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are times when the cheap option ends up being the most costly one. Although it is easy to understand why West Ham decided not to sack Slaven Bilic at the end of last season and instead chose to let his contract wind down before finding a replacement next summer, the harsh truth is that they should have acted by the time official confirmation arrived on Monday morning. The evidence had piled up long before Saturday��s humiliation against Liverpool. West Ham tried to ignore it but the consequence of waiting is that they find themselves now hoping that the man who took Sunderland into the Championship will offer them salvation.

They��re involved in seven legal cases, all carefully laid out before the AGM, accused among other things of tax fraud and ��an act of espionage��. A vote of no confidence was sought against the president, who has listened to chants to resign even on days of celebration, and although the motion failed that wasn��t the end of their troubles. There were eight different men deciding signings (two of whom have walked now), but they still couldn��t get them done �C despite, or perhaps because of, the �222m in their pocket. ��We��ll sign one or two in the next few days,�� the sporting director promised; four days later his PowerPoint presentation explained http://www.49ersshopnfljerseys.com/YOUTH+C+J+BEATHARD+JERSEY how, actually, he hadn��t signed any. Liverpool offered Coutinho �200m, he said; no we didn��t, Liverpool replied. ��The best thing about the window,�� Barcelona��s manager said, ��is that it��s closed now.��

