West Ham United (A) | Sun 7th Aug | Post Match Thread

I bet that Rory Jennings is absolutely gutted after today. Ever since we signed him he's been going on and on about how Haaland is going to flop at City.
 
The extra cherry on top of today's cake is we have a new Penalty Taker too.
 
mancityscot said:
cancelo, rodri and gundo were fucking superb.
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Yep. And then look at who we could bring on as subs. Unbelievable, gives me goosebumps.

A lot of flapping about not buying a left back, but we should all take Pep at his word that he likes a smaller squad. Easier to keep everyone happy, but at the same time in their toes.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
Right. I've seen Aguero miss sitters. Every attacker in the world does. But since Aguero left we've missed a goal scorer who is natural and who you instinctively back in a one on one. Not a knock on Sterling or Jesus, they had and have many excellent qualities, but they just don't have that killer instinct. I think it's fair enough to say that even in that one moment today you saw someone at complete ease in front of goal.
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Like you said Sterling and Jesus had their qualities. However Sterling was very poor when having a clear run on goal with just the keeper to beat - more often than not got caught in 2 minds , feet mixed up and often not even getting a shot away! Jesus for all his work rate did not possess a great shot which seemed to typical of most Brazilian strikers. I think that both will get similar goal numbers for their respective new clubs but Haaland will score loads for us!
 
Vienna_70 said:
No doubt, he’ll be the new "boo-boy", now that Raheem has left.

I too thought Jack was excellent. He kept the right side of their defence occupied all game.
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He was getting grief in the match thread from the experts on here. There's a few on here with a clear agenda against him. Which I find sad. But there you go, that's their choice.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
I bet that Rory Jennings is absolutely gutted after today. Ever since we signed him he's been going on and on about how Haaland is going to flop at City.
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Now that guy is the biggest bellend on YouTube. Absolutely full of shit and talks like he’s the font of all knowledge when in fact he hasn’t got a clue. Gobshite
 
David El Mago Silva said:
Noticed that Cancelo and Walker barely overlapped at all today and were both playing the inverted full-back role which allowed Gundogan and De Bruyne to play higher up. Coincidentally (or maybe not) both goals came via through balls from Gundo and KDB.

Looks like this might be Pep's solution to not having the natural width from a left-footed LB that he was expecting to have with Cucurella, i.e., to allow both number 8's more freedom to create.
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it’ll change every game, that’s why he’s the best in the world
 
bluemoon32 said:
Why the comparisons between Haaland and Sterling ?
Sterling wasn't a main striker ffs, he still did a bloody good job for us over the years though & that shoudn't be forgotten.
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Probably just the space & time he had would have almost certainly led to a Sterling brain fart. Sterling was never good when presented with enough time to think, when it was done instinctively he generally did well. Whereas as soon as we saw him skin the defender everyone expected haaland to score.
 
I think Grealish did fine today but he should primarily be used in midfield and rotate with KDB, Bernardo and Gundogan. It will be hard benching any of them but that’s his job.

Our forward line should be four players: Alvarez, Haaland, Foden, Mahrez.

I know we have a lot of games to play but I hope we will see Haaland and Alvarez together, either two strikers or Alvarez on the left wing. He offers too much to just be a substitute for Haaland.
 
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Brightwell Bros. said:
Gary Neville and Roy Keane talking about how poor United looked while Alfie's son just scored two on his debut. I feel like I need to pinch myself but also some things never change. The only difference is it's not normally this bright out when I'm sat here on my sofa on a Sunday.
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Did you see the bit where the female co-presenter and the presenter touched on the history between Keane and Haaland senior.....

Something along the lines of when Micah said we saw a lot of Alfie in the stands today.......

Presenter ......he was probably waiting for Roy....

Keane - yeah probably - looking quite embarrased (thought he went red in actually with embarassment)

Micah laughed and the co-presenter said something like - of we better move on and Keane agreed
 
Haaland, Haaland.
Alfie Haaland was a blue,
Eerling Haaland is one too!
Ha ha ha ha. Ha.
Hey!
 
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