It’s been an interesting start to the season so far because you can see the promise is there but it’s always difficult to blend new players in. In all honesty, I’ve not seen too much difference between West Ham last season and this season, it’s similar sort of play. We’ve just got different personnel.
But I think the Palace victory was crucial when you looked at the two home games we had, which were both tough on paper. At least with the Man City one, it seemed like a good defeat if that makes sense?
Normally we’re up against it and don’t get chances but we had a good go at it in the second half and the fact we scored, it makes it look more promising as opposed to losing three or four nil. The Villa game could’ve gone either way, but our season won’t be judged on our games against City and Villa but on the Palace and Fulham games.
Let’s see how we get on this month. That’ll give us a better indication of how we might do this season. I always think we’re currently around 7th to 10th but if we win all our games this month, I think we’ll be in for a good season, even possibly creeping into the top six.
But if we lose all our games this month, then we’ll be looking over our shoulders a bit. It was a very busy summer for us with lots of players coming in and leaving.
At one stage, it felt like if you didn’t look at the news for a day or so, the next time you looked, we’d have signed another two players. It was incredible, and we’ve not spent a huge amount on these players. The club has certainly put their money where their mouth is this summer.
I think Summerville will help us as the season progresses. Although he’s got to try to replace Bowen or Kudus, unless Bowen goes up top and then he gets a spot on the wing. I haven’t seen enough of Rodriguez but he looks a good buy and Kilman looks decent too.
Wan-Bissaka is also a good buy. He looks decent, and we’ve now got two decent right backs. It was, however, brave to let Ward Prowse and a couple of the others go. The manager will live and die by those decisions.
But that’s part of the management side of things. If you back yourself and back the players you’re going to get in, then you’ve got to get the results otherwise you know what’s going to happen. When you look at our squad now, it does look like we have got better options than last season.
I’m still not convinced we’ve resolved our striker issue as Fullkrug and Antonio are two different types of players. The German international isn’t as athletic as Antonio but he may possess more quality on the ball.
We’ll have to adjust accordingly depending on who is playing. I can’t see them both playing together. But like all clubs, you’re governed by injuries. If we don’t get too many, then we have a decent squad but it might only take a couple of key areas and then maybe we may find we’re a bit short.
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