Your Clubs Expectations/Prediction...

Key player: Berbatov again

Youngster to have an impact: Taarabt, exceptionally talented player, has good passing skills, can dribble and has awareness of a experienced player, he will have a impact this season, very exciting prospect...though Boetang does come close...

Best Transfer: Koubol, due to King's constant injury problems and with Rocha and Gardner as back up, not to mention if we want to be sucessful, we will end up playing over 50 games, he will be our best signing. From what I've seen, he hasn't all the quality to be a quality Centre back and his a natural leader, with King's absense, thats vital...

Worst Transfer: Really don't think we've made any bad signings at all...

Top Goalscorer: Bent, with the servive he will get, I think he will be our top goal scorer, but the good thing is, it could be any of our 4 strikers...

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Murphy, Mido and Ghaly and maybe Gardner...

Weakness in your team: Still think that our left side of our midfield might well be our Achilles Heel. Malbranque is a Very good player and we will definetly keep him, but we still don't have the natural width, because he isn't the sort of player that bombs down the flank and puts the loads of crosses in, he cuts back too much...so we are still in need of a left winger to be complete or even a creative left-sided e.g Quresma...(one can only dream)......Some might say we need a better attacking midfieler in the centre, but I have every faith that Jenas will step up and one of the youngsters to have a impact...

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Narrowly missing out on 4th place but winning the F.a Cup....

Heart Says: Getting 4th place, with Arsenal narrowly missing out and we winning the UEFA Cup....

Taarabat impressed me last season. Shame he didnt decide to join us.

Key player: Van Persie, will score the goals that we need.

Youngster to have an impact: Abou Diaby/ Denilson. Both have impressed every time they play and if Gilberto gets injured, one of these two will have to step up and delvier which i think they will. Diaby has fantastic ball control and can dribble like a winger, he just needs to concentrate at actually affecting the game. Same with denilson apart from it is his passing which is fantastic.

Best Transfer: Not much to choose from but Eduardo has looked good in pre season and hopefully will be able to quickly adapt to the prem and score above 10 league goals.

Worst Transfer: The lack of a goalscoring winger, amazing as Hleb is.

Top Goalscorer: Van Persie.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Got rid of Ljungberg, so none really.

Weakness in your team: Becoming too narrow, even for our style of player, thus getting congested and not creating enough chances against teams who park the bus in front of goal. Also, the obvious, failing to finish chances.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Fourth place and at least quartersin champions league.

Heart says: Thrid or second and a win in a cup competition.

Key player: Barry. Captain, leads by example

Youngster to have an impact: Craig Gardner. Great prospect for midfield. excellent shot on him. also very versatile and seems to have fantastic attitude

Best Transfer: Reo-coker. Overpriced, but it's between him and harewood and he's a definite improvement on McCann. think he'll be looking to prove a point after a poor season last time and he'll be more of a vocal presence in what's generally quite a quiet squad from what i know.

Worst Transfer: we've only made 2 so it has to be harewood, i guess...but i think he's a useful player to have on board. won't be an automatic starter but he can come on and do a job when needed. also may feel he has a point to prove.

Top Goalscorer: Moore. i think this could be his breakthrough season. if he stays injury free and gets a decent run in the team, i could see 10+ prem goals.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: we have a 19 man squad at the minute, all the fringe players have been sold already (angel, sutton, ridgewell, hughes, mccann, djembadjemba, davis, samuel, hendrie). okay, could maybe lose one of taylor or sorensen if we got a new gk

Weakness in your team: at the minute - squad depth! only have 5 proper defenders (including a youngster whose barely been in the 1st team - o'halloran - and a longterm injury doubt in laursen), and no natural right back. other than that, possibly lack a goalscorer - but i think moore and/or gabby could reach a good tally this season. also need petrov to step up and provide more creativity from centre mid, hopefully with reo-coker as the box-to-box, battling player, he'll have more freedom to do so.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 8th-10th, challenging for uefa places

Heart Says: top 6

Key player: Gerrard again

Best Transfer: Torres. Improves the quality of the strikeforce which was our worst area last year.

Worst Transfer: Either Benayoun (how often will he play?) or Babel (would have preferred a true winger). But neither are bad signings I think.

