New Zealand centre-back Reid is due to undergo a scan on Friday to determine how long he will be sidelined for after injuring himself in training.
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The Irons are already without Dimitri Payet, Diafra Sakho and Manuel Lanzini, but Enner Valencia could return.
Alistair Bruce-Ball: “Stoke produced one of the most thrilling performances of the season last Saturday in beating Manchester City, and it will be interesting to see if Mark Hughes is bold enough to unleash his front three of Bojan, Xherdan Shaqiri and Marko Arnautovic again”. “Reid got injured in training”.
“I heard that in recent years the managers were taking the players to Malaga to train”, Bilic said. He slipped and felt it rupture.
West Ham defender Winston Reid faces up to six weeks on the sidelines with a hamstring injury, according to reports coming out of the club from the son of chairman David Sullivan. “Of course it’s a big blow for us because they are six very important players, but we are going to move on and we have to get over this period without them”.
For West Ham, it is pivotal that they rediscover their early season form otherwise their season will begin to bare all the similarities to Sam Allardyce’s campaign last term.
Bilic lamented the Hammers’ growing injury list, but called on the fit players in his squad to stick together and cover the absences. Can we finish higher, in the top six?
Victor Moses became the latest player on the treatment table at Upton Park when he picked up a hamstring problem at Old Trafford last week.
“Now it is about the squad and the character of the players we have, it is time for them to step up and help the team”.
“We were planning to move next season, at the start, to Rush Green because of the quality of the pitches”. I decided we will go on Monday.
“The Chadwell Heath pitches are soft on top but hard underneath, which is the worst combination”, said Bilic.
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Four key Hammers are out with muscle injuries which can all be brought back to the training ground pitches and so change has been made with the Hammers moving two miles down the road to Rush Green from next week onwards.
