Monday, July 2
Hammers get back McCartney
Good news that West Ham have signed George McCartney on a two-year permanent deal for an undisclosed fee. McCartney was one of our most consistent players last season. He's 31 and maybe lost a little speed, but he proved what a good player he is under Curbishley and should have a couple more seasons left at the top level. Roy Keane paid £6 million for him a few years ago as part of his helter skelter transfer policy at Sunderland and we've signed him back for a lot less after his career went down a lot of long and winding roads, such as a loan spell at Leeds. The other bonus is that McCartney supplies this blog with an unending supply of bad Beatles puns...
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It has been a long and winding road that has led him to our door, but he should do a solid job. he's ln Jordi Alba though, unfortunately.
In other news, Tomkins is in the GB Olympic squad, which I think is well deserved, although it will disrupt our pre-season preparation. As he is 50% of our centre backs, we may have to experiment with a Spain-style "false number 5" tactic.
PS - that was me, by the way...
Also - you said on a previous blog that Sears was too lightweight for the Prem, but surely Iniesta, Messi etc have shown that being diminutive is not a problem, as long as you are talented? Gary breen was big enough, but he was still rubbish.
Well, yes I guess Freddie might be alright if he had the skill of Iniesta as well! Meanwhile I fear Big Sam might be very impressed with this idea of playing no forwards...
I hadn't thought of that. Of course, Big Sam might want to tweak the system, and instead of playing four defenders and six midfielders, go for six centre backs, two full backs and two holding midfielders....
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