Top Goalscorer: Torres.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: We cleared out most of them over the summer. Hyypia is OK for another season but needs to go then. Finnan needs to prove himself with more assists and goals this season.

Weakness in your team: Goalscoring (unless Torres plays a blinder) and wide players

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Tussling for 3rd/4th with Arsenal and QF/SF of the CL

Heart Says: Treble.

Roger Hunt wrote:Key player: Gerrard again

Best Transfer: Torres. Improves the quality of the strikeforce which was our worst area last year.

Worst Transfer: Either Benayoun (how often will he play?) or Babel (would have preferred a true winger). But neither are bad signings I think.

Top Goalscorer: Torres.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: We cleared out most of them over the summer. Hyypia is OK for another season but needs to go then. Finnan needs to prove himself with more assists and goals this season.

Weakness in your team: Goalscoring (unless Torres plays a blinder) and wide players

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Tussling for 3rd/4th with Arsenal and QF/SF of the CL

Heart Says: Treble.

I would say that Torres is our most important player, we all know what Carra and Gerrard etc bring to the team, but he holds a huge weight on his shoulders, if he bangs them in, we potentially are title contenders if he doesn't then we linger around 3rd / 4th, this is why i believe he is our most key player for THIS season.

pretty much agree with that Roger, except my head says 3rd and my heart says league winners

Key player: Dunne - some things dont change no matter how much is spent.

Youngster to make an impact: Take your pick from Ireland, Johnson, Onuoha, Richards, Logan or Sturridge, it could be anyone of them. Logan has been exciting in Pre season and has impressed Sven, as has Johnson and Ireland.

Best Transfer: Really hard cos i think Bianchi, Bojinov, Petrov or Elano all have the potential to do very well. Although i think Geovanni could be a gem.

Worst Transfer: Its just a guess but will go for Garrido.

Top Goalscorer: Bianchi

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Lots but i know Sven will get rid of the likes of Mills, Dickov, Miller etc.

Weakness in your team: Its going to take a while to get our system sorted and the players gelled together.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Top 10

Heart Says: UEFA Cup spot

Key player: Essien.

Youngster to have an impact: Scott Sinclair (well he is the only youngster in a position to have an impact for us). Mikel too I guess, his 1st proper full season. Diarra will leave I think and the other players who might play for us this season aren't "youngsters".

Best Transfer: Malouda - he'll get us a fair few goals and assists with Robben gone.

Worst Transfer: Ben Haim may well end up being a new Boula, but I don't want to slag him off before he begins!

Top Goalscorer: Drogs again I should think, even with ACoN.

Player that are not g.ood enough and still needs to be sold: Paulo Ferreira

Weakness in your team: Right-back is the problem position. I sometimes think we lack creativity when a team is defending deep - which is why Robben leaving is a bad thing as he could unlock defences with his pace & dribbling. We also lack a real AM playmaker which is a problem in the CL - the "effectiveness" of Ballack/Lamps over a season is unquestionable, but I'm not convinced by their utility in the CL KO rounds.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 1st PL, FA Cup win, CL semi

Heart Says: Quad

Key player: Viafara

Youngster to have an impact: Drew Surman, fantastic young player with two good feet and a first touch to die for - could be this seasons Walcott/Bale

Best Transfer: Getting Adam Hammill on loan from Liverpool could be promising

Worst Transfer: Alan Bennett, a reserve that was signed by Reading in january and has yet to make a competitive appearance for them was the player we bring in to fill our defensive gap - terrific.

Top Goalscorer: Kenwyne Jones or Saganowski

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: We really need all the players we can get

Weakness in your team: We have f@ck all defence

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 9th

Heart Says: Promotion by hook or by crook

Key player: This is a tricky one because its unclear who will start regularly for us and what our favored formation will be. I think Martins is a huge asset for us, and whether as a second striker or on one of the wings in a 4-3-3, he would be one of the first names on my team sheet. Hes got fantastic pace, good skill and he is a clinical finisher - last season he played without partners or service, with his back to goal a lot, and he still did very well and scored goals, and Id love to see him star in a team that passed the ball a bit more, in a position that suited him. I think he could be one of the best performers in the whole league even. But its not clear he will be a starter. Therefore to hedge my bets Ill go for Geremi, who, its suggested, will captain us next year. He seems likely to play in midfield and, especially if we go for a three in the middle, he may be largely responsible for making the team gel, for providing creativity from the middle and spreading play out wide. And hes capable of doing that. Hes looked very good in pre season, passes the ball wonderfully, leads by example, and hes strong and combative as well.

