Are you worried?

[Monty]

How about a change from four, four fucking two? There's a reason most other managers ditched it around 1996.

It's not exactly the same 4-4-2 played in 1996 though. When deployed as he wants it it has one full back wide and high, a double-pivot in front of the back line, the two 'wide' midfielders quite narrow and one forward pulling wide on the opposite side. Worked a beauty for a long time.

But the shape is different now, he actually tweaked it and I think that's the main problem

Agreed, it's far too open as it is.

[ROBBO]

West Hams league form dropped dramatically when playing in Europe, we do not have the squad for it, a couple of injuries leads to a dramatic fall in form.

[kippaxvilla2]

Yes. 

[Demitri_C]

West Hams league form dropped dramatically when playing in Europe, we do not have the squad for it, a couple of injuries leads to a dramatic fall in form.

I dont think  we can use the squad as a excuse tbh mate.

We chose to take two players from juventus and then send them bith out on loan, we chose to spend 30m on maatsen when you could argue we didnt need a left back, we chose to blow 50m on onana and we chose not to replace diaby & luiz. We also chose not to get a right back in even though last season we had problems there.

Its just been very poor preparation this season. The club has mad massive mistakes

[john e]

No
I’m not worried
Maybe I should be but I’m not

[Ian.]

No
I’m not worried
Maybe I should be but I’m not

Me neither John.

[Demitri_C]

No
I’m not worried
Maybe I should be but I’m not

Whats your expectations for the season? If its midtable then you have every right not be worried. But if its  champions league then i cant see how anyone cannot be. We cant defend, we cant score and just look weak in every area of the pitch.

Cant think of anything on our play thats been a improvement of last year

[stubbsyandy]

I’m not worried though would like to get back to winning!
Let’s face it, we really didn’t think we would be in Champions League at this stage, we are similar to Newcastle last season but we aren’t are a bad side, just on a bad run though please stop it now!

[SoccerHQ]

West Hams league form dropped dramatically when playing in Europe, we do not have the squad for it, a couple of injuries leads to a dramatic fall in form.

Brighton aswell last year.

Now back to playing once a week and I think they have a good chance of getting CL this season if it goes down to 5th which would be refreshing for Football as they run things brilliantly down there.

[Demitri_C]

Simply not good enough. Cant see how anyone is not worried about that

[SoccerHQ]

No
I’m not worried
Maybe I should be but I’m not

Whats your expectations for the season? If its midtable then you have every right not be worried. But if its  champions league then i cant see how anyone cannot be. We cant defend, we cant score and just look weak in every area of the pitch.

Cant think of anything on our play thats been a improvement of last year

We can still finish 6th or 7th this season imo. We win on Wednesday and we'll probably be above all of Spurs, Newcastle and Man. United again so these are the teams more on our level than Chelsea really as things stand.

[Risso]

So the least number of clean sheets in the League. Bloody hell.

[Risso]

We can still finish 6th or 7th this season imo. We win on Wednesday and we'll probably be above all of Spurs, Newcastle and Man. United again so these are the teams more on our level than Chelsea really as things stand.

I think I've spotted the flaw in your cunning plan.

[PaulWinch again]

So the least number of clean sheets in the League. Bloody hell.

It’s not even really a surprise, as a side we are so so easy to play through. The second goal was a perfect illustration of that.

[kipeye]

Emery been found out I'm afraid , we were warned by Arsenal fans .

Have to admit I did think Philogene was going to be very good. Not sure what's happened to him, as I'm seeing a different player. Then again, Bailey's been the same. Teams are employing specific tactics and we haven't changed ours at all.

Do you mean this?

To be fair, Tim makes lots of bold claims that rarely stand up to much scrutiny over time. Pretty sure he was lording the signing of Philogene, but might be mixing him up with someone else.