I’ve created a two question poll on who should be the next West Ham manager. The first questions asks for your first choice and the second question asks which you would be content with.
Vote HERE.
I’ve created a two question poll on who should be the next West Ham manager. The first questions asks for your first choice and the second question asks which you would be content with.
Vote HERE.
Glenn Roeder it has to be an excellent manager glory times will return to west ham YES!
Whats with you old men? keep it in the west ham tradition? wtf is that? the west ham tradition is relegation then 2 years later promotion then a few years later back down again etc etc. so going by your logic old timers, ian dowie used to play for us so give him the job yeah? leroy rosenior he played for us, he managed a few lower league teams, yep he’ll do. how about that girl down the road that used to jiggle her booty for the hammerettes at half time i’m sure she’ll jump at the chance to be the leagues first female boss. ridiculous. the west ham way has bought us a handful of fa cup trophies and not much else in over a hundred years, time to move on i think and NEVER appoint an ex west ham player ever again as manager.
As long as it isnt Dowie i think we’l be alright
I’ve always belived (hoped) that Iain Dowie would turn into a good manager. I think there’s something of the Martin O’Neill about him – that is intelligent thoughtful. Problem is a lot of what he’s about is learning and experimenting…
He’s won 4 from 5 in this stint at QPR.
But as others have said it’s a bit irrelevant if the board wants to sell every player from under any manager..
Lee
Ooooooops!! I may have tempted fate with that last post. Looks like we’re getting Dowie!!
Hey not all us ‘Old menm’ want to stick to tradition – let try and get the best man for the Job rather than a go between or some who has played for us ……….
Dowie nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Ian Dowies claret and blue army!!! it even scans. We’re doomed.
Put your money on Mancini, see link
http://ironworker.wordpress.com/2008/03/12…ng-inter-milan/
I put my money on Mancini hours ago. But i wouldn’t put any on that link its as broke as Dyers leg.
In a statement released via the League Managers’ Association he said: “I started my West Ham United career when I left school in 1974 and have remained a lifelong fan.
“I have been incredibly proud to manage such a great club and my decision to resign has been very tough.
“The selection of players is critical to the job of the manager and I had an agreement with the club that I alone would determine the composition of the squad.
“However, the club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.
“Nevertheless, I wish the club and the players every success in the future.”
Allerdyce…. no, no, NO… please NO, thrice, NO, again… I say, NO.
Mancini? Henry or Terry?
Billic/Di Canio
Allerdyce
Brooking
Moving forwards we need someone experienced who can manage with passion.
Mancini? Good record with Inter (hasn’t he just committed to another contract?) good choice
Di Canio- would be great for the fans I love the guy and would welcome him but no management experience would worry me.
Dowie- No thanks
Bilic- another good choice I feel- done very well for Croatia…
Redknapp- did really well for us last time (let down by the board- sound familiar?)another good choice…
Oh I don’t know…
I’d take Bilic, Mancini, Redknapp or Di Canio… but we’ll probably get someone awful….
Heads up (who am I trying to convince here?? myself maybe?!!) maybe the board will surprise us all….!
COYI
Short memories Bilac left us for, I quote, a bigger club and he has done nothing as a manager outside of his own country and has more than a few decent players to choose from. Redknapp with Pearce, venables a great tactition and motivator again with pearce.
Why The F**k would we want Di canio.Lets see if Sir Trev can convince Keegan to join his teams play the way we would like see given the funds he would attract the players. Bottom line lets stick to tradtion and go british !!!!!!!!!!
Di Canio may shout, scream, wave his arms about a lot and show a lot of passion but that`s not a recipe for succsess and certainly won`t win many games. He may have been a brilliant player but has no coaching experience … not what we need in the cold light of day.
Someone suggested Keegan – not likely since he is having similar trouble with his board (wish I hadn’t taken the p*** out of my barcode-supporting colleague now). Trouble is, any manager with the strength of character required to do the job is not going to put up with a board preared to do what they did to Curbs, so that rules out the likes of O’Neill.
Cannot think of anyone else possible who has not already been mentioned, so here’s some who will definitely not be taking the poisoned chalice, so feel free to spread the rumour: Nelly Warnock, Alan Shearer, Chewing Gum Ferguson, Arsenal Whinger,…
So, I’m going for Ólafur Jóhannesson.
Billic if not Di Canio. Anyone else would be a sham
i think there will be loads of names flying around, like paul ince, martin jol, harry redknapp, gary johnson, steve mclaren, slavan bilic but if we want someone west ham through and through get dicksy and di canio pride and flair to make a double act, overlooked by someone like trevor brooking.
