Hammers board needs to reflect big time

Time to reflect on a forgettable season

Thank Heavens, this forgettable season has finally drawn to a close. The limp defeat at Leicester was a timely reminder of that.

It was fairly obvious from the first whistle which team was fighting for survival and which had their minds on Prague and a certain fixture with Italian side Fiorentina.

As much as we all want to see West Ham leave the pitch after every game as the winning side, I suppose everyone on CandH would happily trade in a league defeat to Leicester against an actual trophy in a European final.

Selecting a starting XI for this one and making the right substitutions was always going to be a balancing act for our Supremo, what with the ECL final clearly taking priority in his decision-making process.

We actually had more than enough opportunities to draw the game…I am looking at you Mr Ings. But, overall we appeared to lack a sense of urgency and also we had little aerial threat upfront to stand much of a chance in the game.

However, Pablo Fornals got the only goal for the mighty Hammers and he has suddenly developed into our little Spanish talisman, scoring almost at will, so I wouldn’t bet against him starting for us in Prague…

It’ll be interesting to see how the West Ham hierarchy are going to analyse and compute all the shortcomings over the course of our Premier League season.

And how this is going to affect our summer transfer business. Is Scamacca going to return to Italy at the first opportunity ? Does Ings have a future here ? Will Cornet ever start a game?

We are in for an interesting summer !