Austin’s future at QPR was the subject of intense speculation during the summer with a number of Premier League clubs credited with an interest in the forward, but QPR managed to keep hold of the player despite relegation to the Championship.
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While Allardyce led the Hammers back into the Premier League and established them as a top flight club, there were grumbles about their style of football under the current Sunderland boss and he eventually left West Ham at the end of last season.
Allardyce will have a point to prove to West Ham when he visits Upton Park with his Sunderland team in February next year. “I’m sure he’ll go in there and stabilise them and get them climbing the league”.
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“People forget that when they got relegated, he got them promoted in the first year and they kicked on from there”.
Nolan and Allardyce have a long history together and the manager made the midfielder his captain during their long stint at Bolton Wanderers.
Allardyce took aim at the West Ham fanbase over their tempestuous relationship with him in the latest serialised extract from his autobiography.
Allardyce has hit out at the club’s fanbase, believing them to be brainwashed into believing in a philosophy that didn’t exist.
“As soon as I was appointed West Ham manager in 2011 the big debate was whether I would follow the “West Ham way”, which nobody could ever define but, whatever the hell it was, apparently I didn’t play it”, he said.
“But the fans were being brainwashed into thinking that, historically, the club had a particular style of play akin to Barcelona, which was potty”, he continued.
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But the former West Ham boss insists there is enough quality and experience within the club to turn things around.
