The thing that impressed me was his movement. He seemed to be everywhere, always an easy pass away from whoever had the ball regardless of whereabouts on the pitch the play was. Looked very pacey and unlike his Argentinian team mate, was always looking to create or pass. Seemed to have really good feet and evade challenges with ease. Early days but good technical ability is easy to spot.Yea Why Not wrote:How did Lanzini look?
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Already predicting our fall into the non-league realms. At least he's got the pessimism bit right.CHAZHAMMER wrote:Took my 5 year old to his first game today and similar to the earlier poster, who took his 3 year old, it was a great day out and priceless.
On the tube, leaving the game, he looked over to me and said very seriously "when I'm older, I want to be a policeman, a fireman and play for West Ham!"
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
Villa trying to get Berbatov on a free. Surely worth hijacking? The guy can finish which is what we need.
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
You might well be correct, but it still doesn't seem to have fully sunk into our management that bottom line isn't the be all and end all.Kludgehammer wrote:
Not sure they'd have doubled the crowd even if they pitched it at a tenner though, so they maybe got the best gate income they could.
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I'm with Romford: also gave me a BIG smile this morning!! Good on ya... and him!!!Bradley_m wrote:[qte="Romford"]Top pic fella...bought a smile to ol Roms face[/qte]
And a lifetime of misery to my little boys face!!
I have enough evidence now to ridicule him for life if he turncoats to supports another team.
West Ham til he dies now.
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The issue with the ticket pricing would be the fee charged by Bremen to play the game .
I've no doubt the club lost money hosting the match on Sunday .
I'm disappointed there appears to be a lack of a connection of any historical relevance given it's our final season at the Boleyn .I can't recall us playing this lot in a competitive match before .
Surely an invitation could have been made to Dynamo Tiblisi, for example, the nostalgia factor may have dragged a few more punters in .Maybe they're not deemed to be strong enough these days , but I'd rather see us thrash them 5-0 than get turned over by a mid table Bundesliga mob on our own turf .
I've no doubt the club lost money hosting the match on Sunday .
I'm disappointed there appears to be a lack of a connection of any historical relevance given it's our final season at the Boleyn .I can't recall us playing this lot in a competitive match before .
Surely an invitation could have been made to Dynamo Tiblisi, for example, the nostalgia factor may have dragged a few more punters in .Maybe they're not deemed to be strong enough these days , but I'd rather see us thrash them 5-0 than get turned over by a mid table Bundesliga mob on our own turf .
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Coincidentally, just read something about these last night - apparently they're also GPS enabled, so the sports science team can download data about exactly where the players where, what their heart rate was a the time, speed of runs etc.WorcesterWHU wrote:Sports bra? You mean the thing that enables the staff to track heart rate and stuff, yeah? :lol:
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
Still the same old alarming deficiencies at the centre of our defence and I know Adrian makes some good saves now and again, but he still has no real competition for his place. If we really want to be serious about moving onwards and upwards when we get the OS, I think we should be looking at getting an upgrade on him for next year.
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The £25 on the day is misleading. Surely a huge majority of a crowd would have expected to prebook at the very reasonable price of £15 ?
I always enjoy this curtain raiser to the season and expected it to be as attractive as any of the matches against the minnows..and it was. There aren't'many better ways to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.
The half pace was to be expected, Bilic wont prejudice his team building one iota by looking for performances ahead of the programme, and he is to be admired for putting out competitive sides for all these unscheduled goofy games.
I always enjoy this curtain raiser to the season and expected it to be as attractive as any of the matches against the minnows..and it was. There aren't'many better ways to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.
The half pace was to be expected, Bilic wont prejudice his team building one iota by looking for performances ahead of the programme, and he is to be admired for putting out competitive sides for all these unscheduled goofy games.
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
Only a cheaper rate for season ticket holders mate, don't forget that.irving boleyn wrote:The £25 on the day is misleading. Surely a huge majority of a crowd would have expected to prebook at the very reasonable price of £15 ?
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£2m, or so I'm informed.the pink palermo wrote:The issue with the ticket pricing would be the fee charged by Bremen to play the game .
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
We had to pay Bremen £2m? ****ing hell that's an absolute liberty. I could understand paying that to Barca or Bayern but Werder ****ing Bremen? We need our heads testing!
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
Well that one backfired spectacularly on the money front then - gate receipts in ~£200K, match fee out: £2m, nett gain/(loss): £(oops!)
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
Yeah that's stupidity if true.
Even a full ground at 20 a pop doesn't even come close.
Strange decision.
Even a full ground at 20 a pop doesn't even come close.
Strange decision.
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
2 million! Did we get Eggy back on our behalf to negotiate that?
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Where was businesswoman of the year when that deal was being done?
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
That's a chunk .I've no doubt contracts were signed before we were sure of our Europa status and it would have cost us too much to wriggle out of it .Up the Junction wrote:£2m, or so I'm informed.
It explains why Chelsea, Man Utd et al are happy to globe trot in the off season .
££££££
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haha!!EvilC wrote:Where was businesswoman of the year when that deal was being done?
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Anyone who believes the 2m figure needs to have their head checked. Leicester paid Real Madrid 1m two or three seasons back.
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Re: West Ham Utd v Werder Bremen: match thread
We could have paid it to Arsenal and played against one of their reserve full backs.Whufc06 wrote:We had to pay Bremen £2m? ****ing hell that's an absolute liberty. I could understand paying that to Barca or Bayern but Werder ****ing Bremen? We need our heads testing!