West Ham United’s depressing performance and defeat to Newcastle United could well be the final nail positioned ready on the coffin lid, merely awaiting Tottenham’s accumulation of a solitary point against Chelsea to bang the lid home tomorrow night and send the Hammers tumbling to the Championship.
The Irons’ woeful first half performance was live on Sky for all to see: The paucity of talent on display has been clearly highlighted as the reason the Hammers’ future is now balanced on a knife edge.
Taking no prisoners, several independent web sites and commentators have made it known exactly where the axe needs to fall on the West Ham squad. Typical of the criticism levelled at certain members of yesterday’s line up is todays givemesport.com:
“One player who needs to go is goalkeeper Mads Hermansen, whose performance was rated a 2/10 against Newcastle, with his form described as horrendous. Hermansen cost West Ham in the region of £15 million, but his form could cost them even more than that if they are relegated.
Hermansen – yesterday’s performance described as ‘horrendous’.
It looks set to be back-to-back relegations for the former Leicester goalkeeper, and he is a player West Ham need to get rid of in the summer transfer window.”
However, Hermansen is by no means the only Hammer to be held to account for a substandard performance. Team mate Todibo is also singled out for special mention amongst those who should be first out of the door come the summer.:
Jean-Clair Todibo is another who fans will be calling on to leave the club in the summer transfer window, but he was perhaps harshly treated against Newcastle.
The French defender was brought off in the first half so Nuno Espirito Santo could make a tactical change, switching from a back five to a back four.
Of greater concern, frankly, was Todibo’s smile and refusal to acknowledge or even shake Nuno’s had when he was hooked and exited the pitch. It smacks of poor attitude, which has been exhibited before and doubtless cited as an issue which has occurred repeatedly during his career.
It’ll be someone else’s problem soon enough. Likely they’ll both be out of the door well before the Championship season starts in August.
Most of the u21s will be eaten alive in the Championship.
They are still maturing and learning the game.
We’ll see what’s left of the first team in August.
The article on GiveMeSport is very poor and neither player deserved to be criticised in that way while others who clearly did not put in any effort are ignored. Hermansen is going to be around whatever division we are in and as for Todibo yes he will probably go if we are in Championship and will be snapped up by a big team. His season was ruined thanks to Traore. He was easily our best central defender before Traore managed to create the melee against Chelsea. The partnership with Disasi was looking very good and could have formed the base to a few clean sheets which might have kept us up. Yes Mavropanos raised his game when given the chance, but players in terms of their performance ultimately revert to mean and I doubt whichever club he is at next season he will be anything other than mediocre.
There will undoubtedly be a lot of coming and goings regardless of the division we are in, but the two most supporters want to see go are Sullivan and Nuno. The latter is inevitable, but sadly the former highly unlikely.
Who is going to buy them plus Killman the one to be first out of the door should be SULLIVAN the man has taken us for fools
Leave your opinions until after the final game we are not finished yet . This is my77th season so you can imagine how I feel . Stay positive until next sunday
Oh Brian, would that you are correct. My 56 seasons pales into insignificance.. I suspect Tuesday night will see it done and dusted.
We’d need three results all to go our way now, Tottenham to lose at Chelsea and at home to Everton and us to beat Leeds. It’s very odds against that happening.
Credit to Leeds, Forest and Tottenham, they all turned their forms around when it counted.
We turned our form around too, we lost three on the bounce when we couldn’t afford to do that.
Todibo is too good for the Championship and he’ll want to leave for a decent club that does not employ managers (that is 3 in a row now) who dabble with a backline with eccentric notions, especially in the penultimate game of a season.
T. was out of position that is true, but has hardly played and rusty, without the inherent understanding CBs need – exactly as before. Disasi was out of position as well which compounded the error, but most of all none of the 3 was acting as sweeper to cover and that is a 3rd error down to lack of preparation, clear instruction and coaching.
The notion of modern managers that you can switch CBs in and out, swap them around without proper organisation nor leadership on the pitch to pull them back into position, is totally false. WHU have proven this over 2 seasons now.
He did not shake his hand because he was fed up at being the fall guy of another defensive fiasco.
At least he will leave for a decent fee and is a player of quality that will have takers in Europe.
I think you are spot on
These players were put in positions by Nuno.
The situation that makes them look bad should never occurred.
4-4-2 was the worked formation which proved a success most times.
Wilson should never had started and come on after 60 mins when he’s been most effective.
Nuno is like a Jekyll and Hyde manager never knowing what’s his reasoning.
Agree he’s very non emotional when he should be more energised.
Obviously never heard of saying ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it’s.
Tinkering is his thing but defence was sorted and should have just tinkered with attack.
Sullivan and a very poor bench has hindered Nuno’s choices.
All this accumulated into possibly a related whu.
I agree and for my part Bowen can join them he seemed to be jogging around the pitch yesterday. I would guess we will need a complete new team next year probably give the under 21’s a go.