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14 Aug 2026 09:44:07
I keep reading about Troy Parrot and his name just keeps me going back to my youth and Stingray - sorry can't help it.
31 Jul 2026 15:52:08
Appears Desasi is available for £13 Million. Surely that's got to be a no brainer for West Ham. Player gets to staying London so winvwoincall arpund.
1.) 31 Jul 2026 16:46:45
West Ham agreed a deal for Disasi four weeks ago. He didn't want to play in the Championship. It's not over yet, just maybe?
2.) 31 Jul 2026 16:52:25
Fingers crossed it's the best move for him, then we can build around players like that if/when we get promoted.
23 Dec 2025 12:09:23
Seeing reports that Charlie Creswell is a done deal but from a dubious source Joyfull you any news on this
1.) 23 Dec 2025 13:03:11
Merceri sorry, mate, IT may well be but I Havnt been able to contact anyone this morning, not surprising, I suppose
Can tell you that at 4 pm yesterday, WH have signed No contracts. Nor were their any done deals
Last I heard on. Sunday re Cresswell, it was WH and Sunderland, the leading lights on this, things may have progressed, but I would hold fire
As you know many were saying Adama Traore, was a done deal, it was definitely not, as I posted yesterday
Cresswell is a young player I would like to see at WH, let’s hope your info is. correct?
2.) 23 Dec 2025 13:20:39
Exwhemployee said yesteday Cresswell wants to come, but Nuno priortising a striker.
Not sure why we can't do both.
Sullivans scattergun is back, looking at kaio George, 3 forwards from Czech league, Rafiu Durosinmi, Albion Rrahmani, Mojmir Chytil and 15 domestic based players.
Supposedly agreed to sign that LB El karouani
3.) 23 Dec 2025 13:46:54
NO, definetly not. AL c'mon mate, what's A CB got to do with a striker, sorry mate I’m, trying to be respectful towards WH ITKs but that’s just silly talk, I’m suprised at it
As posted on Banter NINE European forwards on a list not 3, ALL risky business
WH are in a fix, no question
Important decisions need to be made, and pronto, ,
4.) 23 Dec 2025 15:01:40
Yeah doesn't make sense, maybe they are trying to play it down, i know in the past its claimed that certain things are held back to avoid potentially scuppering certain deals. For me i'm surprised better placed teams wouldn't come in for him, but first team football and a release clause might swing it in our favour.
With the amount of strikers being looked at i hope we get 2, as you say risky, they might not cut in the prem but they might be more than good enough for the championship if we do go down.
5.) 23 Dec 2025 15:10:45
Cmon Joyful. This is West Ham lol ? ? we always do the same. Bid on a player, get refused, so bid on another player, bid refused, go next down the list and so on
27 Sep 2025 14:49:18
Nuno confirmed and he will take charge Monday at Everton
1.) 27 Sep 2025 15:30:46
Let’s all get behind him
2.) 27 Sep 2025 16:49:07
A damage limitation appointment 5 games into the season, complete lack of ambition by the board more boring dross football on the way
Mind you wouldn't suprise me if he left in Jan after one transfer window with sullivan
3.) 27 Sep 2025 20:21:49
So who did you want appointing?
4.) 27 Sep 2025 20:52:56
I’m not sure Nuno is the right man for WHU. We don’t have the right players that suit his defensive/on the break type football. We’re all glad to see the back of Potter, but someone like Silva or Xavi would have been a better fit. Let’s hope it works out, but I’m not putting out the bunting yet.
5.) 27 Sep 2025 21:17:06
I don’t think Nuno is a good long term bet as stated his counter attack style can be found out and may not suit the players we have. But he deserves a good chance to change things before we start slagging him off. Some of us have spent the last 9 months slagging off potter this should be a good thing and is better than some of the dross we we linked with like Dyche and Cooper! I don’t think he will be an overnight sensation but let’s give him a chance
6.) 27 Sep 2025 22:19:33
Silva would have been better ( but sully won't pay compo) , moyes left cause the football was so dull they have made 3 appointments in 12 months or so since all managers that play boring football, Luke I said we gave a whole season ahead of us basically we are no where near panic time yet soon they have panicked and got a boring "safe" manager in
7.) 28 Sep 2025 02:23:41
Why would Silva come to WH, he’s settled at Fulham? If it’s about who we’d like to see as our manager irrespective we’d all say Klopp or Pep. If we’re being realistic with these owners we’re very limited as to who would take the job. For me staying up until we have new owners has to be the target and Nuno is possibly the best of the bunch in order to achieve that. I’m not thrilled but more optimistic than I was 24 hours ago. Bring on the boring football as long as we stay up ….
8.) 28 Sep 2025 09:32:29
I make you right Dabber. It was good hearing rumours that we might start looking at employed managers like Silva. But I agree why would he leave them and come to us? We are a bigger club but with loads of problems and probably a lot of managers wouldn’t want to work with our board. Plus many decent managers are possibly waiting for the man united manager to be sacked.
