Slaven Bilic

[poplargeezer]

seeing him last night on the touchline wearing a suit and a woolly hat made me ask if the 'Benny from Crossroads' look is in fashion?

[Frankie the mac]

I am sure that when he was with us, we had just been knocked out of the cup by someone like Wrexham, and there were protests outside the stadium about the board, the team, the price of pies, etc. He went out to speak to the fans about, which sent him sky high in my estimation. Then he went to Everton, and became a c**t.

[Limehouse]

class defender, born leader, looked after Rio (on and off the ball) as he developed in the 1st team. So he went for more money - just like 99% of us do in our careers. Finally - picking up on an early poster - if he got up Harry's bugle then that's the icing on the cake!

[SpongeBob's Pants]

Legend.

[psychoscoredthelot]

he was a rock and then become a cock
he is now in a suit and a hat shock

[DaveWHU1964]

Legend.

Hardly. He spent just one season with us then left us once he'd made his name. Terrific player but no more than a foot-note in our history in comparison to our genuine legends.

[Paolo Futre]

Fantastic one-on-one, and a real leader on the pitch.

As others said, money talks... and the way he shafted Blanc in the 98 semi's still annoys me now.

[leyton Hammer]

I do remember that the PR coming out once he'd got the Everton move was that he wanted to stay to the end of the season to help us avoid relegation. I don't know how much that was PR and how much was contractually agreed, but I still remember him in pretty fond terms.

I am sure he only stayed until the end of the season to get a LOYALTY bonus. Remember going Spuds away and losing 1-0 after he tried to dribble the ball out from the back, losing it and getting out paced by Sheringham for the winner!

[daveyboymarra]

Slaven was one of my all time favourite West Ham players growing up. He was a great Tutor to Rio Ferdinand as well. I wanted him to be our Manager instead of Zola a few years ago.

[SpongeBob's Pants]

Hardly. He spent just one season with us then left us once he'd made his name. Terrific player but no more than a foot-note in our history in comparison to our genuine legends.

Sorry, i didn't mean West Ham legend

[BFS]

Sounds like he had a fantastic season for us, and could have gone on to become a terrific player for the club had he not left for Everton in such a hurry.
Of what you guys have been saying about him, he seems to be exactly the type of player we could do with alongside Tomkins next season: a physically imposing, strong, powerful, intelligent defender with great leadership skills. Tomkins and Reid have been impressive this season, and both greatly improved, but I'm not sure if that partnership is quite good enough for the Premier league yet.

And if we look back at the most successful defensive duo's of the past few years, there has more often than not been that combination of a ball playing defender such as Tomkins, with a more dominant and aggressive centre-half such as Bilic: Ferdi-Vidic, Terry-Carvalho, Campbell-Toure (arsenal invicibles), Kompany-Lescott, Ramos-Pepe, Cannavaro-Matterazzi (italy 2006), and the list goes on...
That saying, I'm not quite sure who fits that bill and is a realistic target.

[Czech Hammer]

he was a rock and then become a cock
he is now in a suit and a hat shock

You are Dizzee Rascal and I claim my £5. Buh-Buh-Buh Buh-Buh Bonkers.

[Darling]

From memory it was something like:

Ludo

Breaker Bilic Reiper Dicks

Williamson Bishop Moncur Hughes

Dowie Cottee

If we just had a bit more fire power up front...

[Czech Hammer]

I agree, Darling.

[RichieRiv]

My mate's dad met Harry on a golf course at the time, and Harry didn't hold back in what he thought of him.

Well of course Harry is unimpeachable

Slaven was one of my all time favourite West Ham players growing up. He was a great Tutor to Rio Ferdinand as well. I wanted him to be our Manager instead of Zola a few years ago.

And you nearly got your wish (once Zola was given the spanish archer). G&S were unwilling to meet his demands for a war chest.