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madeeasy 8:35 Tue Mar 22
David Sullivan interview in the Daily Mail

Hate the paper but it is a good interview.

When did I miss that we had already made the Lanazini deal permanent?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3503268/As-race-Champions-League-slots-hots-Sportsmail-asks-West-Ham-owner-David-Sullivan-Hammers-nail-fourth-place.html

caerphilly tom 8:54 Tue Mar 22
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I've just spotted that too, haven't seen it anywhere else yet but that's terrific news. Onwards and upwards!

Sxboy_66 9:06 Tue Mar 22
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The deal for Lanzini has been in place for months. The player and his parent club have already signed it. Because of his injuries we decided to wait as long as possible before we signed it to complete the deal to make sure he'd fully recovered. His performance vs Chelea was enough to confirm he had.



Love that he got a few mentions of Fall of the Krays in the article.

madeeasy 9:08 Tue Mar 22
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SX

I knew that bit, but I didn't know that we had finally taken up the option and completed it. I thought the club would have made a bigger thing out of it and announced it.

One McAvennieeeeee 9:22 Tue Mar 22
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Nice interview that. Good to see him happy.

Bit shitty the way he mentioned the Watford and Newcastle defeats though. You can't win every game!

Pop Robson 9:25 Tue Mar 22
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Seems to much too soon, build slowly increase the capacity if really needed.

Then again when the numbers drop off they can reduce and cover the seats again

TWe 9:30 Tue Mar 22
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Has anyone actually watched Fall of the Krays?!

Private Dancer 9:36 Tue Mar 22
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OM - That caught my eye too. Two ways of looking at it i suppose, one is he makes him look a bit greedy and un-realistic, or he is right to be pissed at 2 pathetic performances. If we had to lost at Arsenal and man City I highly doubt he would have mentioned it.

Sven Roeder 9:42 Tue Mar 22
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In a season where we have won at Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City and would have won at Chelsea and Man Utd (FA Cup) but for incompetent refereeing I think most fans would accept that teams have SOME off days.
Bit petty to dwell on that.
Looks like Tomkins and Collins will be fit after the international break so with a bit of luck we have a massive chance to finish strongly.
Cant wait for our next game.

Steve P 9:58 Tue Mar 22
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Having a realistic bench with players who could quite easily be starting has paid off in droves this season.

I'm impressed that we haven't run out of steam so far, as well.

Usually at this stage of the season, most of us can't wait for it to be over.

One McAvennieeeeee 12:17 Tue Mar 22
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Steve P 9:58 Tue Mar 22
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Alex V 12:49 Tue Mar 22
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He really makes the signing of Payet sound like a fluke. An agent turned up with the name so he checked his number of assists?

One McAvennieeeeee 12:51 Tue Mar 22
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Would it really matter if it was?

Josh 12:58 Tue Mar 22
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I didn't know much about him before he signed on the basis I don't play FIFA.

Remember him in a Champions League game against Arsenal couple seasons back. Showed glimpses. Thats all I ever saw.




What a bloody signing!

The Stoat 1:02 Tue Mar 22
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TWe 9:30 Tue Mar 22

Yes it's shit

Far Cough 1:03 Tue Mar 22
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This is how the Payet signing came about:

Mark McKay, the agent, came to me and I checked his stats. Payet: best assists in France, third best in Europe.

We were talking to the then Marseille manager Marcelo Bielsa about coming to West Ham and we said: ‘Who is the one player you would bring?’ He said Payet.

Later I said to Slaven: ‘What do you think of Payet?’ And he said: ‘I’d love him — not only will he achieve great things, but he will make the other players better. They will get passes they wouldn’t normally get and score goals they wouldn’t normally score.’

Alex V 1:03 Tue Mar 22
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>>> Would it really matter if it was?

Hard to answer that. I'm interested in whether the last couple of seasons were a product of good luck or a sign of genuine progress.

I'd be concerned when other clubs have analytics departments and scores of employees to understand players and the market, if we have Sullivan checking the assists numbers on whoscored.com as an equivalent.

One McAvennieeeeee 1:06 Tue Mar 22
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When will you know whether you regard it as progress or pure luck? I'm happy to hold off until then? Although you're taking a comment in isolation, and making up a back story to it, as opposed to looking at all of our recent signings over the last season or so.

I would say there's genuine progress on and off the field there.

whufcroe 1:07 Tue Mar 22
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"I'm interested in whether the last couple of seasons were a product of good luck or a sign of genuine progress."

All transfers have an element of luck in whether they are successful or not.

As you're never going to be able to prove either way you post is pointless

Far Cough 1:08 Tue Mar 22
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It's hardly good luck is it, I mean we employed Henry who already had a good track record at Everton, so we are now reaping the rewards of that coup

Alex V 1:09 Tue Mar 22
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Agreed we'll never know the intimate details of how signings come about. And all signings are somewhat of a gamble. In the meantime I think it's fair enough to ponder what is said on the subject.

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