West Ham - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[Billyni]

Don't be getting excited about him playing gelhart, dramah etc.
He will play Costa and Roberts first.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Hmmmn not saying he was brilliant WTF but you can see he is a quality player and will only get better for us.

The biggest issue is the overall quality of the squad. If you read some of the sport meets economic/statistical analysis like soccernomics it is clear from the data that they have crunched that having one poor player etc will dramatically affect the performance of the team - we have a few weak links when we are not fully fit or have a few who are massively inconsistent.

We probably have 6 or 7 prem good quality players

Phillips Koch Meslier Rapha Llorente Rodrigo and Bambi (bambi is arguable)

Below that there are few who can perform to that level but not all the time

Dallas Klich Ayling Harrison and maybe Cooper

Beyond that either players who are not good enough or too inconsistent

I have left most of the kids out of it as we either haven’t seen them play at this level or they need time but Struijk looks like he will go into the first category.

Great as this season has been realistically to get to a decent 1st team squad of 18 or so players will take another 2 to 3 years through buying and developing and growing youngsters:

[ozleeds]

Don't be getting excited about him playing gelhart, dramah etc.
He will play Costa and Roberts first.

Exactly right Billy we are more likely to see Berardi rather than them.