The Hammers have had an indifferent start to the season and they have already been beaten at their new home by Astra Giurgiu in the Europa League and by Watford in the Premier League.
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Meanwhile, Bilic has branded the meeting with League Two Stanley as the first of three cup finals for his side.
Accrington boss John Coleman wants his team to take an attacking approach to Wednesday’s EFL Cup third-round tie at West Ham – even if it leaves them vulnerable to a thrashing from the Premier League side. “I don’t like to talk about it, I look at the job as though my contract is my next couple of games, that’s the way I’ve always been and that’s the way I am now”. We have a good opportunity to come out of this. “It’s good to have a game tomorrow night”.
“Success breeds success, we can get better players, the stadium is getting better, we’re hoping to find some training facilities, one things leads to another, if you can get the ball going in the right direction, we’ve gone from going backwards and struggling all the time to hopefully moving in the right direction”. We will not be going there to park the bus, we will be going there to attack and score goals and if that means we get beat 7-0 so be it. We spoke yesterday and we have to show a reaction straight away.
“Starting tomorrow we have three mega games before the global break”, he said. “We have to do it in games.” he told whufc.com.
Southampton and Middlesbrough visit east London in the next 10 days, and Bilic is demanding more consistent displays despite the difficulty of integrating nine summer signings from eight different leagues.
The teen is being linked with Manchester United.
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Bilic is confident Oxford will commit his future to the club eventually and believes he should follow in the footsteps of the likes of Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and Michael Carrick, who were regulars for West Ham before moving on.