We have 3 basic issues at West Ham the main one is the board, then the manager and then the players. Much as we would all like a well run board management team to buy us out and then get in a good young forward thinking manager who will work with a DOF to pick the transfer targets and potential new managers and we all live happily ever after………. The chances are it ain’t going to happen all at once. And hopefully the new manager can get this bunch of players to perform better. If he can get our defence to defend properly that will be a start. I honestly can’t predict how this is going to go. Nuno had a good season last year and was decent at wolves but was a disaster at Tottenham. I would much more prefer someone like Xavi or the Bournemouth manager but this is what we have and just hope he gets a better tune out of these players than Potter. I would like to see some youth incorporated but not sure he is well know for that.
9.) 28 Sep 2025 11:23:07
The reason Silva would leave Fulham for another project is simple: he believes he’s taken Fulham as far as he can. Mark my words, if the right project comes along, he’ll be off. There were strong rumours a while back he would replace Ange when he was at Spurs. All coaches are open to interesting new projects if there is an incentive. Realistically, the likes of Klopp or Pep wouldn’t consider WHU as we all know, but I don’t think either would suit WHU anyway. Silva would, and he would see potential in the club. Therein lies the obvious difference.
10.) 28 Sep 2025 11:36:34
Good points well made Hammer-D, we have to take baby steps and this starts with Nuno. We need to get behind him because he’s got one hell of a job to do
11.) 28 Sep 2025 13:54:15
Tin I don’t know if Silva would have done well or not. I’m not saying your wrong but I see us as a sort of replica of Everton who sacked him along with a lot of other good managers and then ended up with the likes of BFS and Shaun Dyche only to end up back at square one with Moyes! He didn’t leave Watford for the great Everton project it was for the money and the big club status. He seems to do better at small clubs.
A lot of people were raging that we didn’t go for Amorin from Sporting, looking at what an absolute sh*tshow he has been at Man U we can count ourselves lucky. A man who has had a chance to bring in his own players, they’ve failed and only he plays one failing system. It’s funny we don’t hear those same voices now .?
I agree Dabber we have to get behind him and give him a chance, although that said that’s not open ended support we need to see a change in performance, team spirit and results. I wouldn’t expect it immediately but 6-8 weeks should be enough to see if there are changes, we can’t wait for Christmas or summer to get his own players in, we need someone who is adaptable and makes the best of what we have.
12.) 28 Sep 2025 14:28:27
I think Silva would have been a better fit, given the type of players we have. Nuno is very similar to Moyes, but he hasn’t got a world class defensive midfielder to call on like Moyes had. Our defence isn’t a patch on the defence Moyes had, and we don’t have a fully fit striker for counter attacks. The playing staff available to Nuno worries me. To be honest, I see Nuno as a sideways move. Of course things might work out and I hope they do, but I’m just not entirely convinced happy days are here again just because Potter’s gone.
13.) 28 Sep 2025 16:07:49
All I can hope for is a manager that can see his best team and incorporate some of the better youth players in there. The fans would get behind that. Potts, Earthy, Marshall could easily step up.
Potter was tinkering with the team all 8 mths he was there.
But the big one though will be January and who Nuno can attract to WH because we need a young striker and faster players. I'm hoping his portuguese revolution at Wolves happens for us as well. With these owners though tbh I'm negative. We need to get them out
14.) 28 Sep 2025 20:08:54
Hammer D disaster at Tottenham, really? I wouldn't call a win rate of 47% a disaster, David Moyes had a win rate of 44% in his second spell and Moyes has the best win rate of all our managers!
15.) 28 Sep 2025 20:17:11
Nunos tactics revolve around having a strong defence and a solid defensive midfield, the same as moyes tactics the difference between us and forest where they did well last season is forest had good defenders and defensive midfielders hence why I think we will struggle under nuno, I can see us still struggling by Xmas and then he will be under pressure already can't see much good coming out of this appointment it has panic written all over it to be honest
16.) 29 Sep 2025 05:50:41
Fair point Gerry I didn’t realise it was high. I just spoke to a couple of mates who are spurs fans and they said he was crap. But that is a decent win rate.
06 Jun 2025 11:47:55
So confirmation of permanent signings of Todibo whilst Ferguson and Soler return to their clubs
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16 Aug 2026 18:02:20
The trouble is Nuno learns by his mistakes substitutions again.
1.) 16 Aug 2026 18:15:11
Sorry, missed out. Never learns by his mistakes.
2.) 16 Aug 2026 18:17:28
Seen enough Nuno out.
3.) 16 Aug 2026 18:21:11
Sorry to say that no matter what division you're in, you can't defend like that.
Not sure what Nuno sees in the Mavro and Kilman partnership, but it's not working. Scarles wasn't much better.
