Alan Curbishley is a waste of space. I believe he has got to be sacked before West Ham can move up the league. Yes he has had a okay season but is that good enough does a team who has spent over twenty million pounds be doing okay. I think not.
I think West Ham need to get a manager with a lot more flare a lot more vigour because Curbishley is safe. But safe isn't good enough. Tenth in the league just doesn't cut it. A team of West Ham's calibershould not be tenth they should be pushing for UEFA cup places. I think a suitable manager is someone like Avram Grant. Yes he has been sacked by Chelsea but doesn't anyone stop and think about what he did. I think that is suitable for West Ham.
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So where do West Ham go from here well they need to stand up and sack Curbishley and bring in a suitable for the job of manager of West Ham united.
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2 months ago
haha, this made me laugh. he saves them from relegation one season, and mid table is not enough the next! jeeeez, so many teams would die for the chance to get tenth, yet west ham think they are above that. that says a lot for their fellow teams don't it. uefa cup? u must be joking, quality teams get in the uefa cup, west ham aren't that good yet. give the man a chance!
this article just shows all that is wrong with football today. miracles are expected from a manager, who saved a shit club from the drop.
2 months ago
I think Curbishley shouldn't of been made West Ham manager in the 1st place. I hate seeing chairmen sacking managers left right and centre, i don't think its the right thing to do. But with Curbishley, its a mistery why he was hired as manager in the 1st place.
When he was hired, we had just been taken over and had huge amounts of funds, they then get Curbishley to be our manager and spend those funds. Does anyone remember Curbs spending millions of pounds at Charlton? no, his never used money like this before, and he made silly buys like Boa Morte, Davenport and Ljungberg (well in Freddies case, a REDICULOUS wage). With Charlton as well, they never pushed for europe, they were always a mid table team who posed little threat to any team.
I love the fact that West Ham has had a great history of British managers, and only having 11 managers in our history, but a manager like Grant might of been amazing, we need a big name, we need a big name to lead us and attract other big name players. i'd hate to see us just fire another manager because then the board might fall into the same trap as other teams and just getting rid of manager after manager. but we need to make an impact in the league, i can't see us making an impact with Curbishley leading us. we need a new manager, but we need that manager to be like Fergurson (in the way he has manager Man U for 20 odd years, and there arguebly the best team in world). We need a manager who will be with us for a long time and has the faith of the board, players, and most importantly the fans. I think alot of the West Ham fans don't belive that Curbs will make West Ham a big club like he and the Chairman say.
A foriegn manager might be the way forward for West Ham United, i just know it isn't Curbishley, he's just mearly an average manager. NOT a manager that will push for europe.
2 months ago
I disagree. He comes on board in the middle of the worst season for the Irons in their recent history, rights the ship and pulls off the great escape (aided immensely by Carlos Tevez, of course) and then guides to a solidly mid-table position in the middle of an injury crisis that leaves us with the bare minimum of players to fill the bench some weeks, and now you want to sack him? I don't feel that he's the long-term solution or the man that will guide us to Europe, but I think he should get at least one more season to see what he can do with the players he's brought in (most of whom were injured this campaign, lest we forget) before we off him.
2 months ago
Sack Curbs? Nah i don't think so, it's too late in the day to do that now. If you're going to sack a manager it needs to before the end of the season with the club in a good position, otherwise the new manager is handicapped before he starts. Any manager needs to take stock of the players at his disposal and see what he can get out of them before selling them. I'll agree that Curbs doesn't have the charisma of some other managers like Jose or Fergie, but that should not distract from his technical ability.
We do see it all to often in the PL when an unproven manager takes hold of a club, gets given FULL control and steers them to gradually towards playing in a consistent style. Take a look at Big Sam. How many years at Bolton? He dragged them up to the PL by running the club his way, and sorting out the style and tactics his way. Bolton became a very difficult club to beat, and entered Europe for the first time in god knows how many years (or it might have been their first jolly abroad, sorry but i'm not that much of an anorak). After a a brief spell in charge of Toon he was booted out, with no chance to change things around. How many years did it take Bolton to get into Europe? Does any chairman in their right mind know how much time it takes? Even Fergie didn't win everything in his first year with manyoo, and some would say that he's the best manager in the Europe if not the world (joined manyoo 1986, first won the league in 92/93 season, first trophy was 89/90 season). What would have happened if the chairman of manyoo took advice from the supports who waved a banner stating "Three years of excuses and it's still crap. Ta ra Fergie."
Sit back, relax and let the man get on with his job. Yeah okay it might take a few years to get into Europe with Curbs, but Rome wasn't built in day. I'd rather we took our time than watch our Biscuit Barron become a joke like Abramovich.
Come on you Irons.
2 months ago
What a joke article by an obviousely lazy and uninformed reporter. Great esacape, 10th place, no Tevez and half the first team out all season. What he has achieved this past year and a bit is quite remarkable. With Deano signing a new contract and all the palyers back I think this year will be quite exciting.
from 2 months ago
Im sorry but i hardly find Dean Ashton a great signing. By the way don't call me uninformed or lazy, i have a West Ham season ticket and know all the facts about West Ham. Yeah the Great esacape was amazing but we all have to move on and move up and unless something changes we will be saying the same thing next year.
from 2 months ago
And also don't comment on another persons article saying they are lazy when you haven't written an article yourself.
2 months ago
What utter rubbish. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor was Manchester United. I think Alan Curbishley is bringing the Hammers along quite steadily and will also persevere with the young local talent. As someone born in West Ham over 70 years ago and who has supported the Hammers for as long as I can remember, I'd prefer to see the team predominantly home bred as in 1965 when nine players who cost no more than their £10 signing on fees, plus Alan Sealey from Leyton Orient and Jim Standen from Arsenal reserves, both signed for nominal fees, won the European Cup Winners Cup. For all their trophies, Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea have never had such home produced talent. I hope the Hammers buck the trend of just chasing foreign talent even though many are excellent players. Let's just hope that they then don't sell them as they were forced to do when they were relegated, having already sold Ferdinanad and Lampard.
Alan Burgess, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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from 2 months ago
I just feel that football is moving on and yes we must preserve young talent but we also need to bring in the best talent.
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