Youngster to have an impact: We have a few established players who are still young - Martins, Taylor and Milner, then N'Zogbia who, though his abilities are more or less known, still has to prove he has the attitude to star in our team and play regularly and consistently. For me, thats not so much in question, he just needs to play. Besides from him, for a youngster likely to make a breakthrough, we have Carroll up front who has looked good in pre season, who is tall but with a good touch, then Huntington who, being perhaps fourth choice centre back at the moment, may well get more games than Carroll.

Best Transfer: Geremi and Viduka on frees are both great signings being proven Premiership quality, Geremi particularly good since hes at his peak arguably, age wise. Im most excited about Rozehnal as a centre back with experience, class, ability on the ball, is what we have needed for a long time. It will, hopefully, be a joy to watch someone at the back who looks at ease on the ball, who can start moves from the back rather than lump balls forward. And since he is experienced, he should bring out the best in Taylor too, and in the whole back line.

Worst Transfer: I dont know, we havent signed any absolute rubbish, but Im not over the moon with either the Barton transfer or the Smith transfer. Strictly in terms of football ability, Barton is perhaps a mild improvement on Parker and for a cheaper price, but hes hardly a player you can really respect, who will inspire joy when you see him wearing the Newcastle shirt. Smith was an expensive buy who wont improve the team, and as such hes a bit of a waste of money. As a squad player hes not bad, and if we are going for a three man midfield, he could do a job when required, but Id not put him near the starting eleven and we have at least four forwards more talented than him.

Top Goalscorer: Considering we will probably go 4-3-3 at least some of the time, and that hes likely to head the forward line there, Ill go with Viduka.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Nicky Butt is not good enough to be in our starting eleven - Id play either Barton or Geremi further back ahead of him, or preferably do something like attempt to hijack Fernandes from Everton. Stephen Carr has had somewhat of a resurgence in pre season, but I still have big doubts about him as a footballer. Whatever his individual performance, he plays in his own little world, hes one of the most mindless players Ive seen, and is liable to let down the rest of the defence.

Weakness in your team: Like I say, I think we need a better defensive midfielder than Nicky Butt, who is a very limited player. Hes not quick, resorts too often to tasteless trips and kicks on the opposition, and cannot pass the ball any distance. Im hopeful and very confident in Rozehnal, Taylor and Cacapa in the centre of defence, and Enrique sounds a good talent at left back, but if that wasnt to gel then we would obviously feel that worst.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 6th.

Heart Says: 6th and one of the domestic cups.

Key player: Dean Ashton-He makes us click.

Youngster to have an impact: Mark Noble-This guy has already shown what he's capable of. He has great passing, shooting and best of all his tackling is immense. He goes straight in 100% no matter who it is. The best thing about him is he's WHU through and through. He plays with such passion and emotion.

Best Transfer: Freddie Ljungberg-He has been fantastic in every pre-season game for us. For £3m you can't go wrong. He's a great player and has so much experience. A player of his quality will do wonders for our team.

Worst Transfer: None...I'm happy with every single signing so far.

Top Goalscorer: Dean Ashton.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold:
Nigel Quashie and Carlton Cole.

Weakness in your team:
Perhaps the fact they will need some time to gel...but generally should be fine. I think the only weakness we have is we are a couple of midfielders short. We haven't got lots of creativity at the moment...but I'm sure we'll bring someone in.

Head Says: 7th...two good cup runs.

Heart Says: 6th...league cup winners.

Noble kicks ass.

Freddie Ljungberg wrote:Key player: Dean Ashton-He makes us click.

Youngster to have an impact: Mark Noble-This guy has already shown what he's capable of. He has great passing, shooting and best of all his tackling is immense. He goes straight in 100% no matter who it is. The best thing about him is he's WHU through and through. He plays with such passion and emotion.

Best Transfer: Freddie Ljungberg-He has been fantastic in every pre-season game for us. For £3m you can't go wrong. He's a great player and has so much experience. A player of his quality will do wonders for our team.

Worst Transfer: None...I'm happy with every single signing so far.

