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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

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tommo84 said:
Simon Keane on the comments to that article really cannot stand to give us any credit can he?! His bitterness is most enjoyable.
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I noticed that, also don't know where the notion that we're arrogant comes from.

We are a pretty self-aware bunch, we know we were dog shit for ages and we now expect to be challenging for the top four, the title and trophies because of the growth of the club. To me there is a delusion and double standard from supporters of other clubs that our expectations should not change over time based on what we see from our club.

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tommo84 said:
Simon Keane on the comments to that article really cannot stand to give us any credit can he?! His bitterness is most enjoyable.
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I think he's quite fair...

Simon Keane said:
Kane is just like Torres at Liverpool. Looks great because everything is played through him and for him. When he moves he will look pants , mark my words
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Not what they are saying but thinking back to them beating us in the league cup final a couple of years ago and when we left the stadium there were Chelsea fans on the tube who didn't even stay and watch their team lift the trophy.

Thats the level of their fans. Pathetic.
 
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CockOnBall said:
West Ham fans in glowing praise about us. (n)

https://www.westhamtillidie.com/posts/2017/04/20/will-west-ham-close-the-gap-on-spurs
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Sir Henry said:
1st picture is no lie, she clearly looks like she ate spurs. fat cow.
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Ha! I knew I wasn't the only one reading the 8 as 'Ate'.

It's also good to see that they clearly have some of West Ham's finest academics spell checking every shirt as it is printed, to ensure such consistent quality off the pitch as on :whistle:
 
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CockOnBall said:
West Ham fans in glowing praise about us. (n)

https://www.westhamtillidie.com/posts/2017/04/20/will-west-ham-close-the-gap-on-spurs
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There are actually a couple of very good comments, praising how our club is run, from top to bottom.

"I honestly don;t know why some of us here are so obsessed with how they are doing. They act and think like a top 6 team. We are at the other end of the spectrum. We are now allegedly looking at John Terry, Jermaine Defoe, Sagna and Zabaletta from City. I don't want any of that to be true but thats the mentality of our board. Its a wonder our fans don't adopt Barbara Striesands "Second Hand Rose" as our theme song. It would certainly ring a bell with our board."

"Provocative Post.
The gap between Spurs and West Ham in my opinion has nothing to do with Finances. It has to do with the fact they are well managed and we are comparatively poorly managed, both as a business and as a a football team.
Many on here deride our owners for the lack of spending in the transfer market.
Over the last 5 year we have a net spend of 154m euros, ranking us 6th, just above Sunderland. Spurs on the other hand have spent £20m Euros, ranking them 19th in the Premier League.
Clearly that's not the reason why they are doing better than us.
The problem is that they have spent well and we have, generally wasted our money.
They have a policy of buying young players, where there is potential to sell on at a profit - pretty much the exact opposite of the way our transfer policy is developing.
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/pre...tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons
Spurs don't seem to waste money on loan signings. Do they have any players on loan? Can anyone thing of a successful loan signing at West Ham? Not only is this a poor use of resources, but it stops young players from developing.
Add to that they are actually bringing players through their youth team, such and Kane and Winks, and producing players they can sell to other premiership clubs.
Spurs are renowned for being a fit team. We on the other hand seemed to be one of the less fit teams in the league.
We on the other hand aren't even porducing players that can cut it in the Championship and League 1. Something has gone very seriously wrong with our youth set up.
Their manager is head and shoulders above ours. The team is fitter, he will trust young players to do a job and nurtures them. On balance he gets more out of the players he signs and increases their value. Ours generally become worse players when they join West Ham and lose value.
Spurs have one of the strongest defences in the League: we have one of the weakest. Responsibility for our poor defence lies fairly and squarely on the managers shoulders: he picks the team, all the coaches are his appointments, he is responsible for organising the team. He has signed a number of the defenders.
I am not sure why a West Ham fan site should focus exclusively on Spurs, as opposed to the many other teams in the league who are doing better than us.
What interests me is how West Ham fulfill its potential:
to me that means better use of the transfer market, Its not the price you player for a player that but the value of the player you sign. We want to get the best possible value for the least possible outlay. £20 for Simone Zaza would not have been money well spent. £65000 a week for Alvaro Arbeloa is not good value for money. I do not criticise the owners for the amount they have spent, but for the amount they have wasted. The solution is not to spend more, but to spend better.
Focusing on just one club, Spurs, who don't even regard us as a rival, is a mistake. It shoes a small mind mentality.
West Ham is a club with great potential and a terrific fan base. We have a great heritage. We can have a great future. We need to buy well, develop our own players and to sign and develop promising players.
They may have 63200 people on their season ticket waiting list, to our 55000. But we do have 52000 season ticket holders. So that comparison isn't really comparing like with like."
Are they a bigger club than us. I would say historically they pretty much always have been. They currently are.
 
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tommo84 said:
Simon Keane on the comments to that article really cannot stand to give us any credit can he?! His bitterness is most enjoyable.
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'It's not that long ago since they had 2 points after about 10 games . They could go back there just as easily if Pochettino leaves.'

Love how bitter he is.
 
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