West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
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West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
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Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 12:50
Prometheus59 wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 09:17 As said before Sacking Potter wasn’t the answer to the question of a dysfunctional squad and a Board with little ambition beyond mid table
Mid table? 17th you mean.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 12:47
I have tickets for the QPR game, originally thought it was Saturday but now its Sunday and travel is fucked I am knocking it on the head and just taking the hit on money I have paid for the tickets.
The thought of sitting in that cesspit with zero atmosphere whilst 9000 QPR fans take the piss isn't my idea of a good use of time
The thought of sitting in that cesspit with zero atmosphere whilst 9000 QPR fans take the piss isn't my idea of a good use of time
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 12:45
I'm thinking of knocking the Brighton game on the head, i'm so fucking depressed about the whole thing.
I've never missed a home game since we moved to the shithole.
Run by cunts.
Fuck off!
I've never missed a home game since we moved to the shithole.
Run by cunts.
Fuck off!
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 12:02
QPR are half decent this season. Who would have thought I would be jealous of QPR with a FOOTBALL stadium.
QPR will turn up at the cesspit backed by 9000 fans taking the absolute piss and probably beat us then it really will be season over.
NEXT LEVEL
QPR will turn up at the cesspit backed by 9000 fans taking the absolute piss and probably beat us then it really will be season over.
NEXT LEVEL
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 12:01
Yesterday could have gone either way. We didn't take our chances, they punished our mistake. I honestly think the Brighton game will be the turning point in our season.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 11:53
stubbo-admin wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 09:27 In my opinion, if we get relegated what saves us at that point is our Academy setup.
The highest profile players in that team as well as the team.collectively when playing in the Cup have shown themselves able to compete below Premier League level.
Casey, Potts, Earthy, Scarles...all clearly capable of playing good level Championship football.
Orford, Kante, Fearon, Herrick, Marshall, Myers...hugely well thought of and you'd expect to adjust seamlessly.
Then there are others....Cummings, Ajala, Golambeckis....that you would expect to come through and would be getting loans next season at that level .
Plus even if we wanted to we won't be able to shift every senior squad members so augment them with a few like KWP, JWP, maybe Guilherme, maybe someone on smaller wages like a Magassa...
...and we have a squad already that won't see us plummet to league one, and that is pretty much ready to go.
IMO we'd compete at the top end of the Championship...the challenge is staying up if you get up...Sunderland look like making a good fist of it but almost none of their squad played Championship football last season. It's a vastly inferior league and a team that smashes the Championship is rarely well enough equipped to survive the Premier League.
So you Yo-Yo a couple seasons....and it's the second relegation that I'd be fearful for.
We will find out on 11th Jan how we are likely to fare in the Championship and how good our academy is! QPR are having a reasonable season. If we are going to bounce straight up we should beat them comfortably. We'll see!
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 11:31
It’s amazing that people are failing to take into account the owners will make the same crap decisions in whatever league they find themselves, we’ll be the next Birmingham and being absolutely candid the club deserve it for the way we’ve been run, the fans don’t deserve it but just by being associated with the West Ham brand will be tarred with the same brush.
If you go to bed with an itchy arse don’t be shocked if you wake up with a smelly finger.
If you go to bed with an itchy arse don’t be shocked if you wake up with a smelly finger.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 11:12
I actually think we will come straight back up. We already have a championship team plus the parachute money and promising youngsters it will happen the trick is staying up.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 11:01
Although I'm an Atheist I've made my peace with god, champoinship here we come.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 10:29
In the past going down I've felt confident of coming up, this time I have no faith whatsoever
Teams will target us in the half empty stadium, and I've more belief we'll struggle or even drop down again.
IF by some miracle we bounce back, the money the prem teams get, we'll be so far behind cash wise we'll struggle when we get back. Most promoted teams struggle and often fall again.
Seriously how are so far behind teams like bournmouth, Fulham, Brighton, brentford and fucking palace... oh sullivan, thats why
They had BETTER drop season ticket prices next year
Teams will target us in the half empty stadium, and I've more belief we'll struggle or even drop down again.
