Simon Thomas
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He always wanted to play here.
He maybe would have felt at one time, oh, maybe I should have come a bit earlier, but he's still got it in his tank, hasn't he?
So he's loving every minute of it.
He's an inspiration to people like Rashford.
Mkhitaryan's feeding off that now, showing the player he was at Dortmund.
And that's without Wayne Rooney, really.
I mean, Wayne's going to be a little bit of an in-and-out, bit part player, you'd imagine, because there's so many choices now for Jose Mourinho.
The manager's only as good as his players, and he's got some very good players there.
Frustrating night for the Hammers.
They saw Fuguli sent off controversially after only 15 minutes.
What are the thoughts of the West Ham manager, Slavan Bilic?
He's with Patrick Davison.
We have to say, given everything we've seen, that was a fairly measured and calm Slavon village, as we've come to expect.
But he says, look, if we continue to work this hard, things for West Ham will look good in the table.
Do you agree?
Yeah, I mean, listen, they've got to go out there and do it, haven't they?
You just get the sense, listening to Slavin there, he thought that was a good opportunity.
We spoke about it at the start, to get a result against Manchester United and to make the London Stadium feel more like home and kick on.
But what, they've got Crystal Palace away, Middlesbrough... No, Crystal Palace at home, Middlesbrough away, I think, next to league games.
So those are matches in which he'd feel he can get something from and...