Who will take charge of the Hammers now!?

Portsmouth had some really class players, and a manager who has been there and done it, watford have the worst team really, and are way off being safe, it just aint happening.

FeyDerGeileWeihnachtsmann wrote:Martin Jol...

If only they hadn't lost King. If they didn't I'm confident they would avoid the drop in the first place and perhaps even go to 12th or something like that.

A shame really, since none of the newer teams play as negative or shite as Sunderland last year. Watford and Reading play exciting football (bar last week ) yet Reading has end product and Watford have to really on goals from midfield and the odd set piece.
It would be cruel if the more negative playing of the three (Sheffield U) would stay up instead of Watford. But that's football for you.

cooperclaus wrote:

TeamTurtleDoves wrote: Portsmouth were the 1st team to be bottom of the league at Xmas, and beat the drop in the EPL era.

I thought that was West Brom, with Robbo?

Yes.

But everyone had Portsmouth written off. Just remembered that Sunderland were bottom of the League for nearly the whole campaign.

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

Oh well.

£100million for a league > £20 million on young, spotty brits to get you the holy grail of ... 5th place.

Hee.

What else can £20m get you?

Let's see:

Diouf
Diao
Cheyrou
Kirkland...

Have I gone over the limit yet?

How about 1 Rebrov and 1 Anthony Gardener? ... No... no... That's *over* £20million

Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Boothroyd > Coppell >>>>>>>>>Colin W.

Snowbispo wrote:

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

Oh well.

£100million for a league > £20 million on young, spotty brits to get you the holy grail of ... 5th place.

Hee.

What else can £20m get you?

Let's see:

Diouf
Diao
Cheyrou
Kirkland...

Have I gone over the limit yet?

How about 1 Rebrov and 1 Anthony Gardener? ... No... no... That's *over* £20million

Dont forget 1 Postiga and 1 Rasiak

Coppell just got manager of the month I think.

Tinseldum wrote:Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Sorry... I'm thinking of Dean Richards!

He was some ridiculous fee like that.

Tinseldum wrote:Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Never.


Anthony Gardner cost £1m.

He means Dean Richards for £8m

L r d wrote:Portsmouth had some really class players, and a manager who has been there and done it, watford have the worst team really, and are way off being safe, it just aint happening.

Pompey also got a new manager, who brought an air of hope and possibility. New managers can be catalysator for a run in form.

If Boothrooyd (or any manager) can't spark them now, why would he be able to do it after Christmas?!


Wishful thinking.

EDIT

Deaño-Good Luck Pards! wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

Oh well.

£100million for a league > £20 million on young, spotty brits to get you the holy grail of ... 5th place.

Hee.

What else can £20m get you?

Let's see:

Diouf
Diao
Cheyrou
Kirkland...

Have I gone over the limit yet?

How about 1 Rebrov and 1 Anthony Gardener? ... No... no... That's *over* £20million

Dont forget 1 Postiga and 1 Rasiak

Shall we throw in a Blondel and an Acimovic too?

and Dean Richards and Andy Reid

Deaño-Good Luck Pards! wrote:
Dont forget 1 Postiga and 1 Rasiak

We got Mendes in return for Postiga & £5m. We sold mendes at a profit as Well

We actually made £500k on Rasiak, despite the fact he was garbage.

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Tinseldum wrote:Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Never.


Anthony Gardner cost £1m.

He means Dean Richards for £8m

Thanks for that, by the way...

Blondel & Acimovic - they were Bosmans, where they not?

Made the money back on Reid.

Deano - Tomas Repka @ £5.5m, be silent.

santagoingmarching wrote:

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Tinseldum wrote:Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Never.


Anthony Gardner cost £1m.

He means Dean Richards for £8m

Thanks for that, by the way...

Richards was great in his 1st season with us. Then he was injured a lot, and wasn't really the same after that.

santagoingmarching wrote:

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Tinseldum wrote:Did Gardner cost over £9m?

Never.