Eleven weeks into the season, Barcelona are unbeaten. Played 11, won 10, drawn one, only Atl��tico Madrid have taken a point from them. In the Champions League they have won three, including victory over Juventus, and drawn one. In the league they have scored 30 �C only Valencia have as many �C and have conceded only four
David Moyes was ready and waiting when the call from David Sullivan came before the 4-1 defeat by Liverpool and that made the former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager an obvious pick to replace Bilic. Candidates who might have taken the job in the summer have become unattainable and West Ham did not fancy the prospect of engaging in the laborious and expensive process of prising a manager away from a rival club. Unlike Burnley��s Sean Dyche, there are no complications with Moyes �C other, that is, than his dire record since leaving Everton in 2013, which is why many supporters view him as an uninspired choice.
From West Ham��s perspective, hiring an experienced disciplinarian is sensible. They did not succumb to the Premier League��s culture of reactive impatience but were patient with Bilic Brendan Shanahan Jersey and sacked him, with a heavy heart, only after accepting that the decline under him was irreversible. Sullivan and David Gold, the co-owners, remembered that relegation was the punishment when they inexplicably allowed Avram Brendan Shanahan Jersey Grant virtually a full season in 2010-11. This time they have made their move after a start that has left West Ham in 18th place with the worst defensive record in the Premier League.
The other way of looking at it, though, is that West Ham let a torrid situation drag on while their rivals improved. Bilic was immensely popular at West Ham. His bosses liked him �C ��a delight to work with,�� according to one senior figure �C and were impressed with his candour when they interviewed him after Sam Allardyce��s departure in 2015, even though Rafa Ben��tez was their first choice before he joined Real Madrid. Yet Bilic��s team have been awful for 15 months. The defeat by Liverpool was the 10th time they have conceded at least three goals in a home game since moving to the unloved London Stadium.
The Croat��s first season was deceptive. Yes, West Ham enjoyed victories over Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur and finished seventh. But Dimitri Payet was inspired, Bilic inherited Allardyce��s solid defence and there was the buzz of the Upton Park farewell. There were times when West Ham rode their luck. They fought back from losing positions a lot, which was unsustainable, blew Champions League qualification by conceding 20 goals in their final 10 games and there was unease when Bilic tried to turn Michail Antonio into a right-back.
The rot set in as West Ham struggled to adapt to the London Stadium last year. Intensity in training dipped, Payet returned to Marseille and speculation over Bilic��s future mounted. Scrappy wins kept saving him but the football was lethargic and disorganised. Opponents loved playing against West Ham, who sounded out David Wagner at Huddersfield Town and Hull City��s Marco Silva in March. Bilic was convinced the end was coming. One of his assistants, Edin Terzic, mulled over taking a job in Germany. Yet West Ham, who finished 11th, decided to stick with Bilic after the raucous home win over Tottenham in May.
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That result papered over the cracks. After spending ��40m on Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hern��ndez, signing Pablo Zabaleta on a free and bringing in Joe Hart on loan in the summer, West Ham lost their opening three league games and Bilic��s relationship with Sullivan, who doubles as the club��s director of football, became increasingly strained after the failure to meet Sporting Lisbon��s ��37.5m asking price for William Carvalho.
Bilic limped on, scraping wins over Huddersfield and Swansea, but his football lacked identity and style and he was too reliant on Manuel Lanzini��s invention. There was too much focus on motivation and not enough on tactics. A player who left in the summer was perplexed by Bilic��s speeches about playing with passion. Where, he wondered, was the level of detail he had experienced at his former club? Another defensive player was baffled by the way he was left exposed by the team��s shape out of possession. Defenders regressed and there is a belief within the squad that they are unfit. There have been too many soft tissue injuries and Bilic was damned by statistics showing that West Ham have covered the least distance and made the fewest sprints in the Premier League this season. It was no surprise when they contrived to concede from their own corner against Liverpool.
There was not enough accountability. Allardyce would make sure mistakes would not be repeated by hammering the culprit in front of the rest of the dressing room but Bilic was afraid of confrontation. That timidity conspired against him when West Ham unprofessionally threw away a 2-0 lead against Crystal Palace, setting in motion the chain of events leading to Moyes. Relegation is unthinkable in the London Stadium.
Bilic had to go and the irony of his replacement is that it is three years since Inferior? As La Liga pauses for the last time before Christmas, the international break offering a moment to stop and look around, what Barcelona see makes happy viewing: they have a four-point lead over Valencia in second and eight over Madrid and Atl��tico in third Brendan Shanahan Jersey and fourth. It��s early and a word of warning from Mr Wolf wouldn��t go amiss �C after all, the last coach to start like this, with the exact same numbers after 11 weeks, was Tata Martino, who didn��t lose until December and ultimately didn��t win anything at all �C but it��s not insignificant: Madrid have never overcome a lead so large to win the title. And Barcelona are six points better off than they were at this stage last seasonIt wasn��t supposed to be this way and at times this season it has been hard to explain why it is this way. Perhaps fixtures play a part �C they��ve played six of the bottom nine �C but it��s not like Real Madrid, who��ve played seven of the bottom nine, have had it tough by comparison. They haven��t always impressed: Girona scored two own goals at Montilivi and Betis scored one at the Camp Nou; they had to come from behind to win 2-1 at the Coliseum, the winner coming moments after Getafe had a chance of their own; and after they beat Athletic at San Mam��s, Sergio Busquets said: ��We owe much of this to [goalkeeper Marc-Andr��] Ter Stegen.�� It��s true that at times you can��t help thinking that a fall is coming and also true that they haven��t always been very ��Barcelona��. And yet. And yet there they are, top of the table with 10 wins. Despite everything.
Calm in a crisis, Barcelona could hardly have hoped for a better man in charge than Ernesto Valverde. Hugely likeable, universally popular and abnormally ��normal��, a music, film and photography fan who likened his return to Athletic to The Godfather Part II and proved it by taking them to Europe four years in a row �C they��re down in 15th now without him �C he has a startling ability to block out the noise and cut through the whopper, to not be dragged down by it all. At Barcelona it helps that he is particularly popular with those most inclined to decry the club losing their religion, embraced by all sides, allowing shifts and tweaks that might draw opposition if imposed by others. But it helps more that it is all done so naturally.
��Valverde has made the Camp Nou fall in love with him,�� the president Josep Maria Bartomeu said. That may be an exaggeration but, a listener as well as a leader, it is true that he invariably connects. ��After two years I said I would jump off a bridge for Luis Enrique,�� Rakitic http://www.authenticbluejaysstore.com/Authentic-Bj-Upton-Jersey said. ��I��d jump off a ladder for Valverde, [as] it��s very early. It��s clear what he wants from us and we��re happy with him.�� It��s a start and a good one: neither Pep Guardiola nor Luis Enrique began their Camp Nou careers as well as this. Nor is it just the stats; the hope is that slowly, something is building. Something a little differentAllardyce was talking about how West Ham needed to emulate the reliability of Moyes��s Everton. But delaying an awkward decision means that Moyes, who will need to strengthen a talented http://www.ramsnflofficialonline.com/Authentic-Cory-Littleton-Jersey but unbalanced squad in January, is set to arrive on an initial six-month contract, a short-term fix for a club in urgent need of clearer direction

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