Saint86

Ditto. They are exactly what I expect and as they have always been. Oh for a nice surprise every once in a while.

What the hell are you talking about.

The point is that in footballing terms, we are signing bargain basement players, purely in the hope that they'll do well and we can flog them on. The club are taking the fans for a ride - our ambition is purely to make money. Full Stop.

I don't think people are moaning at the club because we aren't spending £45-50m on GF or RB. They are moaning because we desperately need defensive reinforcements and the club show no signs of getting them in. With our current defence we are going to struggle this year.

That is exactly what this board did as soon as NC went though. Airbrushing and blame. And £16m for a young english fullback who kept Clyne out of the team and who we had zero need to sell. And £16m for Oxlade (a player with 3months experience in the 3rd tier). Both have gone on to do similar in my opinion. In my opinion, he is very very quick to take credit for others work where he can, and very quick to blame others when its convenient. Every summer, new people give him the benefit of the doubt, "one more window" etc etc... But I honestly think he has run out of ideas and is struggling just to stay afloat (why the hell was Forster given a year extension, why are we repeatedly not signing first team players whilst selling them?!?) He inherited momentum and young talented team and none of that now remains in place. I think every window more and more fans see through this facade. This window has to be his final chance to get it right. We can't afford another step back.

Cheers Leslie And yet, the acolytes still lap it up.

You are ofc right S Clarke. LR got ML to buy the club. LR signed RL and JF... ofc. LR Hired pardew, sacked him, hired Adkins, sacked him, hired poch... LR screwed arsenal to the wall with the AOC transfer, and has continued those amazing transfer negotiation skills when we sold RL, CC, AL, SM, DL etc. It was LR, and not NC that received numerous praise from the players during our rise up the english football pyramid. It was LR and his magic black box that signed DT, SM, VVD, GP, TA... nothing to do with Koeman. LR in no way dropped the bollock on TA LR in no way fell out with RK. And ofc, LR has never released misleading statements to the fans that coincided with certain season ticket deadlines etc. Never ever. Honestly, one thing Les Reed can actually stake a claim to. And I'll give him his credit for this. He hired Koeman. Looks more and more likely that that was just a lucky one off though.

As fans, we are being taken for a ride.

Our progression has slowed, stopped, and now reversed under Les Reed. He does not get credit for anything pre Koeman.

You are kidding me right. He should be kicked... out the ****ing club.

Merson thinks west ham are going to come 7th?

Golden quote which will be dragged back out in May

And that ends the next round of forum gibberish before it gets started. Thank you Mowgli.

Interesting statistic today, 66.7% of UK universities have stated that Brexit has made absolutely no difference to their recruitment of EU nationals. So thats another scare story that can be chalked off.

It should be a stark warning of where socialism ends. Although people who vote for it are generally don't live in the real world, are very gullible (students this year), or just all three combined.

I'm fairly casual about this season, we've had another crap summer with unrest and seemingly no direction... But I think we have a good manager. If only the board could deliver another year of sexual transfers like Koeman's first year. We'll come top 8! P.S. - If we win the league, I am counting that as top 8

The better question is, have you? This isn't about oil or resources. This is about a lunatic with nukes. I'll put it another way. Does anyone think there is a viable scenario for the USA, which includes North Korean having nuclear missiles capable of hitting their main land? ***** But more to the point, Russia has been massing troops along its north korean border, and across the eastern european border.

His goal vs liverpool I think it is.

Stoke - mid table.... nope 'Arry, thats a relegation fight right there. Swansea - safe... what the hell is this man talking about?!?! By default, he also has Arsenal as 7th, whilst tottenham are guaranteed top 4 apparently. The bloke is clueless.

Romeu, JWP or Davis. Simple as that.

No, you are not, he delivers a good cross but needs to improve defensively. At the moment, if anyone runs at him with pace he gets rekt.

No direct come back? Just your naive opinion presented as a 'fact', quickly followed up be insults.

What a waste of money

Get real mate, Les Reed is directly controlling the clubs strategy. To say otherwise is to be a ******* ostrich...