IF by some miracle we bounce back, the money the prem teams get, we'll be so far behind cash wise we'll struggle when we get back. Most promoted teams struggle and often fall again.
Seriously how are so far behind teams like bournmouth, Fulham, Brighton, brentford and fucking palace... oh sullivan, thats why
They had BETTER drop season ticket prices next year
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 10:15
First we are going down as we would need to win 50% of the remaining matches. Second all this tripe about 'getting' West Ham is complete bullshit, to professional footballers it's a job, nothing more nothing less for which they are paid handsomely so they don't give a fuck who is paying them, it's a fallacy to say some players 'understood' what playing for West Ham is all about. Oh, really, how about playing for half your salary then.
Thirdly, why is the no mark manager still employed, he is trying his best to get sacked, so do it. No striker starting at home ffs.
Thirdly, why is the no mark manager still employed, he is trying his best to get sacked, so do it. No striker starting at home ffs.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 10:09
Westside wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 09:57stubbo-admin wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 09:27 In my opinion, if we get relegated what saves us at that point is our Academy setup.
The highest profile players in that team as well as the team.collectively when playing in the Cup have shown themselves able to compete below Premier League level.
Casey, Potts, Earthy, Scarles...all clearly capable of playing good level Championship football.
Orford, Kante, Fearon, Herrick, Marshall, Myers...hugely well thought of and you'd expect to adjust seamlessly.
Then there are others....Cummings, Ajala, Golambeckis....that you would expect to come through and would be getting loans next season at that level .
Plus even if we wanted to we won't be able to shift every senior squad members so augment them with a few like KWP, JWP, maybe Guilherme, maybe someone on smaller wages like a Magassa...
...and we have a squad already that won't see us plummet to league one, and that is pretty much ready to go.
IMO we'd compete at the top end of the Championship...the challenge is staying up if you get up...Sunderland look like making a good fist of it but almost none of their squad played Championship football last season. It's a vastly inferior league and a team that smashes the Championship is rarely well enough equipped to survive the Premier League.
So you Yo-Yo a couple seasons....and it's the second relegation that I'd be fearful for.To be fair, in the Premier Laegue era, we've hardly been a yo yo club when promoted. We've survived 8, 5 and 13 seasons before relegation the following seasons (we are going down this season).
I agree. But if you look at recent history, there's an increasing prevalence of the teams that come up going straight back down unless they do heavy and smart recruitment in the season they come up.
The teams that go with the core of who they were promoted with go straight back down.
IMO the landscape has changed and the disparity between the two leagues has grown since the last time we were in the league below.
The teams that go with the core of who they were promoted with go straight back down.
IMO the landscape has changed and the disparity between the two leagues has grown since the last time we were in the league below.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 09:57
stubbo-admin wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 09:27 In my opinion, if we get relegated what saves us at that point is our Academy setup.
The highest profile players in that team as well as the team.collectively when playing in the Cup have shown themselves able to compete below Premier League level.
Casey, Potts, Earthy, Scarles...all clearly capable of playing good level Championship football.
Orford, Kante, Fearon, Herrick, Marshall, Myers...hugely well thought of and you'd expect to adjust seamlessly.
Then there are others....Cummings, Ajala, Golambeckis....that you would expect to come through and would be getting loans next season at that level .
Plus even if we wanted to we won't be able to shift every senior squad members so augment them with a few like KWP, JWP, maybe Guilherme, maybe someone on smaller wages like a Magassa...
...and we have a squad already that won't see us plummet to league one, and that is pretty much ready to go.
IMO we'd compete at the top end of the Championship...the challenge is staying up if you get up...Sunderland look like making a good fist of it but almost none of their squad played Championship football last season. It's a vastly inferior league and a team that smashes the Championship is rarely well enough equipped to survive the Premier League.
So you Yo-Yo a couple seasons....and it's the second relegation that I'd be fearful for.
To be fair, in the Premier Laegue era, we've hardly been a yo yo club when promoted. We've survived 8, 5 and 13 seasons before relegation the following seasons (we are going down this season).
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 09:27
In my opinion, if we get relegated what saves us at that point is our Academy setup.
The highest profile players in that team as well as the team.collectively when playing in the Cup have shown themselves able to compete below Premier League level.
