How light is our bench?  Wilshire, Fornals, Ajeti, Balbuena none of them fill me with confidence.
First time I saw Fornals play I had this dreaded pit in my guts.  Nabil fekir a similar player with a similar price tag who was strongly linked with Liverpool ends up at Betis(who don't even have European football) and we get Fornals.  Gutted.
Our best players Anderson and lanzini aren't giving 100% IMO.  I can't work out lanzini.  Is it because he's got his improved contract? Or maybe Pellegrini tactics aren't getting the best out of him.

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West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski on Saturday underwent surgery on his hip injury as his rehabilitation continues.

Fabianski pulled up after taking a goal kick during the 2-2 draw at Bournemouth at the end of September and, Standard Sport understands, has been ruled out for three months.

Hammers co-owner David Gold tweeted on Saturday morning: "Just to update you all, the surgery on Lukasz Fabianski’s hip went as planned this morning in London.

"He will hopefully be discharged later today. Speedy recovery Lukasz."

Veteran Spanish back-up Roberto, who arrived during the summer, is Fabianski's stand-in until 2020 and made his Premier League debut in the 2-1 home loss to Crystal Palace before the international break.

Goalie just not Premier league is he? .... I'm a backer for top 10 though, price should be nice and ripe about now...

I’m absolutely amazed that there are still people out there that believe that this is potentially a top 6 side..
In my opinion they’re just too soft and performances like the one today occur just FAR to often..

Toenails not up too it

Fattie - please be re-assured that my comment about “people out there” wasn’t a reference to your good self or anyone else on this forum.
It was in relation to a lot of comments I’ve heard from a number of pundits, and comments that I’ve seen on social media over the past few months..

Piss poor again
Getting fed up with saying it
Each and every week
We should be beating teams like Sheffield Utd at home

Way the world is mangers come and go
He ain’t got long Imo
Terrible for money he’s had

We will have dog fight
If something doesn’t change

Where 0-2 down at home

Should be 0-4

Tells you Antonio and fab are massive at westham
Fallen apart with out them

How long do you let it go on for
He’s got two games imo turn it around or he’s toast

Never mind give Pellegrini another 200 million to fritter away!
I have never seen such a shocking display as in that first half perhaps we could ask Moyes to come back and rescue us again. Absolutely clueless defending.

Injera.....you may remember that I was very unhappy that Moyes was not backed by the fans or the board after doing an excellent job  by getting from the relegation places to mid-table and not being given the money to further improve the side. We need to understand that we will never win anything without a decent defence and apart from the FA Cup that's been the case since I first ever watched West Ham.

I liked both Moyes and Sam but most West Ham fans felt the opposite.
Probably because I loathe possession football and prefer a more direct style which in my viewed was proved when Leicester won the premiership by 10 points and had the 2nd worst possession in the league. It can be done with the amount of money Pellegrini has had at his disposal but people need to be patient and get behind the right sort of manager. This "West Ham Way" thinking needs to be got rid of as it has amounted to nothing in all the years I have supported the club. I simply make the point that in the 60s with all those great players we never finished higher than 8th because Greenwood was hopeless when it came to defence as Bobby Moore was later to say in his book.

Pellegrini got to go imo
Fed up with dinosaurs fat boring sam moyes was out dated
Pelle too

Want some young forward thinking manger
**** it
Give cowleys a chance
Go down if don’t change let’s have fresh apoach

Fattie, You're living in dreamland again.

Jacob Steinberg from The Guardian.


West Ham director of football Mario Husillos’s future in doubt amid slump
• Club unhappy with Argentinian’s summer transfer work
• Husillos is a close ally of manager Manuel Pellegrini

West Ham’s alarm at their recent slump has raised doubts over the future of Mario Husillos, the club’s director of football and one of Manuel Pellegrini’s closest allies.

