West Ham Banter

19 Oct 2025 07:39:06
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17 Oct 2025 11:32:52
Hi guys hope you're all well, I've seen some reports that Nuno would be willing to sell Paqueta for £60m, personally I'd be happy if we could get that for him as he's not consistent enough for me, he has a couple of good games but then goes missing in others and tries too many tricks and loses possession, what's your thoughts if this is true?

17 Oct 2025 13:09:29
Hi Stevie, totally agree with you, if offered £60m I’d rip their arm off. Talented boy but too inconsistent as you said

17 Oct 2025 15:25:25
Stevie/ Dabber yeah with you both on that👍👍 as you both said the key word that sums him up and loves a roll over, very talented but spoils his talent for me with play acting and getting others booked, shame🤔
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17 Oct 2025 15:38:59
IMO it’s a difficult one. I think he is by far our most talented player and I think he always tries to progress the ball forward and always looking for defence splitting pass, which sadly doesn’t always come off.
But I reluctantly agree that it would be best to get that sort of money, as he isn’t consistent and has a habit of throwing himself on the floor when not touched. But obviously that money has to be spent well and there is no evidence that would happen. I know he hasn’t played many games but thus far I have seen nothing to suggest Fernandez justifies his £40m price tag. We can’t waste money like we allowed potter to do in January. Diouf is the only decent purchase thus far.

17 Oct 2025 17:08:55
Personally, I think selling Paqueta would be a major mistake. We should be building a team around our best players, not selling them.

17 Oct 2025 20:37:23
£60m for Pacqueta would be good money. We’ve had one good season out of him. He is a too many ‘ifs and buts’ sort of player. We are West Ham, not one of the big 6/7. In the ideal world, Brazil do well in the World Cup and his value sky rockets, but sadly we are in a NOW situation.

18 Oct 2025 11:26:57
I'm a bit ambiguous here, I like paquetta and he is easily the most talented player we have, but he isn't consistent, my biggest problem here is we won't replace him with anyone nearly as good and in a better team he will be a 100 million player like kudos

18 Oct 2025 13:12:23
Exactly Robbo. If you sell a good player, who do you get to replace him?

18 Oct 2025 16:13:21
WHILST I agree with you both, other factors, like our current position, may determine. This situation. As the season rolls on

18 Oct 2025 16:54:22
Exactly joyful. Under normal circumstances I would love to keep Paqueta but the situation we are in dictates we don’t have the luxury to wait for him to play with more consistency.
For sure we won’t get anyone as good but with the money we might get a half decent striker and CB and another MF

18 Oct 2025 18:33:24
I see where you are coming from but history tells us, any money made will be wasted, making us even weaker than we are, it's fantasy time if anyone thinks 60 million will be reinvested correctly as it won't be history tells us that, it will be mediocre players on massive wages again as no one else will want to join in January

18 Oct 2025 19:36:38
Yeah, it’s hard to see much sense prevailing in January, if times are desperate, we must all hope that’s not the case, desperation can see strange moves!

14 Oct 2025 07:39:06
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11 Oct 2025 11:51:06
I see that Rodriguez is refusing to leave WHU, even though he does not feature in Nuno's future plans. Mind you, at 31 and this stage in his career, and earning a reputed £75000 per week, who blames him? He never realistically was going to fit in. Another example of how badly run this club is.

11 Oct 2025 15:18:15
Tin, no doubt you noted that WH ITK claret and Hugh copied my post today regarding Rodriguez, that I posted YESTERDAY

This shows the strength of some of these WH ITKs hmmmm!

Rodriguez will leave, if WH settle his contract, I fancy they will , moving on
JWP, is on too much money, to settle with 20 months left on contract
Southampton, have offered a loan only, and will pay him, 40 k a week Jan to July Leaving WH with 70 k a week donation towards his wages

Depends on how Nuno sees it? Cornet out of the way until July 26

11 Oct 2025 16:16:34
Joyfull,
Actually, no, I didn’t see that. I got it from an article on West Ham World. On second reading though, it does mention Claret and Hugh. I didn’t see your post you mention either. During the international break, there’s not as much interest in club matters and I’m afraid I fall into that category. I can’t wait for these boring non-club breaks to be over so we can get back to normal. In my day, internationals were played mid-week with no interruption of the league programme. I suppose it’s a sign of the times!

11 Oct 2025 20:34:03
You are spot on regarding the internationals Tin. I am still interested in following England and other qualifiers but they should just be played midweek as champions league matches are. Back pre 90s that’s how it was done and most clubs had much smaller viable squads then.

09 Oct 2025 10:53:22
Whilst several of us on here have been singing the praises of both Potts and Marshall for some time, now is the time that they could become regular first team players. Nuno has already shown he is not averse to using young players. While midfielders Fernandes and Magassa try to settle, an opportunity opens for Potts to show his value, and Marshall could be the solution to the problems of Füllkrug misfiring and Wilson's inability to complete a full 90 mins. I think (and hope) we will see the emergence of both players as regular names on the Premiership squad team sheets. Certain encouragement for our current youth players.

09 Oct 2025 12:54:48
I think Potts is a very good player and deserves to start. I think magassa will be good if he can just learn how to tackle as he is like Alvarez on steroids when it comes to rash tackles. I hope he gives Fearon or Kante a chance .
Playing the sort of counter attacking football he likes to play speed is essential and I assume the youngsters have it and let’s not forget Guilherme. Although he hasn’t set the word alight with his talent so far hopefully he will come good 🤞

10 Oct 2025 08:53:46
On a lighter note, let’s get Marko Arnautović back, scored another 4 last night albeit against a powerful San Marino 😂 Loved him when we had him, big powerful goal scorer that stands no s—- from the opposition, still banging them in at 36!
Can Sky get rid of Supermouth, Superiich, Super thick head Gary Neville with his out of touch comments about the Union Flags flying in Manchester, saying it’s divisive, he goes home to his Gated Mansion and his no idea of Joe Public and pensioners that may be struggling! ⚒⚒⚒⚒

10 Oct 2025 11:24:21
I agree about Arnie when he played for us.
Before Sky get shot of Neville, they should reconsider their decision to keep the spitter, Jamie Carragher, after he showed his true colours in his car. If anyone deserves to be an outcast, it’s that awful bloke.

10 Oct 2025 12:03:37
Tinny, 100% agree about Carragher and the spitting incident, horrible scumbag, how he hangs in there I don’t know, he must have loads of shares in Sky 😂Nice to have seen other fans spot him and dragged him out of his Car and all spat over him😂😂😂👍👍👍⚒⚒⚒⚒

10 Oct 2025 12:45:53
Neville is out of touch completely with general society, as is Lineker, sooner both are off TV the better