Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Yeah sorry mistook the year - was abroad for most of that season so don't know it as well as others.
Point about wages is still fair, wages went up as we targetted established players V younger ones - so the money available for transfers was reduced.
Well we struggled to cope with the glamour ties of the CL followed by the likes of Wigan away and Stoke at home. But it wasn't a deliberate attempt to go for one competition more than the other as Jordinho seems to be suggesting. And as I mentioned previously, we also had to cope with Emirates Marketing Project who went and signed Silva, Dzeko, Tevez, Kolarov and Yaya Toure in order to ensure they didn't finish behind us again. Finishing in the top 4 agains was always going to be even more difficult than it was the previous season. We dominated possession and created plenty of chances in the games he cites above we just couldn't score, it's not like we couldn't be arsed cos it's "only West Ham".
EDIT: They signed Tevez the year before, but they also signed Balotelli, Boateng and James Milner.
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