Still playing in 1st season. Jonathan Spector has been excellent at right back. I Signed Freddy Adu at start and brought him on as sub for most games in first half and he is now starting due to 2 month injury to Etherington ( picked up during his first cap for England !!) He is looking quality.
After a drawn out process got taken over in November by a West Ham fan. 20m got put in bank but only 500k to spend.
Went through in Europe group stage and fluctuated between 4th and 10th in league, suffered from lots of draws.
In january signed Justin Hoyte for 500k plus 1m over 24 months. Wanted to sign Lee Molyneux from Everton for 300k so asked for more cash and the new board gave me 8m to spend which was nice !!
Bought A Vanden Borre for 2.9, I am now looking at my squads defence and could see that I should not have to sign defender for a number of years.
Have been rotating Harewood, Ashton and Tevez up front and all have got about 15 goals each. Although Ashton and Tevez were injured and Zamora not done too bad.
After West Ham's league win against Arsenal last week decided to play 4-5-1 against them in league cup semi-final 2nd leg after a lucky 1-1 draw with them at The Grove. I won 2-0 and then went on to beat Villa 2-1 in the final to win the hammers first trophy for 26 years.
I have found 4-5-1 away from home playing on the counter works a treat, having previously beat Liverpool 2-1 at Anfield, I have just beat Chelsea 3-1 at the bridge with a Tevez hatrick, which led to Mourinho rather worryingly praising him.
Just crashed out of Europe on Pens to Bayern Munich and I'll briefly mention my exit in the 5th rnd of the FA Cup, unforgivably being a West Ham fan myself, 2-0 to cough cough Millwall.
Just got the league to concentrate on now 7th with 8 games to go. Although reading this thread I am beginning to worry about hanging onto Tevez at the end of the season.
Usual 11:
Green
Spector
Vanden Borre (just replaced Gabbidon)
Ferdinand
Konchesky
Benyoun
Mascherano
Reo Coker
Etherington (Adu)
Tevez
Harewood or Ashton depending on form.