Anthony Gardner cost £1m.

He means Dean Richards for £8m

Thanks for that, by the way...

where did all that money go?

Walcott, Davies, Beatie, Richards to name a few big sales.....

I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

Roger_Hunt wrote:I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

£5.6million on Daniel Agger or £4million on Michael Dawson...

Hmm...

L r d wrote:My money will be on sven when i get my card sorted out.
Mcleish is an abysmal manager, no way him.

have a few quid on Ranieri lrd

Snowbispo wrote:

Roger_Hunt wrote:I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

£5.6million on Daniel Agger or £4million on Michael Dawson...

Hmm...

Yeah I could have said Alonso+Agger but that looks like cherry-picking!

DD wrote:

L r d wrote:Portsmouth had some really class players, and a manager who has been there and done it, watford have the worst team really, and are way off being safe, it just aint happening.

Pompey also got a new manager, who brought an air of hope and possibility. New managers can be catalysator for a run in form.

If Boothrooyd (or any manager) can't spark them now, why would he be able to do it after Christmas?!


Wishful thinking.

EDIT

Because he'll get some funds to play with in January. Watford desperately need a goalscorer, and possibly a DMF.

They already have:

*An excellent young goalkeeper (abeilt on loan)

*A Solid defence - Demerit is very good, as is Shittu.

*In Ashley Young they have a good creative spark.

*Damien Francis is capable of being productive from Midfield (he proved that with Norwich).
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A couple of players of real quality in the right areas, coupled with their team-spirit and Boothroyd's astuteness, and they can still survive.

They've only lost by more than one goal at The Emirates & Stamford Bridge.

Christmas Glenn Hysén wrote:

L r d wrote:My money will be on sven when i get my card sorted out.
Mcleish is an abysmal manager, no way him.

have a few quid on Ranieri lrd

You have some inside info?

Roger_Hunt wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

Roger_Hunt wrote:I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

£5.6million on Daniel Agger or £4million on Michael Dawson...

Hmm...

Yeah I could have said Alonso+Agger but that looks like cherry-picking!

Or... You could have said Garcia, Agger and Kuyt for under £20million... Or... Momo, Garcia, Agger and josemi for under £20mil

Rafa's a genius.

Snowbispo wrote:

Roger_Hunt wrote:I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

£5.6million on Daniel Agger or £4million on Michael Dawson...

Hmm...

£1m on Aaron Lennon or £6.7m on Jermaine Pennant?

£8.2 million, TS.

Don't forget on this forum we always use added payments as the total value.

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:

Roger_Hunt wrote:I'll just point out that £20m for Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou etc was the reason that Houllier was fired.

£20m for Alonso+Crouch looks money better spent.

£5.6million on Daniel Agger or £4million on Michael Dawson...

Hmm...

£1m on Aaron Lennon or £6.7m on Jermaine Pennant?

£5 million on Momo Sissoko or £8million on Jenas/Zakora...

TeamTurtleDoves wrote:

DD wrote:

L r d wrote:Portsmouth had some really class players, and a manager who has been there and done it, watford have the worst team really, and are way off being safe, it just aint happening.

Pompey also got a new manager, who brought an air of hope and possibility. New managers can be catalysator for a run in form.

If Boothrooyd (or any manager) can't spark them now, why would he be able to do it after Christmas?!


Wishful thinking.

EDIT

Because he'll get some funds to play with in January. Watford desperately need a goalscorer, and possibly a DMF.

They already have:

*An excellent young goalkeeper (abeilt on loan)

*A Solid defence - Demerit is very good, as is Shittu.

*In Ashley Young they have a good creative spark.

*Damien Francis is capable of being productive from Midfield (he proved that with Norwich).
-----------------------------------

A couple of players of real quality in the right areas, coupled with their team-spirit and Boothroyd's astuteness, and they can still survive.

They've only lost by more than one goal at The Emirates & Stamford Bridge.

That's why it would be a pity if they didn't stay up.