West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Sweep]

Wolves have been a three point leg-up for every club bar Spurs and Brighton. We can't afford to mess that up.

Then beating Fulham and Forest would be double value as they are among those we have most chance of catching.

They have to have players through the door on 1 January. Waiting for 'value' will most likely be a false economy and our fate will be sealed before players turn up.
 

[El Scorchio]

We need back to back wins which needs us to have a run of relatively kind fixtures.

Fulham (h) / Brighton (h) / Wolves (a) / Forest (h) / Spurs (a) is that run of fixtures.

Whether we stay up or not will be decided by mid-January with those results and the success or failure in sorting out the weaknesses in the squad in time for the tougher games.  At least two forwards (striker and left winger) and a CB needed.



 

This, this, and thrice this. 

In 6 games time we'll know our fate one way or another.

Yup absolute must wins now. That was a pretty tough run of fixtures we’re just out of and we have to take 7-9 points minimum from these next four even if someone loses all their form we are basically 10 points back from most of them and basically relying n someone’s arse falling out as well as our form picking up. We are almost having to hope for a golden bullet player to rock up at the start of the transfer window. 

This is a very bad season in this division to be poor as there are only two other poor sides as opposed to most seasons when there would be plenty more sides on 15-16 points at the moment. Everyone is up in the mid to low 20s which is a bit unusual. Yes it’s unlucky but we need er should have been in this situation in the first place- thanks Sullivan. 

Draws aren’t any good any more. 

[stubbo]

We need back to back wins which needs us to have a run of relatively kind fixtures.

Fulham (h) / Brighton (h) / Wolves (a) / Forest (h) / Spurs (a) is that run of fixtures.

Whether we stay up or not will be decided by mid-January with those results and the success or failure in sorting out the weaknesses in the squad in time for the tougher games.  At least two forwards (striker and left winger) and a CB needed.


 

This, this, and thrice this. 

In 6 games time we'll know our fate one way or another.

[Massive Attack]

The problem we have is Nuno has royally fucked up form leading up to the window opening where better players will not want to arrive now we are getting cut adrift. That was Nunos responsibility to keep us with those above us but now it's turned in to a disaster situation. Can't blame players for not joining a seemingly doomed situation that's worsened since he took over from Potter. Games like Leeds, Brentford, Bournemouth are the types of games he should have gone hell for leather to capitalise yet he chose to dick around when we couldn't afford that luxury. Only got himself to blame now for the hole he's partly dug himself. 🕳 

[GBHammer63]

I reckon we will stay up,but only just
We are definitely playing with a bit more fight than under piss poor potter 
Yes I'm always an optimist and no doubt the miserable fuckers on here and doom and gloomers will rip into me 

Unfortunately if we do just scrape up, next year will be commencing with exactly the same ambition. The geniuses know no other way, they find it impossible to even admit they possibly could have made a little misjudgment or two over the last 15 years.

[RootsRadical]

We and everyone at the club knows we need 2 or signings who will improve the first team to give us a chance, any other club in our position has these players lined up to sign in the first week of the window to maximize our chances and to get them settled in asap.
Nuno should have identified the players he needs and be banging on Sullivan's door demanding them asap.

Sullivan will fuck around as usual, wait until the last week of the window and sign a couple of loans who either won't settle in until it's too late or will join a long list of failed January loans.

[XKhammer]

I reckon we will stay up,but only just
We are definitely playing with a bit more fight than under piss poor potter 
Yes I'm always an optimist and no doubt the miserable fuckers on here and doom and gloomers will rip into me 

[nychammer]

Gb hammer, yes our next 4 games are "winnable", but id guess all 4 clubs are looking at us in the same way.

I guarantee here and now that wolves first win comes against us.  Thats like buying money 

And if it does we fully deserve to go 

[Sweep]

We need back to back wins which needs us to have a run of relatively kind fixtures.

Fulham (h) / Brighton (h) / Wolves (a) / Forest (h) / Spurs (a) is that run of fixtures.

Whether we stay up or not will be decided by mid-January with those results and the success or failure in sorting out the weaknesses in the squad in time for the tougher games.  At least two forwards (striker and left winger) and a CB needed.

 

[Mad Dog]

Gb hammer, yes our next 4 games are "winnable", but id guess all 4 clubs are looking at us in the same way.

I guarantee here and now that wolves first win comes against us.  Thats like buying money 

[Keep dreaming]

Can’t see how we get out of this, it’s easy to say our next four are winnable but the teams above us will have winnable games throughout the rest of the season, I’ve always thought that over a season you finish where you deserve to and although the fans don’t deserve the shit we’ve been served up, Sullivan Brady and our recruiting have had no other ambition than picking over the bones of promoted teams for too many seasons

Next four winnable. Laughable as we have 3 wins in total of 17.
We are down!

