I'm guessing because you can borrow against its value which until now since I've been alive has always been increasing in value above inflation. In my humble opinion. Ready to be corrected if someone knows better.     Yeah I would have said that as well. Just that there are so many clubs in poor / ...

I believe the club have a 99yr lease at a few million a year or something silly. Other clubs have had to take huge loans with massive interest rates that they have to pay to build a new ground.  I don’t understand how West Ham can have any money problems whatsoever? Why would we better off owning th...

Isn’t it all Edu related? Edu is going to want flair players going forward. Nuno probably doesnt want the players he has in mind as it doesn't suit how he wants to play. Edu is now directly managing Nuno instead of him being able to chat to the owner so he’s pissed off. He’d rather get a pay off tha...

I’ll accept defeat on this one lads!
It seems everyone thinks that academy players playing more 1st team football doesn’t make them better players. That sounds wild to me. But if that’s what you all think. Cool. I’ll accept it. 

glad to have entertained you all!
 

Thought I’d ask chatGPT! “Would Declan rice have made it as a world class player if he didn’t play as much 1st team football as he did in the early part of his career?”That’s a really interesting “what if” because Rice’s career path is quite unusual compared to many English players. A few points to ...

Okay. This has descended into a bit of a farce! Originally I was criticising our youth policy over the last decade or so that has produced hardly any 1st team players compared to other PL clubs. My point was it was a catch 22. That if we don’t plan for and give our academy players minutes in 1st tea...

"If Rice had a seasoned international in the CDM position in front of him he wouldn’t have got anywhere near the minutes he got and he wouldn’t be a great player by now. And he’d have ended up at some yo yo club or in the championship" You're genuinely saying that the £100mil, soon to be ...

Bilic was the one who introduced Rice to the team and played him at DM a handful of times. Moyes played him as a CB, but only when he used a back 3. Pellegrini used him as a DM but only made him a starter a few games in to the season when Wheelchair Wilshere got injured. The idea that he would have...

Cole Palmer had played less than 500 minutes of football by the time he was 21. He must be shit now, eh? All those years of development lost.     You would hardly know who the guy was if he didn’t make the jump to Chelsea to get more …. MINUTES IN 1st team PL football! ffs.. you make my point for m...

Some people live in a football fantasy land. Like it’s some complete meritocracy with no luck or good fortune involved. Carry on thinking that if it makes you feel better.  the reality is Rice did not have his position impeded by a more experienced pro and he benefitted from that.  we even had souce...

Sorry. There is no way Rice only got game time because of lack of more senior players. That’s a wild claim. He had already stood out playing in a back three under Moyes, who notoriously never gives youth a chance unless they are right at the top tier, i.e, Rooney. Pellegrini, to his credit, spotted...

In fact who was the CDM around when Rice broke through? We had Kouyate and Obiang about that time. And I think the season before we had Alex Song from Barca.  I think Kouyate and Obiang moved on pretty soon. We were covered for CB’s which was Rice’s first position I think, but the whole CDM thing wa...

Yup it's a sad truth. If we were churning out players of PL quality from the academy, then they'd be playing PL football for us or someone else. Absolutely Potts not getting time isn't helping him- especially before the two new lads joined and he wasn't looking bad compared to the statues sharing t...

  That's all you needed to say. We've had 1 player from the Academy who was genuinely good enough to be a proper Premier League player over the last 15 years, Declan Rice. No one, not even Moyes, was worried about putting him in the team. I like Potts, and would like to see him start ahead of Mouse...

  As much as I detest Sullivan he hasn't "trousered" any money! Check the financial accounts if he's taken a £17m directors salary then you are correct. Otherwise can we stop pretending Sullivan is stealing from the club coffers because it fits our narrative. What we should be holding aga...

Igor was the hunchback in Young Frankenstein. A perfect West Ham signing. Seriously tho, worse than I thought. Sullivan trouserinv the Aguerd money and no one coming in is what will happen.  He trousered £17 million from Kudus deal and now Aguerd fee. Does it every window. Spends some but is always...

Embarrassed myself? How exactly? By spitting FACTS. Forest dominated for large spells. We were awful in the first half. 0-0 would have been a fair result but we won with a smash and grab in the last 6 minutes. Take those claret and blue spectacles off.     smash and grab? Pretty even on the ball 1s...

The one positive from Potters time here strangely is that if there’s one thing he has got the team practising is passing it around between the defenders and keeper. I think we are quite used to this now so there seems to be less panic when trying to hold a lead. Previously I don’t think anyone could...

I’m not entirely surprised by the result so much. As I’ve always felt we have the players to be competitive (even without the new additions). I’m more surprised that Potter went to a back 4 after about 8 months and a preseason insisting he knew what he was doing.  The last “great game” I remember us...

I suppose the difference between fullkrug and Wilson is that Wilson can make his own goals. He’s not reliant on perfect service. Fullkrug needs to move around more. I’d be interested to see both of them play together though. 
 

Great game lads! can’t fault anyone considering the pressure they’re all under as well! credit where credits due, Potter finally made the obvious choice in formation that gives us balance and makes our players shine. also did it convincingly away from home which is really important. we moan because ...

BIG FUCKING GAME!!!!! 

Did Paq just “throw his phone away” lol.. what’s he alluding to??
nice pen!

 

We are not running out when we clear the ball. Sitting too deep again. We will pay for that if we’re not careful. I see even Wilson telling everyone to push up…
 

nychammer wrote: ↑31 Aug 2025, 15:06

threesixty wrote: ↑31 Aug 2025, 15:04 Why is a 40m CB watching the ball rather than the no.9 he is marking? Ffs… 

got lucky there.