At last some truth…and it comes from vice captain Aaron Cresswell.
The long time Hammers servants has made it clear that nobody is shying away from the current situation but admits the players have been sloppy all over the pitch this season.
It’s easy for players to talk about putting things right on the training pitch, showing character and all the rest of it but thankfully the Cockney scouser is in in no mood to mince his words.
Instead he has told the official website: “We’ve been sloppy all over the park all season, and that’s why we’re in this situation. We’ve got to get ourselves out of this as fast as possible.
“So we’ve got to stick together. “We’re half-way through the season and we’ve got to keep going, keep fighting, keep believing and pushing on.”
Cresswell has experienced a range of highs and lows in his eight-and-a-half years with the Club, and won every previous relegation battle he has been involved in, and he believes the team possess thee character to again pull out of a difficult situation.
“We’ve got some big leaders in the dressing room and there’s nobody shying away,” he said. “We don’t want to be in this situation, we shouldn’t be in this situation on the back of the last two years we’ve had as a football club, but the reality is we are where we are, and it’s down to us to fight, to keep that spirit and keep believing.
“We’ve got to look forward to the next game [against Everton at London Stadium on Saturday] and try to take maximum points over the next few games.”
The team’s togetherness has been a feature of their success over the past three years, first to avoid the drop following the COVID shutdown in 2020, then to put together sixth and seventh-place finishes.
And the vice-captain, as a senior member of the squad, knows he and his teammates need to tighten things up at the back, be more clinical in attack and give 100 per cent from kick-off to finial whistle to turn losses into wins.
i’d have more time and respect for our players if they stopped mouthing off on social media or the official website about how they no that performances are not good enough but we will do everything we can to put it right blah blah bloody blah….instead of talking and typing on social media how about growing a set fronting the manager and telling him that its not working the players are unhappy and things need to change…and instead of going on about how brilliant this player or that player looks in training pull your fingers out of your backsides and show it on gameday because not one of you this season has that includes Rice……
Have to agree with you. The first thing to change is the amount of running and pressing we do. It was a staple of Moyes’s first spell in charge after the shocking laziness under Pellegrini. We’re just so bloody slow and laboured. How can you expect to get the fans roaring, or score goals when you, as a team, consistently come out of the blocks with no energy or desire?
Don’t just say it, Cressie… SHOW it!!
Come on we hear the same thing from different players . So why are you not showing the hard work , effort and desire on the pitch . We need hard graft not cheap talk . Now that’s more like the truth , if it’s Moyes tell him if it’s not then work together !
Wish I had a pound for every time I’ve heard this speech. They’ve been sloppy all season. Thought it might have occured to them to do something about it after, perhaps, four games, six, eight, etc. Aaron, leaving it to game 20 may possibly be a bit late mate! Its the formation, personnel and tactics that have let us down. For example, playing Kehrer at left back and playing Benny at, let me think now, rather not actually playing Benny at all. Its the manager. We all know that. He’s been sussed and doesn’t know any other way to play.