West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Sir Alf]

We have failed every “biggest game of the season” so far and the run of them around xmas.

On what planet does anyone think we will be mentally or physically strong enough to overcome Burnley with their crowd feeling its genuinely a chance for a rare win. 

If its purely a law if probability thing fine but can anyone explain how we use our painfully thin squad to not materially weaken when we have to sub our front 2 and others which we gave to do most games.  Not using Potts and Magassa and the legs of someone like Mayers  or KWP seems to be the only option not tried by Nuno. But even if we do that, not having Todibo and having to play Kilman feels like a death sentence?

[stubbo-admin]

A win against Burnley and we will be on the coattails of either Leeds or Forest or both if they draw on Friday evening.    

We've got to outperform Leeds by 4 points between now and the last day of the season to have it in our hands to stay up.

Obviously we'd then lose that last game...but to at least be in the running on the last day feels acheivable.

[Russ of the BML]

Burnley is now possibly our biggest game of the season. Just to set up the next game which will then be the biggest game of the season and so on and so forth. 

[Mad Ferret]

I didn’t realise that we have gone 21 league games without a clean sheet plus the 5th worse defensive record in Europe.

Phenomenal. 

That's why we snapped up Disasi mate.

[twoleftfeet]

I didn’t realise that we have gone 21 league games without a clean sheet plus the 5th worse defensive record in Europe.

Phenomenal. 

[Tomshardware]

A win against Burnley and we will be on the coattails of either Leeds or Forest or both if they draw on Friday evening.    

[THUNDERCLINT]

Got a load of grief a month ago for calling it an asset strip and Sullivan happy to go down whilst pocketing cash. 

After that window leaving our squad thinner and a negative net spend.....

Where is the intent to stay up and where is the money?    Anyone care to explain..... 


 

He threw in the towel after Forest.

I hate myself for saying it, but from a financial perspective he was probably right, no point digging this hole any deeper.

[Rossal]

Got a load of grief a month ago for calling it an asset strip and Sullivan happy to go down whilst pocketing cash. 

After that window leaving our squad thinner and a negative net spend.....

Where is the intent to stay up and where is the money?    Anyone care to explain..... 

 

[Manuel]

"In West Ham's case, despite a gut-wrenching 3-2 defeat by Chelsea on Saturday night, the numbers make for slightly better reading, with the Hammers' chance of safety rated at 17.06%.

With a game against strugglers Burnley to come next week, West Ham - who looked dead and buried a month ago - are now starting to play with the freedom of a side with nothing to lose and everything to gain"

The beeb puts a stat and a bit of hope.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... dgjj6e31mo

There is no doubt at all we are looking a lot better right now, and if we carry on playing as we are we WILL win games, the question is will we win enough. We will know a lot more come Saturday tea time on our survival chances.

[Mex Martillo]

"In West Ham's case, despite a gut-wrenching 3-2 defeat by Chelsea on Saturday night, the numbers make for slightly better reading, with the Hammers' chance of safety rated at 17.06%.

With a game against strugglers Burnley to come next week, West Ham - who looked dead and buried a month ago - are now starting to play with the freedom of a side with nothing to lose and everything to gain"

The beeb puts a stat and a bit of hope.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... dgjj6e31mo

[Manuel]

I've long thought Leeds would be the one's to catch realistically. They are the newly promoted Club with a manager who will feel the pressure and someone who has struggled in the past to keep them in the division (Leeds and Norwich) so he doesn't have the know-how, Dyche does who also has a better set up at Forest. We play them last game of the season at the cesspit and I think is our best bet of staying up. What I don't want to see Friday is Leeds winning, a draw or Forest winning would feel the better outcome for me.

What a desperate fucking mess though to be in thanks to Nuno and the Owners. 

Exactly what I think, it's Leeds or no-one. All this talk about Palace and Spurs is just fanciful. They have a tough Feb and we have them at home still. We do not want them to win on Friday.

[Sir Alf]

Bless you lads. While its mathematically possible to survive, fans can still hope I guess but for me its been over since xmas. Too weak in key areas of the squad before the season began and not addressed this window.  Burnley will see us as a chance for 3 points and beat us I think especially since Kilman and Mavropanos will start. 

Sullivan is only interested in managing the cash flow now to keep the listless ship, that is West Ham, afloat for the immediate term before we go down. 

Sullivan, when we go down, will officially become the worst owner in our 126 year history.  Screwed the club over financially and as a footballing force and we will be back to where we were in the 1950s, a second tier club.

[Leonard Hatred]

Can't really see us getting out of this.

Gannin doon like a homesick mole.

[Massive Attack]

I've long thought Leeds would be the one's to catch realistically. They are the newly promoted Club with a manager who will feel the pressure and someone who has struggled in the past to keep them in the division (Leeds and Norwich) so he doesn't have the know-how, Dyche does who also has a better set up at Forest. We play them last game of the season at the cesspit and I think is our best bet of staying up. What I don't want to see Friday is Leeds winning, a draw or Forest winning would feel the better outcome for me.

What a desperate fucking mess though to be in thanks to Nuno and the Owners. 

[Mad Dog]

We're 6 behind them and a shot goal difference, they can actually win home games.
what on earth makes you think we'll overtake them?  

[Mad Ferret]

Fancy us surviving over Leeds.

[Mex Martillo]

Just a point conceded to Forest, not a great change. Still time and points. Take it game at a time blar blar blar.

[twoleftfeet]

What Burnley need is a match against us

[Sir Alf]

White flag being raised over the bowl as we speak.   

Funeral march to replace Bubbles before each game.  

A slow “death march” to the championship gets fully underway now.  

Only positive might be that it wakes up a few fans to the protests.

[Mad Dog]

Doesn't really matter if we get anyone in today to be honest.
we arent staying up, its too big of a task especially if we  dont learn from mistakes and keep throwing away leads using cowards tactics
so it makes no fucking difference

[Sir Alf]

“Thats about it”. I meant

Nothing gonna change under this owner. Will only get worse now imo.

[Sir Alf]

Thats about Leroy.

RIP West Ham Disunited

[LeroysBoots]

The club have clearly thrown the towel in, the support of the manager has been shocking. We had one of the smallest squads anyway and since Jan 1st they have asset stripped the squad in readiness for the relegation. Fullkrug, JWP, Irving, Guillherme, Paqueta, Earthy, Rodriguez,  Marshall, all shipped out. 4 after today brought in. 2 non scoring strikers, a busted flush either and a defender who has not kicked a ball in the Prem all season. Sullivan is a cսnt of the highest order 

[Westham67]

I was not a regular at Upton Park since 1998, when my work took me all over the North of England and then overseas. From memory, in the second division, depending on who we were playing, the gate would be 19,000 to 25,000, but there was an atmosphere there. It wont be there at the London stadium when it's half full

[Far Cough UKunt]

Have to beat Burnley saturday and then a huge game v Bournemouth when teams around us have harder fixtures. 

Sadly though, if we can't keep a clean sheet we have no chance of staying up. 

I also suspect the Todibo red will be something we look back on. We simply can not afford at this point to lose him for 3 games. Thankfully is one of them Burton? 

Yep. one includes Burton.

So Todibo has gone for a Burton?