The Premier League will make sure Arsenal win the title !
The @premierleague have a strategic plan, to put a new name on the trophy in every six year period.
(Richard Scudamore, former premier league CEO)
West Ham United’s impending relegation is the result of years of mismanagement and slow decline. The patchwork football club, in the 60k makeshift stadium overtaken by dozens of better run, historically smaller clubs with barely half that.
Run with idiotic, short term thinking, by a chairman who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Loyal fans cast aside and treated with total disdain. No plan off the pitch, a confused mess on it, born from a total lack of professionalism and planning.
Fighting relegation most seasons, despite regularly spending hundreds of millions (via payday loans) on old players recommended by the owners’ mates. A few memorable seasons with David Moyes papering over the huge cracks in the poorly hidden running track.
A decade after we left the Boleyn Ground, WHU has never felt more lost. You’ll see few highlight reels from the club for the upcoming anniversary: for the most part, it’s been a torrid decade in the bowl.
If relegation rids us of Sullivan, so be it. But with 100m of debt (how?) and double that owed in player purchases, it could be a long, long time before we’re at this level again. We’re about to find out just how many clubs we’ve fallen behind.
#whufc #NomoreBS
Studs up, reckless, no contact with the ball.
Decision - Brentford goal.
One of many diabolical VAR and refereeing decisions.
We were shafted today pure and simple.
👏 "West Ham have take 18 points from 12 matches... they were down!"
🔥 "Nuno has got them in a really good spot, he's done an amazing job!"
Tony Cascarino believes #WHUFC will beat the drop after a huge win against Wolves! ⚒️
The owners deserve this, disgrace of a season in every way, disgusting performances, disgusting recruitment, disgusting running of a football club, January window we signed absolute garbage. This is the worst I’ve ever seen this football club
30 - Arsenal took 30 minutes and 51 seconds to restart play against Brighton last night, their highest total in a Premier League match this season. Delayed.
There can't have been too many more dramatic falls from grace in recent Premier League history than Lucas Paquetá.
4 goals and 3 assists in his first season at West Ham lead to talks of an £80m bid from Man City...
But the deal is called off after the FA launch an investigation into alleged betting breaches, and in all honesty his form never quite gets back to the same level.
Now, with 18 months left on his contract (+ an option of a further year), he appears to be angling for a return to Brazil, with personal terms reportedly agreed with Flamengo.
Far from ideal for a West Ham side sitting 18th, 7 points from safety.
Can't help feeling that West Ham deserve a little more loyalty from a player they've stuck by in difficult circumstances.
Nuno is a fighter. He’s never hidden. But this looks a fight too far. Seven points is more than a gap. It must feel like a gulf. Nuno is a manager who cares and is clearly hurting but he looks bereft of ideas and hope. And who motivates the motivator?
Even if Nuno goes, so many problems remain. Poor recruitment. Agents’ influence. Too few top-level players. Too few players with strength of character. Started well but belief is brittle. Forest’s players fought harder for longer.
Some good things - academy brings hope for the future, Foundation brings hope in the community. But the club is a mess. It’s a badly run club and good people are leaving. Gaps in staff, gaps in the stands. The club should be West Ham United, not Divided. The distance between fans and the board is even bigger than the distance between fans and the pitch.
They are stuck with the stadium, an athletics stadium. Fans were sold a dream which has turned into a nightmare. It’s soulless - the antithesis of Upton Park. At the very least the board could invest more in making the London Stadium more of a football ground. Also more investment in training ground required.
Protests will continue. Board members can either sell - which most fans seem to want - or acknowledge their many mistakes and actually listen to fans and act on their legitimate concerns, ticket prices, stadium flaws etc, and try and rebuild together. As with survival in the Premier League, it looks too late for that. It’s sad. A good family club torn apart - and much of the damage self-inflicted by an insular board. #WHUFC
A reminder of what this man has done. Ripped the heart and soul out of the club, no clear plan, scattergun recruitment, moved to a soulless stadium with no coalition to West Ham. Won’t pay compensation for a manager and now we’re paying the heavy price. Heartbreaking.
#NoMoreBS