Pellegrini is in no danger of being sacked, with West Ham determined to back their manager despite sliding into 13th after picking up two points from their past five games, but questions are being asked about Husillos’s role. There is unhappiness with the Argentinian’s work in the transfer market last summer and he faces a fight to retain ultimate responsibility for identifying signings in January. After that, the club may look to review Husillos’s position.

West Ham, who performed shambolically during the 3-2 home defeat by Newcastle last Saturday, broke their transfer record when they signed Sébastien Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt and they expect the £45m striker to come good despite struggling in front of goal recently. Yet eyebrows have been raised at two of Husillos’s picks. Pablo Fornals, a £24m signing from Villarreal, is yet to make an impact and the Spanish goalkeeper Roberto Jiménez has failed to impress while deputising for Lukasz Fabianski, who could be out until the new year with a hip injury.

Fornals is adjusting to the pace of English football but it is debatable whether West Ham, who visit Burnley on Saturday, needed to sign the 23-year-old Spaniard. Pellegrini wanted a commanding central midfielder at the start of the summer and West Ham pushed hard to sign André Gomes from Barcelona. Gomes joined Everton instead.

The messaging changed after West Ham missed out on the Portugal midfielder. They switched the emphasis to attack and pushed through the signing of Fornals, a creative midfielder, even though they had Felipe Anderson, Manuel Lanzini, Robert Snodgrass and Andriy Yarmolenko in those positions.

Fornals has started four league games and a lack of robustness in central midfield has remained an issue. West Ham did not replace Pedro Obiang or Edimilson Fernandes after selling them to Sassuolo and Mainz respectively and there is little depth behind Declan Rice and Mark Noble. Carlos Sánchez, the 33-year-old Colombian midfielder, has no future at the club and Jack Wilshere, who has 18 months left on a contract worth close to £100,000 a week, is rarely fit.

It has not helped that Fabianski has been out since going off injured against Bournemouth on 28 September. Fabianski’s previous No 2, Adrián, joined Liverpool on a free last summer and Roberto has been a disaster.

The 33-year-old did not play a league game for Espanyol last season but he played 34 times when Málaga were relegated from La Liga in 2018. Husillos left Málaga at the end of that season and joined West Ham on Pellegrini’s recommendation. The London Stadium club’s board had wanted to make Eduardo Macià their director of football but went with their new manager’s choice instead.

Husillos has struggled to convince West Ham of his worth and the signing of Roberto has heightened doubts over his judgment. There were misgivings about Roberto when West Ham lost 4-0 to Oxford United in the Carabao Cup in September and he has performed poorly since stepping in for Fabianski, making costly errors in defeats by Everton and Newcastle.

The slump has hit West Ham’s hopes of breaking into the top six but they have faith in Pellegrini, whose £7m-a-year contract runs out in the summer of 2021. At the same time there are concerns over the former Manchester City manager’s tactics and team selections. Pablo Zabaleta, the 34-year-old right-back, was repeatedly exposed against Newcastle and there is irritation at the failure to get the best out of Haller, who has scored once in his past eight games.

West Ham have a tough run after the international break, with home games against Arsenal and Tottenham and trips to Chelsea and Wolves set to test their faith in Pellegrini. They will make decisions next month on whether they need to spend in January.

Uncertainty over Conor Coventry’s future poses another problem for West Ham. The 19-year-old midfielder’s contract runs out at the end of the season and he is unhappy with the terms on offer. The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international is attracting interest from several clubs and could leave in January.

As for Conor Coventry the lad wants 5k a week so I'm led to believe.   Not unreasonable for a teenager knocking on the 1st team.  The owners are citing the example of Reece Oxford as to why they are reluctant to give him this.  Are you facing kidding me?  Oxford was on 20k a week at 17 so the cases aren't similar at all IMO.

Var saved us

Got watch the 3rd go in
Keeper is absolute clown
Sums westham up

Short odds being offered that the word “unacceptable” is used in Pellegrini’s post match interview..