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Might be lonely in here.

Anyhow looks like Grant is to stay on as manager for now.
He continues to have the touch when it comes to cup matches, with the great 2 - 1 win over Birmingham even though the hammers were down to 10 men.

Saturdays league Match against Arsenal at home is quite crucial as a win will see the hammers get away from the bottom again, fingers crossed and a few prayers for that match.
 
He's unbelievable. Three cup finals in three years. It boggles the mind.
 
i actually had a soft spot for you guys, and then i heard your song ' forever blowing bubbles'.

seriously though, I have always liked west ham. think Di Cannio was the reason.
 
It would be sad if West Ham were to be relegated because we know once you are down there, it is difficult to come back again since you'll lose your key players.
 
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I hope you go down this season,I'm a closet sheffield utd fan :D Thats the only reason I dislike west ham,nothing personal to any west ham fans.
Just speaking my mind.
 
argh 0 - 3 to arsenal

Relegation looking closer and closer. Another heavy defeat, this time at home, eish, 0 -3 to Arsenal.
Doesn't really help when before the match SKY are already reporting a manager change. Thats fine, if Grant is going then send him away, but week after week the same story, can't be helping the managers or the team.
 
So, I hope West Ham get relegated. Then they'd be a proper EPL feeder club.
 
Maybe less lonely than you think. There are a couple of crazy people who support West Ham.

Should stay up (I hope) and with Grant as manager. Sullivan, Gold and Brady are royally stuffing things up. Either fire the guy ... or come out and support him (with some money for transfers)
 
I think Grant needs to somehow get more out of his players. I'd be very disappointed if I was a Hammers fan after this weekend. It's like most of the players looked void of any enthusiasm from the kick off. Wayne Bridge had a really crap game. I remember one of the commentators saying something about his experience or something - what experience does he have warming Chelsea and then Man City's bench for the last few seasons?

West Ham produced players like Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Glen Johnson and Jermain Defoe in recent times. They should look to their youth academy more instead of signing semi-retired players.
 
MartyMarts said:
I think Grant needs to somehow get more out of his players. I'd be very disappointed if I was a Hammers fan after this weekend. It's like most of the players looked void of any enthusiasm from the kick off. Wayne Bridge had a really crap game. I remember one of the commentators saying something about his experience or something - what experience does he have warming Chelsea and then Man City's bench for the last few seasons?

West Ham produced players like Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Glen Johnson and Jermain Defoe in recent times. They should look to their youth academy more instead of signing semi-retired players.
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Too right, if they were in the Championship - they'd be the perfect feeder club I tell you. :D
 
smokey said:
Too right, if they were in the Championship - they'd be the perfect feeder club I tell you. :D
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lol. Clearly you have zero love for the Hammers :D
I think they've already proved themselves a worthy feeder club as an EPL team ;)
 
MartyMarts said:
lol. Clearly you have zero love for the Hammers :D
I think they've already proved themselves a worthy feeder club as an EPL team ;)
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Earlier yeah... sure. Recently they've gotten something of a nosebleed for aiming too high and keep buying players instead of producing them. All I think is that a spell in the Championship will reignite the passion for bringing in youth to West Ham.

As for me hating them, it's a natural occurrence. My best mate introduced me to Chelsea in the Gullit days and another friend of his was a West Ham supporter. Since that first hot-seat game of Champ Manager 96 we haven't been able to sit in the same room. It's just one of those things. So... yeah... I hate 'em.
 
wallsend said:
i actually had a soft spot for you guys, and then i heard your song ' forever blowing bubbles'.

seriously though, I have always liked west ham. think Di Cannio was the reason.
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You sure it wasn't John Hartson
 
Former West Ham captain Julian Dicks has accused David Gold and David Sullivan of turning the club into a 'laughing stock' over their failure to end the growing speculation over Avram Grant's future.
Grant's position looked increasingly precarious after Saturday's 3-0 defeat to Arsenal was preceded by intense speculation that Martin O'Neill had been sounded out about the possibility of replacing the Israeli.
Grant insisted that he was still in charge following the loss, which kept West Ham rooted to the foot of the league, but fans groups have strongly condemned the owners for their failure to either back or sack the former Chelsea boss. The club have been silent on rumours that Grant was being lined up for the sack.

Time's up? West Ham owners David Gold (left) and David Sullivan are said to be on the verge of handing manager Avram Grant (right) the sack
Now Dicks, who became a West Ham legend after playing over 250 times in his 10 years at the club, has called on the pair to end the rumours about Grant's future. He said: 'All I know is what I have seen in the newspapers and on the television - I heard one minute that Avram was leaving, then the next I hear it's Martin O'Neill who's coming in, and then he isn't. We're becoming a laughing stock really.
'They (Gold and Sullivan) have the best interests of the club and the supporters at heart, I'm sure, but they need to come out and end all this speculation and say "we support you" or they should sack him.

Bottom of the league: West Ham were thrashed at home to Arsenal last weekend
'They need to get this sorted out so everyone can start concentrating on the football again.'
Despite leading the Hammers to the Carling Cup semi-final, Grant has so far only been able to register four league wins and his team are two points adrift of safety having played at least one more game than their relegation rivals.
Should the Londoners replace Grant with O'Neill, Dicks thinks the former Leicester boss would be a good appointment. 'I would like to think Martin O'Neill would do a good job for the club,' said Dicks, who now manages non-league Grays Athletic. 'He is an experienced and very passionate manager and has had a lot of success at all the clubs he has been at.

