Sam Allardyce will manage his 100th game for West Ham when the Hammers host Cardiff City in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday night.
The 58-year-old currently boasts a record of played 99, won 42, drawn 27 and lost 30, including promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, and masterminded the club’s 10th place finish in the top-flight the following season.
And Allardyce admits that he is proud of what he and the club has achieved so far, and that every target set since he took the job in 2011 has been achieved so far.
He told whufc.com: “Obviously I’m very pleased with the record we had in the Barclays Premier League last year and the year before we were expected to do well in the Championship.
“We’ve done everything that we said we would do, not just me and the back room staff, but also the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman and everyone else behind the scenes.
“We set out with the plan to get promoted in the first year, we did that. The second year we planned to stay up and in the end we surpassed expectations and finished tenth.”
And Allardyce is now concentrating on ensuring the club remain in the Premier League and aims for gradual growth for both the level of quality in the squad and the club itself.
“Now we’ve got to bring a sustainable balance to the squad which is going to keep us in the Premier League for many, many years,” he continued.
“We need to grow slowly, it’s probably unacceptable in today’s football but we have to convince everybody that growing slowly is the right way.
“It sustains the ability to get better and better and when you do that you are then able to achieve more and you can start looking at bigger things.”
