Slaven Bilic has compared West Ham's scintilating start to the Premier League season to 'a pub full of women'.
The Hammers boss was speaking after watching his side maintain their perfect away record, adding Saturday's success at Manchester City to wins at Arsenal and Liverpool last month.
The three points propelled Bilic's West Ham to second in the table and, though Manchester United's win at St. Mary's has since seen them drop a position, the former Croatia boss is already fielding questions about their potential, but batted away talk of Champions League qualification.
“I don’t play the targets down, seriously. Nobody is saying we are going to finish fourth," Bilic told reporters.
"What does 'targets’ mean? What are 'targets?’ Targets are for a club like Man United, all my targets are about trying to improve us day in, day out. Where is that going to take us? I don’t know.”
For now, the West Ham boss is simply enjoying his side's start to the new campaign. Despite early-season blips at home against Leicester then Bournemouth, the east London club have won three successive league games.
“Yeah, yeah. Of course I like it when we are winning,” Bilic added. “Of course it is brilliant! It is like when you come to a pub that is full of women! You will like it!
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