It’s one of football’s greatest inevatabilities that the word “sack” trips off many lips when things go wrong over two, three or four games.
It’s been mentioned more regularly over recent days in connection with and ClaretandHugh followers have been giving their views.
Here’s a random selection of their comments.
- Sack him? laughable! Anyone think we have about 30m to pay off him and his team?
What does surprise me is how much he’s being paid, I think we’ll finish about 10-12th so the question I ask is he worth circ 8m a year? Time will tell. Personally I hope they give him a new contract in the summer otherwise next season will drift like in other seasons when there are consistent questions about the manager’s future if being out of contract and we know players use this as an excuse. I don’t think we improved the defence from last year, it shows now. If you can’t keep clean sheets at this level you will always be chasing.
- I’ve been a Hammer for 60 years and I’m a “sack Pelle” now fan – and I don’t think its sad. I think its sensible. Leicester are in the sacking business and look where they are with Rodgers, miles ahead of us. Convince me that’s he’s better than Moyes and I’d argue he isn’t. A Moyes team wouldn’t have performed as we did at Goodison. He will get sacked I’m sure, but with loads of supporters still saying he’s s a top manager we’ll have to endure another season of mid-table mediocrity. And Haller must be wondering what he’s let himself in for. He’ll be gone by next summer unless Pelle goes first.
- I started supporting the Hammers when John Lyall was manager and felt devastated when he was sacked. I was not sorry to see BFS go but felt very sad when Slav was fired For that reason (not liking to see coaches fired) felt that Moyes should have been given another full season. Hopefully we will see Pelle turn performances around (like he did at the end of last season).
- Sacking a proven world class manager like Pellegrini would be insane. He has brought so much to West Ham in such a short space of time that we are getting carried away with ourselves. All teams go through difficult periods and come out the other side. He will sort it out that’s for sure. Meanwhile let’s just keep supporting the team and they will come good.