OK my earlier post about not being at all happy with the Mido signing got some stick. It is clear that plenty of people feel that he’s a good acquisition to the side.
I deliberately titled that post ‘A knee-jerk Mido reaction’ because it was literally that, a knee-jerk reaction. As I mentioned in a comment on the same post, the outburst stemmed from the constant feeling of despondancy I’m getting from West Ham these days. How many times do we leave Upton Park feeling we should have played better, played with more passion, or got a better result? It jsut so happened that the Mido signing was the trigger or aforementioned rant…
Anyway, it’s since become clear that he’s only on loan and only on 1k a week – so with that (and his goal scoring record on 10 in 64) in mind, “Mido, a good or bad signing”?
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in fact ahmed hossam (mido) is a kind of players that has different style in playing football and also has a strong personality so i think he is a great one that will help the team a lot
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Mido will score goals but will cause problems.
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ok we were short up front. but now we have cole,franco,mccarthy,ilan,sears and nouble.am i forgeting someone!!? yet our real problem at right back hasn’t been solved. maybe one less striker and and extra defender might have been better!!!!!??
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You can’t win with some folk … if one of them scores the goal that secures our premiership survival then fab … as for a right back … have a word with yourselves … we needed a left sided midfielder … someone to put the ball in from the flanks … a LB maybe but a RB with Specter, Faubert and Berahmi … maybe in the summer but not this window. We need to start scoring goals full stop
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Of course, this deal is good from all sides.
How the player played for Ajax, Marseille and Rome and was the first star for Tottenham for a considerable period, and contracted with him as such a great presentation material and be so bad?!
This foolish thinking, Enough is enough that he came to a new challenge with the same and this was evident in the material concessions, I think Mido is the star of the next West Ham and not McCarthy.
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i don’t get the point of signing him, even on a grand a week if that really is true. he’s a very poor striker in very poor form, getting benni and ilan in was great and will reep dividends i hope but i’d rather play nouble and sears up front than mido in any game so i really don’t understand the point at all. for me, he’d be my 6th choice striker and that would be assuming hines is out for the rest of the season, otherwise he’d be 7th.
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Mido may not be a player in the Zola mould but I think he may provide an option as an impact player, something different.
When HR got Hartson no one fancied him, a trouble maker ousted by Arsenal sold to Luton. But with Kitson he became a great sucess. Mido has similar footballing and temper traits so if he works out, great. Well worth the punt on loan to the end of the season.
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This blog isn’t very positive really is it mate aha. Like I said before if it was a one on one situation with a goalkeeper I’d much rather have Mido with a point to prove having a shot than Nouble learning his trade.
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tbh im happy with it, he always scores against us. plus theyids will hate it if he saves us
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he’s 26,
played champions league football,
played uefa cup football,
huge player, great touch, great strike, good head…
i think it’s worth a shout to buy him on a full time contract instead of loan deal, him and cole with mccarthy will be unstopable…FACT. i can’t see defenders out muscling them.
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give mido a chance,he is obviously going to play his heart out to try and get a permanent deal.
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£1000 a week. Not much is it..
We are only ever realy going to have two strikers on the pitch at any one time, when fit obviously Carlton, and either Benni, Franco or Ilan (who i hear is better than we are expecting).. Thats four top quality strikers, two of them being bench warmers, and i guarantee all of them are on over £25,000-30,000 a week.
Mido on the other hand probably costs less than the monthly lease on the company car, and yet he brings raw strength, aerial ability, a knack for scoring important goals (note: against us usually) and an attitude to rub defenders up the wrong way.
And if we were still in the ‘relegation scrap’ come the end of the season and he did score the goal that kept us up, even if it was his only goal of the season, he would be touted as the bargain of all time, and there would be a few on this blog eating their words.
No brainer for me.
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Couldn’t agree more. Mido can do the business when he’s got his sensible head on. He is still only 26 and wants this hence why he has taken such an amazing deal. It’s his last chance at a big league and skating over his past issues maybe he has finally got his act together and realises he won’t have many more options to play at the top. Having had many chances in the past he may actually screw the nut in and deliver the goods for us.
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How anyone could say it’s a bad signing when he is getting paid a grand (more then our youth players) is beyond me.
One goal which wins a game and improves our position is already money well spent.
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