“There are a lot of different reasons to analyse. We cannot concede three goals in every game. Unfortunately for us we are doing the wrong things.”
Manuel Pellegrini
To say I was stunned by Manuel Pellegrini’s after match comments (above) would be utterly absurd. They may be the most ridiculous AND LOST I have ever heard from any manager at any time, anywhere, any place.
And now there can be no further delay – the board has to sack him even if it means bringing in a caretaker for the Southampton game and beyond until we can get the man we really need.
Terry Westley, Chris Hughton, Kevin Keen. I don’t mind but there can be no further delay because it can get no worse!
Don’t ask who it may or may not be. I don’t have a clue but for sure, for certain, definitely, Manuel Pellegrini has to go and NOW!
I opened my eyes this morning and immediately pulled the duvet over my head again – sometimes words are useless. Who wants to get up on a morning like this after the night before!
Then I read something on the Claret and Hugh forum which suddenly summed up my feelings perfectly so my thanks are due to Wayne Bradley who had this comment:
Wayne Bradley The sad thing for me is I think Pelle is a very decent man but he looks like a pensioner in the shops who has forgotten where he lives as he looks about him. He looks hurt and clueless as to what to do. For his own health they should let him go, work a deal out where neither side loses face. Go before the Saints game because if we lose that under him the fans, the board the press, are all going to turn on him.
Social media is full of obscenities, hatred, spite, and vicious malice directed towards the first scapegoat some fans can find but Wayne has nailed it – spot on with compassion and kindness.
A firm decision has be made now by the board – there can be no defence made for delay.
The decision to let Manuel Pellegrini leave has to be made… it’s the honest thing to do, it’s the right thing to do, it’s the compassionate thing to do…it’s the ONLY thing to do!
Its widely accepted that you, Whetstone and this site are very pro board.
You’ve hit a new low with this, doing the boards dirty work….
Yeah funny how that always crops up when we are on a bad run. Your “logic” defies any sort of rational explanation so just go and get some rage therapy or look up the meaning of the word.
We’ve seen this before with these owners. Slav looked like condemned man for weeks before he went as the side went from worse to worse. Great to see, by the way, his revival at a properly run club. Pelle is on paper by far the most successful manager ever to come to West Ham (49.9% wins). He has not suddenly become a rubbish manager. But he looks a spent force…Something ain’t right at West Ham.
He is finished but we have incompetent owners who are just letting it drag on expecting some kind of miraculous recovery. Believe me it will not happen. That team was stripped of all confidence last night and stood off Arsenal as if they were playing world beaters.2nd half was as bad as I have seen from a Hammers team.
49.9% win ratio is his career average via Wikipedia – at West Ham it is 37.7% (23/61).
When u think we got rid of Slav quick enough when things were going wrong,look at him now.
People has to go .Bring back Moyes.
The continuing procrastination just takes us another day closer to relegation. You are a money driven man Mr Sullivan, pull the trigger before we pass the point of no return and potentially become the next Sunderland or Coventry City.
Change it now
B4 it’s too late
If you shop in pound land what do you expect, it is not all Pellegrini,s fault. A net spend of £25 million in the summer when realistically you need to spend £75 – £100 million just to stand still. I honestlyly feel that the owners have taken us as far as they can and should if as they say love the club sell it at a realistic price. Also please please can we say goodbye to Karen Brady, she is an embarrassment with her column in the Sun newspaper could you see this sort of thing happening when Ron Greenwood or John Lyle were at the club. She is an Arsenal fan which is fair enough but has no attachment to West Hamg
I was prepared to give him up to Southampton to turn things around but last night vs a vulnerable and weak Arsenal confirms we are doomed under Pellegrini. The Chelsea win was an aberration. Get Kevin Keen to take the reins for Saturday..can’t get any worse….giving us 2 weeks to get a permanent manager.
I have been attending matches for 45 years and am sorry to say that I and many others left the ground earlier than ever before.
I am hearing all around me that that supporters are not renewing their season tickets next year and regrettably my family won’t be.
The amount of money coming in to the game is being channelled in the wrong direction. It should be making season tickets half the price of what they are.
Instead we have to stomach Pellegrini draining £8 million a year from our club for incompetently managing our team.
On his blog of four days ago, Sean Whetstone suggested letting Pellegrini stay and sort it out. After all, John Lyall (arguably our greatest manager) took us down to the old division two. The board kept faith with him. Subsequently he got us promoted, won the FA cup and took us to our highest finish ever. Likewise Sir Alex Ferguson was on the verge of getting the sack, when he managed to turn things around there and looked what happened.
Having said this, Spurs, Everton and Arsenal have changed their managers in recent weeks and look at the difference! I’m not one who cares to keep changing every couple of years, but maybe there is a stronger case for it this time. After all, Pellegrini’s team is performing worse than Bilic’s did at the end (who was sacked after just 11 games) and has had more to spend, more choice in who to bring in (including the director of football), paid a lot more AND didn’t have all the baggage of moving to a new (so-called) football stadium!
Personally I have wanted Pellegrini to turn things around and stay with us for the season but even I am losing patience.
If he has lost the dressing he has to go, I think he has one last chance against Southampton but I am not a great believer in the management merry go round
A result against Southampton looks beyond us , and even if there was one it’s only papering over the cracks as was the Chelsea result .
He has to be sacked now – I’ve been an admirer of MP till now – but no more .
If he is as decent as people say he is he would resign , taking no payoff but making sure his staff are looked after in that regard .