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Wham1966
1:52 Sat May 19
Re: Pellegrini _ The South American John Lyall
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From La Tercera... a description of what West Ham is about through South America eyes.
Manuel Pellegrini enlists his return to England. The Chilean coach runs with advantage to take over West Ham United and, therefore, will land tomorrow in London to negotiate his return to the Premier League. He is the favorite of the leadership of the Hammers, who sees him with the skills to boost the qualitative leap of the club. The title he won with Manchester City in the 2013-2014 season is his main letter of introduction and his current contract in China should not be an obstacle.
West Ham is synonymous with tradition in English football. Founded in 1895, it has historically been the representative picture of the working class. His livelihood, moreover, is far from triumphs. In fact, the club has just three FA Cup titles, one Community Shield, one European Cup Winners Cup and one Intertoto Cup. Six crowns in 122 years. Meager harvest that has not hit its popularity.
After a six-month stint of David Moyes, who took over the technical direction solely to avoid relegation in the last year, the board wants more. His idea is that the team can receive an injection of category to, thus, fight at least for a place in international tournaments.
In that context, Pellegrini falls perfect. During the current campaign, West Ham had already invested to form a campus that, under the technical direction of the Engineer, could be strengthened.
The cost of the current template is US $ 257 million (10th most expensive in the league) and has, a priori, good values, such as the Argentinean Manuel Lanzini, the Portuguese Joao Mario and the Austrian Marko Arnautovic, who arrived from the Stoke City in exchange for US $ 33 million, being the most expensive signing in the history of the team.
When Pellegrini was dismissed from the City, before the end of the 2015-16 season, he explained in an interview with The Guardian his way of playing, which, extrapolating it to the reality of the current West Ham, invites the illusion.
"I like that my teams are speed. That we can constantly generate the one against one and that the counterattacks are as fast as possible. I need creative players, "said the coach.
Under that prism, in his eventual new house he has material to spare. Two centers that have not yet reached 30, already tested in the category, such as the Italian Ogbonna and the English Cresswell. A fast and young side on the left, like the Congolese Masuaku and one experienced by the right hand, like the Argentine Zabaleta.
In the middle he has a good assured game. The Senegalese Kouyaté, the Spanish Obiang and the English Noble and Michael Antonio, in addition to the named Lanzini and Joao Mario (should define its continuity) could be favored with the former Real Madrid in banking. "I like players who are technically gifted and have great physical will. I like that my teams recover the ball as close as possible to the rival area and, when we have the ball, get to play, "explained the strategist on his own proposal.
In the attack, he has Arnautovic, in addition to the Mexican Javier Hernández and the English Andy Carroll.
Expectations are high, since it also has several young people who could further enhance their idea and with an average of US $ 40 million to invest in new reinforcements and thus strengthen the extremes, which emerges as the weakest area.
The whole identity of the team is based on the passion of 60 thousand fans who fill the Olympic stadium in London every week, where they have been operating for two seasons, after leaving Upton Park, their home for 115 years, since 1904 .
The fans are already excited about a 64-year-old Chilean. They want to continue singing the legendary I'm forever blowing bubbles, a song that speaks of love to all test and resistance to adversity. "Beautiful bubbles in the air. They fly so high that they almost touch the sky. Then, like my dreams, they vanish and die, "says the song. Will Pellegrini get into the bubble and prevent them from bursting?
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Alan
2:02 Sat May 19
Re: Pellegrini _ The South American John Lyall
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Sport Witness
From Chile: West Ham ‘waiting’, $40m for Pellegrini to spend, Hammers’ culture explained
The Chilean press have been reporting for a while now that Manuel Pellegrini to West Ham is a strong possibility.
Over the past few days they’ve ramped that up, and yesterday morning reported the former Manchester City manager would be holding talks on Sunday and it’s ‘highly probable’ he’ll sign a contract.
Saturday’s edition of Chilean newspaper La Tercera covers the same thing. West Ham are now ‘waiting’ for Pellegrini to arrive, and as long as everything goes smoothly it’s expected he’ll be the club’s new manager.
It’s stated West Ham will have ‘around $40m to invest’, although that could be speculation.
This is all interesting for Chilean football fans, and La Tercera explain what’s special about the Hammers, and it’s nice for fans of the club to see how they’re perceived.
West Ham are dubbed ‘the workers’ team of England’: ‘West Ham is synonymous with tradition in English football. Founded in 1895, it has historically been the representative picture of the working class.’
La Tercera then have to tell the readers there’s not been much success recently, but add it hasn’t harmed the popularity of the club.
The ‘whole identity’ of West Ham is said to be based on the club’s supporters, and I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles is explained to Chileans: ‘a song that speaks of love forever tested and resistance to adversity’
La Tercera hope Pellegrini is the man to stop the West Ham bubble from continually bursting.
Nice isn’t it?
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