Casey, Potts, Earthy, Scarles...all clearly capable of playing good level Championship football.
Orford, Kante, Fearon, Herrick, Marshall, Myers...hugely well thought of and you'd expect to adjust seamlessly.
Then there are others....Cummings, Ajala, Golambeckis....that you would expect to come through and would be getting loans next season at that level .
Plus even if we wanted to we won't be able to shift every senior squad members so augment them with a few like KWP, JWP, maybe Guilherme, maybe someone on smaller wages like a Magassa...
...and we have a squad already that won't see us plummet to league one, and that is pretty much ready to go.
IMO we'd compete at the top end of the Championship...the challenge is staying up if you get up...Sunderland look like making a good fist of it but almost none of their squad played Championship football last season. It's a vastly inferior league and a team that smashes the Championship is rarely well enough equipped to survive the Premier League.
So you Yo-Yo a couple seasons....and it's the second relegation that I'd be fearful for.
The highest profile players in that team as well as the team.collectively when playing in the Cup have shown themselves able to compete below Premier League level.
Casey, Potts, Earthy, Scarles...all clearly capable of playing good level Championship football.
Orford, Kante, Fearon, Herrick, Marshall, Myers...hugely well thought of and you'd expect to adjust seamlessly.
Then there are others....Cummings, Ajala, Golambeckis....that you would expect to come through and would be getting loans next season at that level .
Plus even if we wanted to we won't be able to shift every senior squad members so augment them with a few like KWP, JWP, maybe Guilherme, maybe someone on smaller wages like a Magassa...
...and we have a squad already that won't see us plummet to league one, and that is pretty much ready to go.
IMO we'd compete at the top end of the Championship...the challenge is staying up if you get up...Sunderland look like making a good fist of it but almost none of their squad played Championship football last season. It's a vastly inferior league and a team that smashes the Championship is rarely well enough equipped to survive the Premier League.
So you Yo-Yo a couple seasons....and it's the second relegation that I'd be fearful for.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 09:17
As said before Sacking Potter wasn’t the answer to the question of a dysfunctional squad and a Board with little ambition beyond mid table
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 07:57
Sullivan and the powers that be at the club deserve everything that is happening. They’ve run it like arkwrights corner shop, signing misfit players and managers as self appointed directors of football and what success they have stumbled upon they’ve pissed up the wall on even more bad decisions that have just compounded.
The fans deserve none of it and Supporting this club has been miserable.We so badly need rid of this poison and soon, but he ain’t going to sell up as a championship club with a lower valuation and take the loss. No, that megalomaniac thinks were worth twice what anyone would realistically pay, looking at our assets on paper. Hell want us back in the PL first but I just don’t see us bouncing straight back so we may be stuck with him. That is why staying up this season is so important as there is always a chance he sells as a PL chairman.
The fans deserve none of it and Supporting this club has been miserable.We so badly need rid of this poison and soon, but he ain’t going to sell up as a championship club with a lower valuation and take the loss. No, that megalomaniac thinks were worth twice what anyone would realistically pay, looking at our assets on paper. Hell want us back in the PL first but I just don’t see us bouncing straight back so we may be stuck with him. That is why staying up this season is so important as there is always a chance he sells as a PL chairman.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 07:35
How many millions had they wasted on transfers…
Buy high…Offload Low..
Hundreds of Millions wasted…
Over 50 strikers is just one example…
them many defenders and midfielders too…
Incompetent Chairman playing at Football Genius…
Buy high…Offload Low..
Hundreds of Millions wasted…
Over 50 strikers is just one example…
them many defenders and midfielders too…
Incompetent Chairman playing at Football Genius…
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 07:30
And the stadium remains a MASSIVE millstone around our necks.
The worst football ground in England. By a mile.
The worst football ground in England. By a mile.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 07:28
Dare I suggest that’s what’s needed is a Pardew-style rebuild after we go down. We need to base the club around a group of young, ambitious British players who “get” the culture of the place - even if they grew up elsewhere.
All well and good having talented international players, of course. I’m certainly not saying we shouldn’t sign any! But too many of this crop just want the money. They’d just as easily play for Sunderland, Fulham or Leeds as us. The concept and reality of “West Ham” literally means nothing to them.
