All I'm saying is all things being equal I much prefer as Snodgrass to Elmo. If I was to buy one or other it would have been Snodgrass every day of the week. But I agree, given the squad it is an odd use of the budget.
It's the same tactic Harry used for Tottenham. Just keep buying midfielders!
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?
Quote from: olaftab on August 24, 2017, 08:28:00 PMI heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.
Quote from: brontebilly on August 25, 2017, 10:30:56 AMQuote from: olaftab on August 24, 2017, 08:28:00 PMI heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.I disagree. Whether the money could have been better spent elsewhere in the squad is a moot point, but I think Snodgrass will be one of the best players in the Championship this year and if so it would be difficult to call that a poor signing, particularly given its only a loan.
Quote from: chrisw1 on August 25, 2017, 10:41:16 AMQuote from: brontebilly on August 25, 2017, 10:30:56 AMQuote from: olaftab on August 24, 2017, 08:28:00 PMI heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.I disagree. Whether the money could have been better spent elsewhere in the squad is a moot point, but I think Snodgrass will be one of the best players in the Championship this year and if so it would be difficult to call that a poor signing, particularly given its only a loan.I'm not saying you're wrong, in truth no one knows, but that's exactly the sort of response I got last summer when I said Fat Ross was a poor signing, sometimes a signing doesn't feel right.On topic I'm totally on the fence with Snodgrass, he's a decent player but not at all what we need and I'd rather we were looking to add someone left sided with pace if we are going to sign an attacking player. I'd actually much prefer that we spend any money we have on a leftback because we've got absolutely no cover for Taylor right now, other than playing someone out of position. We've had enough "season ended in September" injuries in the last decade that a massive gap like that concerns me.