West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Sullivan's basically painted himself into a corner with no way out. He did this all by himself as he gave no authority to anyone else to sign the cheques.

If you fly by the seat of your pants, mortgaging your day-to-day operations against potential future earnings using payday loans, it's no surprise that those future earnings will never, ever materialise if you don't invest wisely in your core business at the appropriate time and hedge against a drop in the general economic situation.

Should have built a team (of equals) around Rice, not expect him to carry the other 10 on the pitch: equally, should have built a team around Payet, for exactly the same reason.

Sullivan wouldn't even consider doing so because it would have meant most transfers needed to build such a "next level" team would go through agents other than his mates.

However, I must confess that, should we drop into the fizzy pop league, I shall raise a sly smile should Sullivan not be able to find a buyer on account of the state he's got the club into.

[Tomshardware]

Classic traits of relegation teams are shipping soft goals and not scoring at the other end.    At the moment I can't see this changing.  What hasn't helped at all is Nuno’s bonkers team selections.   All the more baffling after a half decent performance at Everton.

 

[onsideman]

Basically a quarter of the season gone, so no

[Sir Alf]

Yep, we are gone already it could be argued. Seems insane saying that after 9 games but has anyone seen any grounds, however small, for hope? 

[Eastside surge]

No Southampton, no Ipswich this year and by the time January comes around when yet again we panic buy to get us out of trouble sadly I think this time it will be too late as we’ll be to many points adrift 

[zico]

When we have gone down before bar under Roeder when there was no way that team should have gone down, we were always a few players short.  Even in 2010–11 there was still Parker, Noble, Reid, Gabbidon, problem was they were surrounded by crap.  This time around I just don't see much quaility bar Bowen.  From a few players short we are 8 or 9.  Don't think I've seen a worse centre back pairing in the clubs history and that's the big problem.

[Mad Dog]

Nyc.  And Coventry.  They didn't own their stadium and as a result ended up absolutely fucked for years

[pdcwhu]

Lock this thread please 

[boleyn8420]

The side with the worst defence always gets relegation, so let's look at goal difference  okay bad starting point , we are -13, the worst in the whole division. Even worse than bottom club Wolves. We are fucked and no coming back

[nychammer]

The only thing this club will be worth when it goes down is the TV parachute payments, a crap overpaid squad and whatever revenue the dwindling fan following generates

We don't own the Stadium
We wont fill the Stadium
After 2 years we lose the parachute payments - then we are really fucked
We will struggle to be a viable championship side and the fan base will shrink and die off

We become Charlton Athletic with a shitty empty stadium

THE ABOVE will come to pass if we cant get the current ownership out in the next 2 years and investors who can harness the potential and take us off the self destruction path Sullivan and Brady have our famous old club on now. 

I cant attend the protest but believe me I would if I could. If you can please GO, and everyone must sign the petition, there is no excuse for not doing that much.

[eusebiovic]

Might as well give Igor from Young Frankenstein (Marty Feldman) a run out 

[onsideman]

If anyone wanted a true guage of how far we've gone backwards in the past 2 years then the fact that Mavropanos' injury has now made us weaker defensively is really all you need

[Sir Alf]

Igor will be a great fit for our team which is itself, due to lack of long term planning and switching managers and styles, the footballing equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster where none of the constituent parts fit together. 

[Nutsin]

The Brazilian geezer Igor is in the bottom 1% in Europes top leagues for aerial ability ( winning duels) but converself makes a lot of tackles and interceptions apparently?

Got to be worth a shot and tbh we have little choice if, as expected, Newcastle turn us over

 

 

Let me get this right.

We have no center half’s that can head the fucking ball, no holding midfielder, no midfielder with any pace or legs and an old washed up center forward.

And we’ve needed these for fucking ages. 

On top of that we have both our goal keepers that are glued to their line and can’t command the 6 yard box.


How the fuck does that happen to a professional football club?

[Fauxstralian]

Might as well give Igor from Young Frankenstein (Marty Feldman) a run out 

[Sir Alf]

The Brazilian geezer Igor is in the bottom 1% in Europes top leagues for aerial ability ( winning duels) but converself makes a lot of tackles and interceptions apparently?

Got to be worth a shot and tbh we have little choice if, as expected, Newcastle turn us over

[gpike]

Hard to see us getting out of this. Sunderland V Chelsea were all we are not ...commited have two decent strikers strength etc. 
Think if Sullivan opens his wallet in Jan it confirms what we all said the PSR bollox was a lie and their one and only concern is to avoid relegation. Trouble is they miscalculated that the three teams  coming up would be crap and would go back down again.
Cunts ...

[yngwies Cat]

Drop that French geezer and Bring in that Brazilian shit house as center back 

Fuck the inverted full backs. Utter wank football.

Tommy as much as I love you, your on the bench.
Andy can take the high road.

Pottsy Ferendez have to start.

I think we we might have a chance at scrapping some points and start a run.

 

[Mad Dog]

Not only are we nailed in going down. I dont see us coming back.

Fuck you sullivan you cսnt.

[mallard]

We came back up with better squads with both Pardew and Allerdyce

[twoleftfeet]

Sometimes you have to go down to come back, clear out the dead wood and prima donnas and get the spirit of the club back. No more tourists.

Hopefully Sullivan goes as well.

[southbankbornnbred]

I fear even the Fizzy maybe too much for this utter shite squad, league one beckons.

 

 

Yep. Genuinely, I’m resigned to relegation and at ease with it, FC.

Was after the Brentford game, which was as bad as anything we saw under Roeder or Grant.

I’m angry about it, as any fan should be. And I hold this woeful, talentless board responsible. But we’re not staying up with this squad. And January will probably come too late to save us (plus, we don’t have any money).

A few of us on here called it just before the season started. In fact, probably many of us (so there’s no great kudos in it). This is a terrible, disjointed, rudderless and unmotivated squad of players with a (very) few gems in it. They have been poorly coached for years, and the entire club has been poorly led at board level for decades. Nothing at the club works.

The only thing that has a pulse at West Ham is the fans. And even they are fracturing because the picture is so bleak (which I think is sad).

Things will get better. One day.

[Forest Gate Ugly]

Older posters here have seen this movie before and know how it ends. The passion and fight of supporters is irrelevant. The pampered, highly paid show ponies who represent us on the pitch have had enough, they just feel sorry for themselves, they can’t wait to activate their relegation clauses. Even if Nuno shakes off his stubbornness / madness, the dressing room is gone.  All so predictable. My only solace is that it is clear for all to see how utterly venal and useless are Sullivan and Brady. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

I fear even the Fizzy maybe too much for this utter shite squad, league one beckons.

[Nutsin]

Hate to break it to you all but the club is in free fall, fuck knows where the bottom is, hopefully we can get a quick turn around in the January window but don’t be surprised if we stay stuck in the Championship or find ourselves in Div 1 playing Leyton Orient.

Club is a shambles.