4.) 16 Aug 2026 18:27:58
Poor 2nd half, no point in me talking about Nuno, been there, done that. There wasn't much on the bench to bring on. On the plus side, Soloman was good, and JWP proved again he should not be in our squad. I mean, he replaced a non-event and somehow made us worse.
5.) 16 Aug 2026 18:32:52
Scarles' challenge was like a National League player. Why is he diving in like that? That just shifted the momentum in their favour. Kilman is still rubbish and fragile, a big defender who cannot win a header. Big couple of games coming up for Nuno, and he will be under pressure with his Tuchel tactics.
6.) 16 Aug 2026 18:33:00
Well p----d off. ?????⚒⚒⚒
01 Aug 2026 15:26:33
The Times reporting the Stavely deal is now done and she has 25% of the shares. Nuno just put on 3 defenders and we let in goal. He doesn't clear, does he? Eddie Howe anyone?
20 Jul 2026 15:59:38
Sad news that Kevin Keegan has passed away aged 75 after a long battle with cancer. RIP Kevin commiserations to his family and friends and the wider Liverpool supporters including Ed
{Ed001's Note - thank you mate, it is gutting. Such a gent.}
1.) 20 Jul 2026 16:40:00
He really was a terrific player who, despite his small stature, gave defenders nightmares. Growing up, his understanding with Trevor Brookings for England was a real treat. R. I. P. Kevin, and thanks for the memories.
2.) 20 Jul 2026 16:48:21
Seemed a truly decent guy and a great player. Not afraid of a challenge when he decided to go and play for Hamburg. And, as you say, Bowlyn Boy, great relationship with Brooking. Shame they both weren't fit at the start of the WC in 82, as we may have got through to the semis.
3.) 20 Jul 2026 17:09:14
RIP great player.
4.) 20 Jul 2026 17:29:26
KK, Oh what a magnificent man & everything else, personality but foremost as a person, footballer one of the greatest ever to play not only in Britain but the world, he will be tragically missed by all that knew him but firstly his family!
Sincere condolences to his family at this tragic time. ??
24 Jun 2026 23:59:38
Anyone know about Mavropanos agreeing new deal at West Ham?
1.) 25 Jun 2026 07:07:25
Dortmund are chasing him. Week after next, he and a few others will become clearer. When they return, or not, for training, then talks will take place as to which direction they want to take.
Mavrapanos is on a lower ££40 k wage; that is going to halve on July 1st, to £20 k a week. That won't be enough to keep him at West Ham, so talks required.
2.) 25 Jun 2026 17:08:36
I think you will find that Mavro is on 50k per week. But, I agree half that is not enough to keep him. I did hear the DK has offered to the players they want to keep the half wages they lose as a bonus if we go straight back up. Clever thinking, if it is true.
3.) 25 Jun 2026 21:21:14
I'd sell him, an average defender who, over the course of his West Ham career, has played well in a handful of games. If we get a decent price, sell.
4.) 26 Jun 2026 08:12:23
WHTID Mavro is on 2, , 600, 000 dollars a year, two million six hundred thousand dollars, which equates
to approx £2 m…..40 k a week.
The bonus idea was posted by myself some time ago, it is clever, it won’t suit all, but it may please some, but it further makes it difficult, maybe, for some players to make their mind up.
07 Jun 2026 10:33:41
The Panorama episode about Sullivan is tomorrow night on BBC1 at 8pm.
02 Sep 2026 19:10:11
Agree with everyone but would add the emergence of some of the youngsters, Orford, Kante, Ajalla and Golembecis.
20 Aug 2026 13:19:40
Sad thing is, he could have been a Hammer when Big Sam was manager, but Sullivan wouldn't pay £1million to Fleetwood, who were National League at the time. Sort of sums Sullivan up, really, doesn't it?
16 Aug 2026 15:29:10
Final score reporting: Parrot deal off, as West Ham didn't match £25Million asking price, and Pirot now looking more likely.
13 Jun 2026 15:58:13.
Officially announced. Kretins now the manor shareholder, having bought Vanessa Golds' shares. He now has 43%.
21 Feb 2026 13:33:31
Why would anybody spend £Billions on. Buying and. Knocking down the stadium just because you don't like it
28 Aug 2026 16:38:29
Totally agreed with you re the stadium. A home is what the people make it.
23 Aug 2026 10:12:49
Stevie and Calum Marshall scored for Luton.
16 Aug 2026 18:15:11
Sorry, missed out. Never learns by his mistakes.
24 May 2026 13:47:04
Joyful, and everyone else on here. I've just arrived at the ground, and there's lots of people around, and it's not usually this busy.
Whatever happens today, as long as we go out to win, that's all that matters, whether it's prem or championship next season. God and the Elizabeth Line willing, I'll be here.
10 May 2026 19:23:24
1 0 the referee.