West Ham -HOME - Sat. Aug 25th 3PM

[TeeCee]

Emery seems to be trying to fill round holes with square turds and it's all gone a bit squishy!

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

torreira for xhaka
lichsteiner for bellerin
lacazette for iwobi

seems obvious

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

btw bellerin is the worst player in the prem

[augie]

torreira for xhaka
lichsteiner for bellerin
lacazette for iwobi

seems obvious

So you are leaving on mikki and ramsey then ?? There has been no-one, and I mean no-one worse than those two

[Ray C]

Relegation battle. Two useless teams giving the ball away & missing chances. Neither team has much improvement off the bench so nothing will change.

[DB10GOONER]

btw bellerin is the worst player in the prem

Not even near.... he's not even the worst player in our team....

[rodders999]

Christ that was fucking horrific....at what point should we start getting seriously concerned about the new regime? We are getting torn apart at will here.

[DB10GOONER]

We need someone to get their foot on the ball and create chances for Boomerang. The Welsh Messi-Lite and Mickey Tarragon aren't doing it. Ozil's off on sick leave again. Lacazette is not a creator. What do we do? Move Guendouzi forward? He has a pass in him.....

[GoonerMuzz]

Christ that was fucking horrific....at what point should we start getting seriously concerned about the new regime? We are getting torn apart at will here.

I know it's not a popular view but i really see no difference between this season and last, same mistakes from the same players and the new players barring Sokratis and Guendozi not getting game time.

I know he needs to be given time but how long? We were rightly scathing of AW's tactics, team selection etc but for some reason the same standard can't be held up to UE. Many on here said the most basic indicator was an improvment in performance as a team, not necessarily results, but right now i can't see it.

Mhiki, Welsh Messi and Auba did next to nothing in that half, Belerin was poor as was Iwobi i know a rebuild takes time but at the moment i'm more worried about dropping into the teams behind us rather than chasing the teams ahead.

[NickF]

Very Keystone Kops at the back. We're going to have to score a few more with this defending. Why keep playing it out from the back when the players clearly ain't good enough to do this?

[DB10GOONER]

Very Keystone Kops at the back. We're going to have to score a few more with this defending. Why keep playing it out from the back when the players clearly ain't good enough to do this?

For me that's the most annoying thing tbh. It's suicidal.

[TeeCee]

Very Keystone Kops at the back. We're going to have to score a few more with this defending. Why keep playing it out from the back when the players clearly ain't good enough to do this?

That's exactly the point. He wants to play a system but we don't have the players to play it because they are stuck in the habits of Wongaball. He should change how they play if they can't play his way. A manager has to be as adaptable as his players. I still can't understand why we can't address the basics. We know our CB's are very poor and slow, so play Torreira and Douzi in front of them for protection, Muckytarragon is just not good enough and nor is Xhaka.

[DB10GOONER]

It's Football 101. You build the system around the strengths and weaknesses of the players you have not around an ideal.

[augie]

Very Keystone Kops at the back. We're going to have to score a few more with this defending. Why keep playing it out from the back when the players clearly ain't good enough to do this?

That's exactly the point. He wants to play a system but we don't have the players to play it because they are stuck in the habits of Wongaball. He should change how they play if they can't play his way. A manager has to be as adaptable as his players. I still can't understand why we can't address the basics. We know our CB's are very poor and slow, so play Torreira and Douzi in front of them for protection, Muckytarragon is just not good enough and nor is Xhaka.

The 3rd and 5th fastest players in our squad apparently

[xisstential]

Time might have come to put our pride in our pocket and put the call in to Hodgson. £1m bonus to keep us up......