West Ham co-owner David Gold believes Slaven Bilic's side has the potential to finish in the top six this season.



Mauro Zarate features on the cover of this month's edition

In a big interview featured in Blowing Bubbles Monthly , Gold also set out his vision for West Ham for the next five years with the main target being regular European football and also stated the club will be debt free once the first ball is kicked at their new home in August."I'm sitting here right now and just for a moment I'm a fan and I'm optimistic," he said. "Their expectations levels have risen because of how things have gone but also because we've got some quality players."They didn't know what Lanzini was going to be like and how he would fit in. They also didn't know how Payet was going to settle in and become the player that he has been for us."The fans will be feeling like we can finish in a European place and I believe this side is good enough."West Ham legend Alan Taylor has also called on Slaven Bilic and his team to put a FA Cup run at the top of their priority list ahead of the visit of Wolves this weekend.Speaking to Blowing Bubbles, Taylor said he believes it's time for the club to give the fans a day out at Wembley after four years with Sam Allardyce showing very little respect for the famous trophy.The 62-year-old, who scored two goals in the 1975 FA Cup final against Fulham, also feels the competition would get some of its swagger back if the winner qualified for the Champions League."As a schoolboy, the FA Cup was big. The coverage would start at 8am on cup final day and go right through the day," he explained. "But today unfortunately, I think money talks and everybody knows that the European scene is far bigger and greater than the FA Cup."I'd like to see the situation where instead of having the top four play in the Champions League, the fourth place goes to the winners of the FA Cup [that will] I hope help the FA Cup cup go back to how it was originally."Elsewhere in this month's issue, George Parris writes in his column that Slaven Bilic proved his worth as the going got tough with injuries mounting up."We all know Slaven wants us to be playing attacking football but last month showed he will not sacrifice results in a bid to entertain, and we ended 2015 in eighth place - surely we would have all taken that at the start of the season?," George wrote.Meanwhile, writing in her column, the KUMB Podcast's Bianca Westwood believes Michail Antonio has shown there is lots of talent in the lower leagues."As fantastic as the academies are I just don't think the players coming through have that hunger that the likes of Jamie Vardy, Charlie Austin and Callum Wilson have after plying their trade in the lower leagues," she wrote.Blowing Bubbles' writers also outline nine New Year resolutions that will give West Ham fans a very happy New Year, ask where has it all gone wrong for Carl Jenkinson this year and if it's not time football closed the transfer window for good?The latest issue of Blowing Bubbles Monthly is now available to read for FREE on your computer, tablet or mobile phone.Link: http://www.blowing-bubbles.co.uk/read-our-latest-issue.html