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Sam thoughts on Goals on Sunday

Speaking on Goals on Sunday, Hammers manager Sam Allardyce gave his thoughts on finishing top six this season and the merry go round of sacking managers.

“I think that everyone knows that the spending power generally is the top four of the Premier League, it’s is very difficult to break into the top four if you haven’t got the same spending power as them, it’s difficult, lots of us have lived on the fringes in the past, I did the same at Bolton for the last two or three years, to try and get there was something that would of been beyond the club’s or the owners will at the time for the spending power you need to perhaps fund for it. This season it’s about enjoying the position we’ve in and seeing at the end of January whether we reset our own goals to see if we can finish in the top six, Is it possible? If we are going to finish in the top six then we are going to have to recalculate our lads presentation to show them what they are going have to do between now and the end of the season to finish [in the top six]. At this moment in time if we carry on the way we are we are predicted a top four finish but whether we will or whether we won’t is another matter. I think everyone has understand that we are well into the second year of financial fair play or financial restrictions so we are all in a much more difficult position when every window comes on the limit of spending power, not just transfer fees but wages today and that is across the board now. When it comes to January it’s not that ask the owners to go and find this amount of money or that amount of money if they wanted to, if they wanted to they could perhaps do it but at the end of the season they may end up with a pretty hefty fine, we have got those restrictions I would say one top player if he became available would be something we would pursue but maybe somebody would have to leave to fund or help fund that player. I think there is no point in bringing in anybody less than a top player because want we have now is top drawer at the minute. We have got 22 players that are all fighting for places in the team”

Sam went on to speak about the problem of sacking managers because the club owners and fans want instant overnight success

“You can’t keep asking football clubs and fans can’t keep asking football clubs to be instantly successful over night and keep on signing 7-8-9 players every year and that seems to be the norm now, we’ve done well by settling them in, how many managers have lost their job by doing that, Paolo Di Canio at Sunderland, he bought 11 in and none of that gelled, Tottenham, they didn’t gel, Liverpool, they haven’t gelled! Everyone is going What’s going on? So many new players into a new football club is a mammoth task to get the best out of them instantly but everyone expects that and that is why the impatience stops growth at football clubs, stops development and stops managers ultimately doing a good job for the football club, because of too many sackings, not this year in the Premier League but everywhere else in the Championship, in league 1 they are getting fired left, right and centre. There is such a lack of stability there which stops sustainable success”

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