Top Goalscorer: Dean Ashton.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold:
Nigel Quashie and Carlton Cole.

Weakness in your team:
Perhaps the fact they will need some time to gel...but generally should be fine. I think the only weakness we have is we are a couple of midfielders short. We haven't got lots of creativity at the moment...but I'm sure we'll bring someone in.

Head Says: 7th...two good cup runs.

Heart Says: 6th...league cup winners.

I let Deano answer this for me, he seems to be always right about all things West Ham, also because for the last two I'd of probably said league champs and two cups, but thats just me

Di Canio Is A God wrote:

Freddie Ljungberg wrote:Key player: Dean Ashton-He makes us click.

Youngster to have an impact: Mark Noble-This guy has already shown what he's capable of. He has great passing, shooting and best of all his tackling is immense. He goes straight in 100% no matter who it is. The best thing about him is he's WHU through and through. He plays with such passion and emotion.

Best Transfer: Freddie Ljungberg-He has been fantastic in every pre-season game for us. For £3m you can't go wrong. He's a great player and has so much experience. A player of his quality will do wonders for our team.

Worst Transfer: None...I'm happy with every single signing so far.

Top Goalscorer: Dean Ashton.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold:
Nigel Quashie and Carlton Cole.

Weakness in your team:
Perhaps the fact they will need some time to gel...but generally should be fine. I think the only weakness we have is we are a couple of midfielders short. We haven't got lots of creativity at the moment...but I'm sure we'll bring someone in.

Head Says: 7th...two good cup runs.

Heart Says: 6th...league cup winners.

I let Deano answer this for me, he seems to be always right about all things West Ham, also because for the last two I'd of probably said league champs and two cups, but thats just me

I'd usually be the same. It's great having another passionate West Ham supporter on here.

Freddie Ljungberg wrote:

Di Canio Is A God wrote:

Freddie Ljungberg wrote:Key player: Dean Ashton-He makes us click.

Youngster to have an impact: Mark Noble-This guy has already shown what he's capable of. He has great passing, shooting and best of all his tackling is immense. He goes straight in 100% no matter who it is. The best thing about him is he's WHU through and through. He plays with such passion and emotion.

Best Transfer: Freddie Ljungberg-He has been fantastic in every pre-season game for us. For £3m you can't go wrong. He's a great player and has so much experience. A player of his quality will do wonders for our team.

Worst Transfer: None...I'm happy with every single signing so far.

Top Goalscorer: Dean Ashton.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold:
Nigel Quashie and Carlton Cole.

Weakness in your team:
Perhaps the fact they will need some time to gel...but generally should be fine. I think the only weakness we have is we are a couple of midfielders short. We haven't got lots of creativity at the moment...but I'm sure we'll bring someone in.

Head Says: 7th...two good cup runs.

Heart Says: 6th...league cup winners.

I let Deano answer this for me, he seems to be always right about all things West Ham, also because for the last two I'd of probably said league champs and two cups, but thats just me

I'd usually be the same. It's great having another passionate West Ham supporter on here.

Yeah great to have a West Ham supporter as an admin, haha. Now to get a adminship myself and put these spurs, chelski and gooner supporters in line, mwuhahahaha.

Key player - Woodgate probably, if he stays fit. Tuncay could be interesting though..I do think if we sell Yak we're in serious trouble though.

Youngster to have an impact - Could be Adam Johnsons year..or maybe Graham Owens..had a good season last year in reserves/youth stuff. Wheater aswell.

Best Transfer - Tuncay..we havent really done much else. Woodgate we already sort of had.

Worst Transfer - Aliadiere, might surprise us all(fingers crossed) but probably not.

Top Goalscorer - Yak should we keep him.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold- Jason Euell, Mendieta, am willing to give Rochemback one more chance before including him. Probably Dong Gook aswell.

Weakness in your team - Season hasnt kicked off yet and we're already without Woodgate, Pogo..possibly Riggott and Bates got another bad injury. Defence may start off as Davies and Wheater on Saturday I like them both(well, Wheater looks a really good prsopect) but they're not exactly expereinced as a partnership and Davies has a habit of being really good or really $h!t.