Upton Park hero: Julian Dicks
'There are a lot of managers out there that are out of work and apart from Roy Hodgson maybe, he is the highest-profile one of the lot.'
With West Ham around £90million in debt, Dicks knows that money is tight at the club but insists that any new manager must be given transfer funds to improve the current squad.
'They need to bring in four players quickly,' said the 42-year-old. 'They need a central midfielder to play alongside Scott Parker and they need a striker that is going to score goals and work hard for the team.
'They could do with a right-back and a centre-half too.'
Gold and Sullivan admitted that the club would face 'Armageddon' if they were relegated when they took over last January.
The former Birmingham owners have cut the West Ham's debt and reduced costs but Dicks admits being relegated could have a devastating effect on the club.
'Nobody wants to get relegated from any division, let alone the Premier League. It would be unthinkable if West Ham got relegated,' Dicks added. 'It would be financially catastrophic for the club if they went down. There are debts at the club and the players' wages are huge.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...wners-demands-Julian-Dicks.html#ixzz1BMo8PdEJ
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shocking
 
Deceit, back-stabbing, chaos and attempted insurrection.

Forget EastEnders, you could not devise a more crazy soap opera than the one Avram Grant has endured for the past few months.

With Grant left dangling, seemingly hanging on only because the West Ham board cannot find his replacement to let them cut him loose, any claims about the moral authority of the Upton Park owners have disappeared.

The events of the past few days have served to crystallise the feeling West Ham is a club riven by internal feuds and not fit for purpose.

Dressing-room sources cannot hide their disbelief at what the players, staff and of course their manager have been put through, at a time when the club publicly talks about pulling together to escape the relegation zone.

But with Martin O’Neill turning down the chance to inherit what increasingly resembles a madhouse, and Grant looking likely to stay in charge for the foreseeable future, the scale of the underhand dealing that has turned the Hammers into what former local hero Julian Dicks called a “laughing stock” can be revealed.

The worst and most extraordinary act of all saw Karren Brady texting a number of internationals in Grant’s squad to effectively ask them to rise up against the Israeli.

One dressing-room source revealed: “When the texts came in, asking some of us what we thought of Avram and whether we felt he should go, none of us could believe what was happening.

“As far as I know, no one replied to the texts, which seemed to be asking us to go to the owners and ask for a change of manager.

“But the players who received them showed the texts to the coaching staff and pretty soon everybody knew what had gone on. It simply wasn’t right.”

That attempt to undermine Grant, at a point when his fortunes were at their lowest ebb, was just the beginning of what resembled a destabilisation campaign.

Yet the problems were running even deeper, as cost-cutting measures began to eat away at morale at the club.

One well-liked member of staff at the Chadwell Heath training ground, paid just £200 a week as a general helper, was told he would be fired because his wages could no longer be afforded. It was only after the board were told the players were furious at such callous treatment was the decision overturned.

Secretarial staff have had hours cut to save money. In one case that saved £300 a month at a club which has an annual wage bill of tens of millions of pounds.

It is understood joint owners David Sullivan and David Gold and the board were shaken when all their preferred candidates – among them Sam Allardyce and Martin Jol – warned that up to six signings before the end of January would be the minimum requirement to keep the club in the Premier League. That would need money that is not there.

Grant – whose record of four wins and one defeat in the seven games before the home match with Arsenal on Saturday was better than 17 of the other top-flight bosses and beaten only by Sir Alex Ferguson – was still trying to line up transfers despite Brady pulling the plug on a deal for Steve Sidwell.

Ten days ago, Wayne Bridge was told West Ham could not afford to pay even £60,000 of his £90,000-a-week salary.

Remarkably, after Tottenham’s ramped-up efforts to land the Olympic Stadium sparked claims the Hammers were unable to come up with the cash needed to make the project viable, Bridge was signed until the end of the season – on £90,000 a week.

As speculation over Grant’s future grew last week, as “crisis” board meetings came and went and whispers emanated from within that he was to be sacked and replaced by O’Neill irrespective of the result against Arsenal, the players’ anger boiled over.

They awoke to the “news” of Grant’s imminent departure and spent much of the day brooding about what was happening. Messages were left on the answer-phones of Brady, Sullivan and Gold without reply, while the players rang each other for information.

“Nobody had a clue what was going on and the fact we were all left out of the loop made it worse,” said another dressing-room insider.

“It was still going on when we were arriving before the game and it was no way for any of us to prepare for playing Arsenal.

“After the game a few of us told Avram he shouldn’t go and face the press and that he should let the board take the flak but he said it was his job and went and spoke.”

No wonder former Hammers left-back Dicks claimed: “We’re becoming a laughing stock. They need to come out and end all this speculation and say, ‘We support you’ or they should sack Grant.

“They must get this sorted out so everyone can start concentrating on football again. They need to bring in four players quickly, a central midfielder to play alongside Scott Parker, a striker who is going to score goals, a right-back and a centre-half too.

“It would be financially catastrophic if West Ham were relegated.”

A catastrophe that Grant, despite everything, is left to try to avert.

A West Ham spokesman declined to comment on the record although the club insisted no such texts were sent from board members to players, that the number of analysts and coaching staff at Chadwell Heath had increased and that the training-ground worker was due to retire on age grounds, but a “compromise” was reached which enabled him to stay on.
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MartyMarts said:
lol. Are you a closet Millwall fan by any chance :p
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Typical. First I was a closet Arsenal supporter, then a closet United supporter and now a closet Millwall(!) supporter. I wonder whose closet supporter I'll be next...
 
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