Train a few times a week, play badly on Saturdays, take the cheque and live the footballer’s life.
All well and good having talented international players, of course. I’m certainly not saying we shouldn’t sign any! But too many of this crop just want the money. They’d just as easily play for Sunderland, Fulham or Leeds as us. The concept and reality of “West Ham” literally means nothing to them.
Train a few times a week, play badly on Saturdays, take the cheque and live the footballer’s life.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 07:18
Too much to say.
Relegation is never the end of us. We’ve experienced it before - several times - and come back stronger. The question this time is how do you achieve that with near-Octogenarian megalomaniac fuckwit Sullivan in charge on his own?
This squad is one of the worst, most disjointed, over-rated and couldn’t-care-less group of mercenaries we’ve ever had. Too many of them are here purely for the money. We’ve gradually allowed ourselves to sign poor quality hired guns, rather than people who are - or want to be - part of the fabric of this club. They won’t even blink on their way out of the door after relegation, they’ll just move on to the next set of mugs stupid enough to pay them silly money for their limited talent.
Too many of this lot are Championship quality players milking Premier League money out of a clueless ownership.
With a few notable exceptions, nobody really cares. That’s one of many issues.
Bad mistake though it was, it was actually not discouraging to see Ollie Scarles crying after the game, because at least one member of that squad actually gives a shit.
Relegation is never the end of us. We’ve experienced it before - several times - and come back stronger. The question this time is how do you achieve that with near-Octogenarian megalomaniac fuckwit Sullivan in charge on his own?
This squad is one of the worst, most disjointed, over-rated and couldn’t-care-less group of mercenaries we’ve ever had. Too many of them are here purely for the money. We’ve gradually allowed ourselves to sign poor quality hired guns, rather than people who are - or want to be - part of the fabric of this club. They won’t even blink on their way out of the door after relegation, they’ll just move on to the next set of mugs stupid enough to pay them silly money for their limited talent.
Too many of this lot are Championship quality players milking Premier League money out of a clueless ownership.
With a few notable exceptions, nobody really cares. That’s one of many issues.
Bad mistake though it was, it was actually not discouraging to see Ollie Scarles crying after the game, because at least one member of that squad actually gives a shit.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 06:13
I was in the pub yesterday with the Sky channel on that covers the results . They showed Bowen trudging off at half time . I honestly thought we would get a positive result out of this . When I saw his demeanour I changed my mind .He looked a defeated man void of ideas and confidence .
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 00:40
cup of tea" wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 00:23There is also a possibility of dropping further into league 1. Its not beyond reality that it could happen. Its happened to clubs just as big as us before like Leeds, Sheff W, Forest, even Man C
That's what I was referring to with "Or continue into oblivion"
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 00:23
wils wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 00:19 Bar some unexpected dramatic turn of events, we are down.
So question is what happens to us then. Bounce back up? Extended run in the championship? Or continue into oblivion with club sinking into bankruptcy?
If Sullivan stays, I suspect it latter is most likely. If he moves on and we move out that stadium then an extended run in the championship is possible. Can't see a scenario where we bounce back up.
There is also a possibility of dropping further into league 1. Its not beyond reality that it could happen. Its happened to clubs just as big as us before like Leeds, Sheff W, Forest, even Man C
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 00:19
Bar some unexpected dramatic turn of events, we are down.
So question is what happens to us then. Bounce back up? Extended run in the championship? Or continue into oblivion with club sinking into bankruptcy?
If Sullivan stays, I suspect it latter is most likely. If he moves on and we move out that stadium then an extended run in the championship is possible. Can't see a scenario where we bounce back up.
So question is what happens to us then. Bounce back up? Extended run in the championship? Or continue into oblivion with club sinking into bankruptcy?
If Sullivan stays, I suspect it latter is most likely. If he moves on and we move out that stadium then an extended run in the championship is possible. Can't see a scenario where we bounce back up.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 19:06
Sullivan has about 38% ownership…
Jointly the others could vote him out…Kretinsky and Gold family…
Jointly the others could vote him out…Kretinsky and Gold family…