Head Says - 13th - 16th

Heart Says - 9th

Yup...you have no chance of being banned

I now expect some of people to have a moan about that...anyone who does. f@ck you

Freddie Ljungberg wrote:Yup...you have no chance of being banned

I now expect some of people to have a moan about that...anyone who does. f@ck you

haha thanks the moaners can p!ss off

Di Canio Is A God wrote:Yeah great to have a West Ham supporter as an admin, haha. Now to get a adminship myself and put these spurs, chelski and gooner supporters in line, mwuhahahaha.

I'd tread more carefully if I were you

S4P wrote:

Di Canio Is A God wrote:Yeah great to have a West Ham supporter as an admin, haha. Now to get a adminship myself and put these spurs, chelski and gooner supporters in line, mwuhahahaha.

I'd tread more carefully if I were you

Chelski *cough cough* Chelsea is ok, not as bad as Spurs or Millwall, just joking just joking.

Hlebadinho wrote: Taarabat impressed me last season. Shame he didnt decide to join us.

Key player: Van Persie, will score the goals that we need.

Youngster to have an impact: Abou Diaby/ Denilson. Both have impressed every time they play and if Gilberto gets injured, one of these two will have to step up and delvier which i think they will. Diaby has fantastic ball control and can dribble like a winger, he just needs to concentrate at actually affecting the game. Same with denilson apart from it is his passing which is fantastic.

Best Transfer: Not much to choose from but Eduardo has looked good in pre season and hopefully will be able to quickly adapt to the prem and score above 10 league goals.

Worst Transfer: The lack of a goalscoring winger, amazing as Hleb is.

Top Goalscorer: Van Persie.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Got rid of Ljungberg, so none really.

Weakness in your team: Becoming too narrow, even for our style of player, thus getting congested and not creating enough chances against teams who park the bus in front of goal. Also, the obvious, failing to finish chances.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: Fourth place and at least quartersin champions league.

Heart says: Thrid or second and a win in a cup competition.

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This means putting many men behind the ball and being very defensively minded. You rarely make any attacks on goal.

Key player: Robin Van Persie

Youngster to have an impact: Cesc Fabregas, Had a big impact previously but he needs to add a few goals to his game, if he does he could launch himself into the top echalon of footballers

Best Transfer: Eduardo Da Silva -not much of a choice here but a goalscorer is what was needed

Worst Transfer: The fact that we haven't signed a winger

Top Goalscorer: RVP. Maybe Eduardo if he settles well of RVP has a long term injury

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Flamini

Weakness in your team: The lack of ability to finish the chances that we create and be ruthless in front of goal. Also a lack of squad depth in wide positions

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 4th

Heart Says: 1st. Starting the season really well and winging on the back of that morale

Key player: Wayne Rooney

Yes Cristiano has a better standing in the game at the moment, but I expect Rooney to be excellent this season. Great end to last season, great pre-season and will score loads if he's played as the lone striker.

Best Transfer: For the CL I'd say Hargreaves, for the Premier League I'd say Nani or Tevez. Overall I'll go with Tevez. Should provide really good support for Rooney and Ronaldo and can produce moments of magic when needed.

Worst Transfer: Hard to pick one out of the four, but the one with the most to prove is arguably Anderson. Hell of a lot of money and may find it hard to get games.

Top Goalscorer: Rooney. I really think he could be aiming for 25+.

Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Really suprised we haven't sold Bardsley.

Weakness in your team: A strong target man when Saha is out and maybe the goalkeeper.

Prediction for the coming season..

Head Says: 2nd, maybe a domestic cup.

Heart Says: 2 of the big trophies - CL, Premier League, FA cup.

Parks lives wrote:
Player that are not good enough and still needs to be sold: Really suprised we haven't sold Bardsley.

we might get desperate yet. have no right back at the minute

Bardsley's a bit like Alan Smith, only he plays at rightback. Not a particularly good player, but he loves kicking the opposition.

Parks lives wrote:
Top Goalscorer: Rooney. I really think he could be aiming for 25+.

League or altogether?

Roger Hunterrific wrote:Bardsley's a bit like Alan Smith, only he plays at rightback. Not a particularly good player, but he loves kicking the opposition.

And the assistant referee.

In all competitions. Anything around 16 - 18 in the league would be great.

Parks lives wrote:In all competitions. Anything around 16 - 18 in the league would be great.

He should get 18 in the league. Looked good in pre season and maybe will play better due to the spot light now being off him slightly.