Mateus Ferdnandes

[Welshspur60]

Simons was hardly an unknown prospect.

I wanted us to get him before the Eze and MGW plays.

 

[metalgear]

does West Ham need to sell?
i thought they were in some financial trouble with the relegation and all

i think we need a somerville more

 

[Bullet]

Freud would find it interesting that @robp135 slid his extra little d into "Mateus Ferdnandes"

Maybe he was dreaming of Big Les Ferdinand at the time?

 

[Raziel]

Totally fair for me. RDZ comes in and has a downbeat, injured squad and gets us to something like the 6th best form side in the league. We have a good summer and have to navigate 38 games plus domestic cups whilst rivals have a full capacity season.

As you say, RDZ doesn't come in and declare victory because he made an incremental improvement on the last 2 league finishes. He will be targeting a CL place and of course that means minimally 5th in the current setup. What's the point of him thinking any other way.

What will be interesting is the first League Cup line-up that takes the field in his early games as manager. Frank got a pass and got Donny Rovers. Ange decided to make 8 changes and went out of the cup to Fulham. I'm hoping RDZ takes us deep into 2027 in the cups.

Like @thfcsteff I think next season could be interesting for us, new players, quite a few of our squad not in WC (fatigue will be a thing next season), no Europe, one game a week, Maddison & Kudus likely to return start of season, Deki, Xavi & Odobert later, all the new players will also give us a mentality refresh (something I think we needed more than the individual player by player), manager has some credit bag already (rare for Spurs).

So the cups will be interesting, I'd like to see us rotate as much as we safely can, give Robertson, Senesi, Danso, Spence, Gray, Bergvall, etc. the starts, both to get them on the same match fit page but to ensure we maximize our freshness for later in season. That said, if we got a favorable draw, RDZ should go for it, him saving us then following up with any trophy would give him huge credit in bank to push on even more.

 

[metalgear]

looks like we've fixed our wage issue, however i am not optimistic we can beat man U ability to pay.