Sunday, June 29

Should West Ham have let Pablo Armero go?

Pablo Armero had another good game for Colombia against a toothless Uruguay last night. He was up and down the left flank all evening and chipped in a lovely dangling cross for James Rodriguez's second goal. Five loan games at West Ham, several as sub, wasn't really enough of an opportunity to judge him. Armero certainly looks good going forward, although a virtual wing back might not have suited West Ham. But as the club needs a new left back you still wonder if there might be any chance of a permanent signing from Udinese. Armero is also the Colombia choreographer, so he could take our goal celebrations to Latin American levels of sophistication, all combined with Kevin Nolan's clucking. And maybe he could bring that James with him as well…

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just goes to show that BFS has no idea what to do with a player who can actually play with the ball on the floor. Lets hope the new signing next season will be allowed to play football and not Hoofball

Anonymous said...

Put simply NO! He looks great going forward in World Cup as he did for us, but he can't defend!
In the games he played for us he was constantly out of position, looked light weight, easily knocked of the ball and who can forget the totally senseless penalty he gave away against palace?!
IMO it's not nothing to do with this " hoofball" rubbish! And come people should look beyond their dislikes.
So for me, it's a NO!

Maureen said...

Too good a player to discard so easily. I agree he's not the best defender but that want our problem last year it was scoring goals and he can certainly help with that. But no, iv forget, preserve the point is the way to go

Pete May said...

Yes, he gave away a silly penalty against Palace, but Armero surely needed time to adjust to the PL. I'd agree with Maureen that he could have added soothing going forward even if defensively not the best. Will be interesting to see how he does in the next round...