Jarrod Bowen & Mohammed Kudus Struggling Under Julen Lopetegui’s West Ham Leadership | What’s Wrong?

Very refreshing to see geo and gonzo call out bowen and that's why hes my favourite westham youtuber…very fair and honest unless they talking about lanzini😂😂😂…im being honest bowen would of been the last player to pick as captain and if hes not careful he will loose hes England place

Alvarez as single CDM, Paqman and Mo in the middle, Summerville and Bowen on the wings, then he has multiple options for a slow striker up front!

I would be surprised if loppy turns this around! Gone by Christmas but hope I’m wrong

Look, whats happening with Bowen is a natural progression of the Kudus/Bowen problem. Lets first address the fact that given how we played against Chelsea, it didn't matter who we had up top, they wasn't going to get into that game as a lone forward. next issue, our 2 best players are MOST EFFECTIVE on the right wing. Bowen needs to play there and Kudus needs to play there, making Bowen captain was a mistake right now, because you need your captain on the pitch, but we know how good Kudus is and he needs to be on the pitch.

Way I see it the only way this gets better is committing to a system whereby either Kudus starts on the right wing and Bowen HAS to commit to playing either as a 10, or as a CF, which is sad because Bowen plays his best football cutting in from the right. the only way to fix this, is to sell one of them. thats it.

Every west ham fan knows Bowen is too "nice" for captain material. He is my favourite west ham player but captain NO thank you.

Geo is spot on with the comments on Bowen being Captn, apparantly he's a shy & quite bloke & probably too much of a gent for that role, being up front also makes verbal info more difficult for him, you need a natural aggressive shouty toughguy in midfield that can read the whole game better, it's also beneficial & easier for feeding info from the managers tech area to the captn, IMO Alverez fits the role, Jarred won't say anything but looking at his body language i think its affecting his game, it's J-Lo's job to suss it & change it.

We could be really decent in a proper system..
Last season 1st half v Leverkusen, pressed properly, Alvarez on front foot chased them down Bowen&Kudus the same we had a top class team back pedalling..we can play front foot football even under Moyes we did it that night for 45 mins, we were excellant… the tactics and coaching is wrong …what was Lp thinking? allowing full backs bombing on like that, felt sorry for Alvarez…Alvarez is a fine player..he had no chance in that set-up against Jackson&Palmer,terrible from Lp.. Alvarez is our best midfield ball winner, not a fkin centre half…jeez!! we've got the tools to do really well

Floppy needs to stop playing that formation we need 4-4-2 or4-4-1-1 awb can defend but he is not a wingback if you played Bowen and Summerville wide in midfield Alvarez and paqueta in cm. Kudus in no10 or alongside fulkrug at least the midfield won’t get over ran,

On this form Bowen will be dropped from next England squad

Steiden did not want floppy.

They won’t take the armband off him now , imagine the detrimental effect on his moral, the awarding of captain to him stinks of keeping him on side and lack of judgment by the manager who had supposedly been studying the team for ages, forwards should never be captains, imagine what noble would have been doing out there on Saturday!!’

When you talked about how cunha and ati nouri were liberated under Gary O’neal makes complete sense when you realise that Lopetegui was a Goalkeeper. Goalkeepers have a limited understanding as they only see what happens in one half of the pitch, Lopetegui may know how he wants he defenders to play but as a Goalkeeper he must be clueless in how attackers play and to be effective on the opposite end of where Lopetegui spent his entire career.

Next 3 games are so important. If we lose all 3 games…. then I would say we need a new manager.

The problem is, who would do a better job? Kilman? Alvarez? Surely we don't want Soucek or Paqueta to be our captain? It has to be Jarrod.

Gonzo is a pinball wizard…there has to be a twist?

When I heard that JL had made Bowen captain, my instant reaction was I knew he had made a mistake. Bowen isn't a leader. He might think he is in his head….but from what I've seen, he is way off the mark. The Chelsea game proved me right. If he can't do it in front of his home fans…..how is he going to do it in an away game?

When Joe Root was made captain of the England cricket team I said the same thing. I had a big hunch that Root's natural game was going to disappear down the drain and his batting wasn't going to be at the standard we all knew he was capable of. I was right again. He was one of the best players England had, probably the best one to be honest. The same thing I think is happening to Bowen. He now has that responsibility on the pitch and he's got to have that attitude and behaviour that a Captain needs. I'm not saying he has to be like Roy Keane or Patrick Viera….but where their own game isn't going to be affected that much, if at all. I'm worried that it has already started to affect his natural game.

If Max Kilman was given the armband at Wolves by JL then why hasn't he given it to him at WHU? That's a question I'm struggling to answer. He saw something in Max that deserved the armband, so the easiest solution would have been to give it to him again. He knows his strengths and weaknesses more than he knows Bowens so it doesn't make sense to me why Bowen was given the captaincy. If JL has given Bowen the armband because he's been at the club longer than Kilman….then that in my book is no reason to give Bowen the armband. That's not how a Manager (Coach) should pick a captain. I would have given it to Kilman if I had the choice, irrespective of the fact that he had just come to the club.

West Ham play better as a unit when we have a flat back 4, home or away. The back 3 playing AWB and Emerson as wingbacks will not work. I never want to see it again. 433 or 4231 would be my choice. Both formations which JL is used to playing wherever he's gone. The Chelsea game was a complete fuck up by JL in his tactics. He should have seen the AWB and Emerson tactic wasn't right and put them back into a back 4 and told them to not push too high up. That would have nullified Chelsea and pushed it all through the middle.We would have been a far better match for Chelsea had JL done that after the first goal had gone in. For a coach of his history to not spot that is inexcusable.

I hope that this game is a big wake up call to JL and his staff and we never see a performance and set up like that again.

COYI

So far, the team set up by JLo was playing too slow. Lacked pace. Kudus and Bowen strive when the team played w pace.