↑20 Apr 2025, 08:52 If he shits himself this much when 1 - 0 up against the bottom team in the league when there is no pressure at all, I dread to think what's going to happen next season when he has to get points on the board to keep us up.

The signs have been there. The disgrace of the last half hour against 10 men at Arsenal. We got North of our 18 yard line 4 or 5 times. Crossed the half way line about once and had about 15 touches of the ball. Total coward.

He needs to go.