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The situation between Sam Allardyce and West Ham’s owners is not going to end well.
This was his response to questions posed after the club’s defeat to Sydney in their final game in Australasia.
“We are working on our new style.
We have to be more open and expansive. That’s what is demanded now so we are working on that side of it. We just lost the defensive resilience that we had last season. Today we got caught on the break twice in the first half.
We’re trying to play and open teams up so we left too many spaces.”
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This is the kind of obnoxiousness that is typical of Allardyce and it’s really him at his excuse-mongering best.
It is pre-season, losses are quickly forgotten, and it would have been very easy for him to rattle off some platitudes about fitness or conditioning, and it would have been even easier for him not to try use this as an opportunity to take shots at his employers.
West Ham’s body of work last season was not great, and the style implemented by Allardyce evidently created some distance between the team and the supporters. They were – at times – hopelessly negative and in this age of the game it is not unreasonable for owners to ask for something more aesthetically pleasing.
Allardyce has been encouraged to be slightly more offensive and he’s been given new coaching resources and a lot of money to help him make that transition. It’s not as if David Gold and David Sullivan are forcing him into using a five-man, Ossie Ardiles-style attacking structure that will doom them, they are simply urging him to adapt to the club’s changing status in the Premier League.
He needs to drop the sulking teenager act and show that he is capable of implementing more than one style of football. At the moment, he just sounds like a child who has been told that he can’t go outside until he’s tidied his room.
There are a lot of Allardyce apologists in the media and there will be a whole queue of writers ready to defend him if West Ham start the season badly, but his stubborness is becoming an issue and – just as with the Ravel Morrison situation – it’s creating an acrimony that he’s not really in a strong enough position to deal with.
The situation between Sam Allardyce and West Ham’s owners is not going to end well.
This was his response to questions posed after the club’s defeat to Sydney in their final game in Australasia.
“We are working on our new style.
We have to be more open and expansive. That’s what is demanded now so we are working on that side of it. We just lost the defensive resilience that we had last season. Today we got caught on the break twice in the first half.
We’re trying to play and open teams up so we left too many spaces.”
([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.])
This is the kind of obnoxiousness that is typical of Allardyce and it’s really him at his excuse-mongering best.
It is pre-season, losses are quickly forgotten, and it would have been very easy for him to rattle off some platitudes about fitness or conditioning, and it would have been even easier for him not to try use this as an opportunity to take shots at his employers.
West Ham’s body of work last season was not great, and the style implemented by Allardyce evidently created some distance between the team and the supporters. They were – at times – hopelessly negative and in this age of the game it is not unreasonable for owners to ask for something more aesthetically pleasing.
Allardyce has been encouraged to be slightly more offensive and he’s been given new coaching resources and a lot of money to help him make that transition. It’s not as if David Gold and David Sullivan are forcing him into using a five-man, Ossie Ardiles-style attacking structure that will doom them, they are simply urging him to adapt to the club’s changing status in the Premier League.
He needs to drop the sulking teenager act and show that he is capable of implementing more than one style of football. At the moment, he just sounds like a child who has been told that he can’t go outside until he’s tidied his room.
There are a lot of Allardyce apologists in the media and there will be a whole queue of writers ready to defend him if West Ham start the season badly, but his stubborness is becoming an issue and – just as with the Ravel Morrison situation – it’s creating an acrimony that he’s not really in a strong enough position to deal with.
Last edited by alfiehammer on Sun 27 Jul 2014, 8:25 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : added text)