Harry’s a good club manager,seems to find good players maybe 2 many sometimes,brooking di canio or brooking keegan,that would attract players!!!!!!!
you just get that felling it will be bilic though,hope not hes done nothing,or maybe hes got good contacts east side .,,,HEADACHE!!!!!!!!!
NOT di Canio Not Bilic Not Ince we need a proven manager NOT Just an ex Hero Wake up lads this is our future you are talking about with the exception of 4 we have always had a reasonable manager and watched decsent football. If we must have ex players then why not any of these brooking bonds mad dog pearce redknapp lampard snr they are all better than di canio or bilic. others keegan venables bruce moyes F**k me any body has got to be better than Di canio.
It’s completely irrelevant until the board let the manager dictate who comes and goes. What manager would ever agree to anything less?
Or has this has all been a huge ruse to flush Curbs out and they do have someone waiting in the wings?
Very hard to second guess who the board would be lining up, but feel they’ll definitely veer towards a foreign coach. Any ex-Hammer and the like will be far too parochial for them. However, can they afford a top foreigner?
who ever we get most of you will be moaning about them if they don’t get instant succsess and i can’t beleive anyone who has been supporting WHU for more than 5 minutes would even consider Bilic or Di canio. I call to all real long term supporters to stand up a be counted. We need a quality manager NOT A NAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
C.O,Y.I
i have been WHU addict since i was turning up at school in short trousers back in the very early sixties. it has always been a roller coster ride supporting a club who have provided us with brilliant flair sides that could destroy difficult opponents one Saturday then unexplicably slip up and not perform the next against teams we should easily have seen off .
In all that time , with a few notable cup exceptions and a couple of really good league finishes , we have not been able to become more consistant and really establish ourselves into getting regular access to european football of one sort or another. i thought that’s what Alan’s appointment was all about. It was, and still should be ” a work in progress “. Rome was not built in a day’
It kills me when we get relegated , with all the asset stripping that goes with that situation. We could now easily be at risk again i’m afraid, and yet we were close to getting together a half decent side. Accepting the poor way club boards up and down the country are behaving towards managers and supporters in general i often wish our own supporters could be a little more supportive and patient with what’s on the pitch in front of them . Once we had the reputation for being some of the most knowledgable footy fans in the land but now the image is getting rather tarnished with all the press led moronic rubbish we get around , let’s say Paul Ince, as just one example. Let’s face it , Micheal Carrick and Frank jnr have both suffered badly at the hands of a section of our own supporters’s whilst still at the club !
What would have been said about the late great Bobby Moore if Ron Greenwood had not blocked his dream move to Brian Clough’s Derby County in ’71/’72.
i still want to see the Cantwell , Musgrove and Allison dream for winning , stylish football , laid out in pepper pots and salt cellar’s on a table in some Barking cafe with steamed up windows , to come to fruition one day but is it do’able in todays modern game ? .
i just hope who ever we get in to manage the side will appreciate what the Hammers are really all about.
Gutted what has happened today but not suprised. I’m not a fan of AC, there were many, many times last season when I he made me want to scream with his tactics and bizarre substitutions but I thought he should be given time. West Ham used to be a special club, we didn’t sack our managers. Now we’re just like the rest. It deeply saddens me.
In terms of the new manager:
1. Redknapp
2. Bilic
He simply has to have a solid West Ham connection…
I think the board can feel grateful for the international break, AC may not have been popular, but the majority can see that the penny pinchers from Iceland have shafted some who I have no doubt is West Ham through and through… a game at Upton Park this Saturday with no new man in place could have turned ugly…
Believe it will be Mancini. He’s a friend of Nani, he’s out of work, and the owner has recuperated a lot of money. I think they already know who the next guy is, but they are not going to just come out and say it right now are they, regardless of their lining up candidates quotes.
Just heard on Talksport that Strachan is also in the running with Keane taking his job
E1 I do agree that we need a quality manager and I know Bilic has only proved himself on the International front but he is still my Fav. – for your info I have only supported WHU for 38 years!!!!
Kevin Keegan could be looking for a job soon, at least we’d play attacking football then !
unforgiven, as a supporter of 38 years I note and respect your comments I am now in my 41st season and stil feel that a more experienced manager would at the present time make more sense ie Terry Venables Harry Redknapp with a no 2 of less experirnce to be groomed to take over much the way it used to be in west ham and do you feel the need for adirector of football I think the money would be better spent on part time scouts around the world. We in english football are trying to mend somthing that really is not broke it’s change for change sake still what do we know.
Someone’s touting Joan Collins… we must be desperate to sell season tix ;o)
E1 – A Director of Football is a joke, a way of saying we don’t really trust the Manager!!!
‘West Ham dream ticket is Mancini as Manager, Di Canio as Assistant and Nani as Sporting Director – Hey its the Italian Job!!!!
or Donadoni instead of Mancini