[Massive Attack]

Forever cursed with penny pinching clueless Owners. Oh to finally have ambitious ones who have half an idea of what they are doing. 

[GBHammer63]

Can’t see how we get out of this, it’s easy to say our next four are winnable but the teams above us will have winnable games throughout the rest of the season, I’ve always thought that over a season you finish where you deserve to and although the fans don’t deserve the shit we’ve been served up, Sullivan Brady and our recruiting have had no other ambition than picking over the bones of promoted teams for too many seasons

[twoleftfeet]

We. Are. Fucked.

and when we go down, I dont think we'll be back, everyone will target us in a half empty stadium and our squad will be ill equipped to handle it.  

And we'll have to listen to years of uninformed cunts banging on that its "our fault for getting rid of moyes"

Thanks yet again sullivan and brady you pair of shitcunts.  It ALL comes down to these fucking cunts.  I wish there was a stronger word I could use as I despise them with a passion

It’s the West Ham way. A couple of times in our past we have been on the cusp of greatness but never took the ball and ran. 85/86 we had a great team and with a few decent signings we could have competed at the top again the following season but the board kept their hands in their pockets, the same after the conference win, a few signings and who knows what we could have achieved but the board, and Moyes, thought they knew better. Like I say it’s not a new thing and we shoot ourselves in the foot a lot.

[Mad Dog]

We. Are. Fucked.

and when we go down, I dont think we'll be back, everyone will target us in a half empty stadium and our squad will be ill equipped to handle it.  

And we'll have to listen to years of uninformed cunts banging on that its "our fault for getting rid of moyes"

Thanks yet again sullivan and brady you pair of shitcunts.  It ALL comes down to these fucking cunts.  I wish there was a stronger word I could use as I despise them with a passion

[Massive Attack]

Sunderland in danger

COYI is the gift that keeps giving.

Yeah, not a fucking chance and good luck to them for enjoying their time in the sun for a change. 

[twoleftfeet]

Sunderland in danger

COYI is the gift that keeps giving.

[Sir Alf]

Fair play Massive. I will treat you to a few pints i promise f we survive

[Massive Attack]

I'm still sticking to my prediction we won't go down but I'm just not all that convinced it will be under Nuno that achieves it.

[Sir Alf]

Really hope you prove me / us wrong COYI

Just dont see where the goals needed will come from and we cant keep a clean sheet.  2 harbingers of doom in the PL
 

[Far Cough UKunt]

Basically we're fucked, thanks a bunch you cunts Sullivan and Brady.

[Come On You Irons]

Plenty of people wrote us off in 2007 too.

I wouldn't want to be in the trenches with any of you surrender monkeys. Everyone from probably Sunderland in 6th are still not safe from being sucked into a relegation battle.

I am keeping an eye on Sunderland. I strongly suspect they will run out of steam and plummet down the table after their decent start.

[Sir Alf]

We’re gone imo Fauxstralian. Sullivan’s ego or psychology and of course collective greed from the owners.  Thats the problem with narcissistic people, they are psychologically  unable to admit they get anything wrong, think they know best about everything and refuse to listen to advice. 16 years of Sulluvan and back where we started in the championship but unlike at the start we will not be primed for a quick return unless new owners with long term ambition who want to win things erc come in.  From what I see that probably mwans selling our soul to the Arab nation “sports washers”

 

[Fauxstralian]

Things can change but not sure who we are catching
Leeds have picked up dramatically and with their passionate home crowd are on a roll
Dyche is sorting out Forest & they’ve been without Chris Wood
Fulham & Bournemouth have enough about them to be comfortably fine 

By the time we play Forest on Jan 6 our fate could be pretty settled being maybe 10+ points adrift

[Sir Alf]

Aside from 18 months under Moyes in the league aided by no crowds for quite a few months of that and a few European games over the next season culminating in a great night in Prague, the 16 years under GSB and now GB have, lets face it, been pretty poor to mediocre with mismanagement and incompetence, quite a few relegation struggles, mostly survival style football.  

Sullivan and Brady deserve everything they get for essentially overselling and downright lying to make us move from UP using terms like “world class team for a world class stadium”.  That stadium is now a huge impediment to building revenue and progress and the worst for entertainment and atmosphere in Europes top leagues.

After 16 years we will right back where we started in the Championship, but with our history or legacy sold off in order to try bump up the asset value of a bunch of greedy milliionaires and billionaires.  Their period of ownership has been a disaster, calamatious when viewed thru the lens of WHU history.  Abject failure with now the very thing they prioritised ( their personal wealth ) in the toilet too. Small consolation but they at least get hit in their wallets which is all they really care about.

Sullivan and Brady deserve vitroil of the loudest kind for the remainder of their tenure until they are sent packing.  The inscription on their tombstones “football club killers”