Is Bilic Trying To Get Fired At West Ham?
West Ham are having issues at the top of the club. Are the Chairmen on a collision course with Slaven Bilic?
With his recent comments in the media it seems that Slaven Bilic has tired of his role in East London and is looking for an exit and a pay day at the same time with an early termination. West Ham management and chairmen seem to be on a collision course.
One can easily understand what it is about the West Ham job that upsets Bilic. He has two owners neither of whom have a particularly stellar record in football’s upper management. They call way too many of the shots within his club and who don’t let him do his job to the best of his ability.
That said when working for a football club the best move is solidarity and it appears that with his recent comments to the media about the two David’s Slaven Bilic must surely be looking for a way out of West Ham football club.
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Simply put regardless of how hard done by Bilic feels, and he does have every right to do so, bad mouthing and making fun of ownership is not a good move in terms of career longevity. He has realised that he’ll never be fully in control and isn’t happy about it. The issue is it’s not like Florentino Perez at Real Madrid or Silvio Berlusconi in the 90’s with Milan his powerful chairmen are not football people. They aren’t making moves that make the team better.
This week the David & David combination has embarrassed the club pretty thoroughly. The issue is as they are owners it is not them who will be leaving. Obviously in a perfect world they could be fired and Bilic could stay, but that’s impossible. As such, it looks like Bilic is performing his own footballing version of hara-kiri.
He admitted in an interview with the Guardian that “Slaven Bilic has risked angering his employer after saying David Sullivan “likes to talk” and revealing he thought the Sporting Lisbon president’s description of West Ham United’s owners as “the Dildo Brothers” was funny”
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For the fans it is good to see that the manager has a personality and isn’t controlled completely. There is also a lot in there that the fans agree with. But with Carvalho not signed and a small squad it doesn’t look like a strong relationship at the top. How long can a rocky relationship last, unless results take a turn for the best?