Before yesterday’s capitulation you’d have thought any list of candidates being prepared to replace Graham Potter was fanciful thinking: Scare mongering even. But after the drubbing at the hands of a modest Tottenham side- who were made to look like world beaters- Graham Potter’s days must surely be numbered.
Can’t keep on blaming the players. However bad some of them, the buck stops with Potter as this was his side, his preseason and his selection.
Theexpress.co.uk has produced their own truly shocking article listing ‘4 managers West Ham can turn to if Graham Potter sacked’ and seeing any of these at London Stadium would be a truly awful prospect. Is the club’s position so precarious and the board so inept as to think that – for three of the four at least – there would be any prospect of an improvement?
What West Ham need now is another Moyesiah. What the Daily Express suggests is the scary cocktail of either Jose Mourinho, Frank Lampard, Sean Dyche or Gareth Southgate.
Shoot me now. The only crumb of comfort I their whole article is that the Express admits that “one problem is that the jobless Southgate said last month when asked if he has plans to return to football any time soon: “Not at the moment, I’m very much enjoying my life.”
Thank heaven for that: That’s at least put that particular temptation out of David Sullivan’s way.
The danger of the groundswell of fan protest is that Sullivan, Brady and the board will see Graham Potter as their sacrificial lamb to chuck to the baying mob and thus doing what they are good at. Deflecting blame away from themselves as usual.
Appointing Sean Dyche or – worse- an inept Frank Lampard will only push the crisis a few months down the line. Seeing Mourinho as the best of a bad lot shows the predicament in which our famous club finds itself.
Dark days ahead, Hammers fans.
Before we think about a replacement coach, and given all that is going on at West Ham, who is qualified to carefully select a new coach capable of stopping the rot and then rebuilding and/or reorganizing the squad we have? Nobody on the board is qualified, so who else is there? All they can do is what everyone else on here is doing and revert to the usual list of failed managers because that eliminates thinking. Someone needs to be appointed to go out and look for a new prospect that is already showing signs of having the necessary skill set. Meanwhile, don’t change just for the sake of change.
Swap in Gary O’Neill for Frank Lampard and it’s exactly the list I would expect the 🤡to go for, all unemployed with no compensation required. I would have added Neal Warnock but I know the 🤡 wouldn’t pay the fifty quid to release him from his advisors role at Torquay United and thankfully Steve Cooper is managing in Denmark which automatically rules him out.
Why would anyone be surprised at the potential candidates given the board’s track record? It’s appalling.
Santo feels very likely given that he’s unemployed and was apparently once interviewed for the role.
I’ve love Mourinho until the season end. Players would certainly play
Well you can take Frank off the list as he’s employed
I wish Mark Noble was qualified
But it must be Nino, no question about it
The same Mark Noble who thought Diangana was a future star? No thanks. Being a decent player doesn’t automatically make a good manager
Which ones most desperate Martin ? The one that costs the least will be favourite. I’m surprised Nuno is not on that list, he’s only just been sacked.
Current odds:
Brendan Rodgers 3/1
Gareth Southgate 6/1
Gary O’Neil 15/2
Frank Lampard 8/1
Nuno Espirito Santo 10/1
Jose Mourinho 12/1
Kieran McKenna 12/1
Michael Carrick 12/1
Scott Parker 12/1
Lee Carsley 14/1
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 16/1
Sean Dyche 16/1
Steven Gerrard 18/1
Jesse Marsch 20/1
Chris Wilder 25/1
Liam Rosenior 25/1
David Moyes 28/1
Daniel Farke 33/1
John Mousinho 33/1
Ruud van Nistelrooy 33/1
Slaven Bilic 33/1
Paulo Di Canio 40/1
Mark Noble 50/1
Think potter will get three games up to next inter break only one is Mourinho he said wants a lower league club we would suit him perfect potter hasn’t got a clue spurs game proved it just stood there
Maybe we should keep the manager that we have and recruit specialist coaches who know what they are doing. Having the qualifications on bits of paper does not make a good coach on their own. Thoughts outside the box but focused on the job in hand are badly needed at our club.
Never seen Lampard as inept, Martin. There again, I saw many virtues in having Sam Allardyce as our manager.
Inept would certainly describe Avram Grant. Mediocre (as Potter) applied to Alan Curbishley. Dull and boring (life is too short) is the drawer into which Gareth Southgate can be consigned.
Jose could be a contender but just as Ferguson, his glory days are gone.
Always hoping for the best and valuing your opinion as ever. COYI
The real issue is that the current side is made up from choices that the current manager did not make. Tobido, Kilman, and then the Transfer Master class gets us Rodriguez, Wilson and Lame Duck Fullkrug. The Summer transfer window showed the ineptitude of the “West Ham” approach and the influence that David Sullivan has over transfers through his mate Will Salthouse. What we now have is a set of past it injury prone strikers (if you can call them that) Ward Prowse and Soucek that are one paced donkeys, and defence that will not head the ball. Put the managers playing a system that the players are not capable of delivering does not bode well. The question to be asked is would any manager want to take on this poison chalice, if they do its likely to be the cheap option from David Sullivan, and ones like Potter that have been out of work for a while. I cannot see the situation improving, only getting worse, and I believe that Relegation is almost a certainty if nothing changes, and that the Board are preparing for it financially, so they will stay with the Manager and hope that they can get out of the Championship and bounce back to the Premiership at the first attempt. The scenario of a fire sale in the January window as Relegation becomes a reality for the players and they all want to leave is a frightening prospect.
God help us if any of them took over from potter ones bad and the others are worse. Let’s get real we could have a manager that has wiped the floor with teams managed but it wouldn’t make any difference to being successful the reason Sullivan and Brady how can any manager achieve success at our club when just like potter they won’t be backed by the owners who seem hell bent on getting us relegated it’s a complete farce yes potter has been the one who picks the team but he can only work with what he’s got he was promised that he would have the funds available to bring in the quality players he wanted but yet again Sullivan lies while he and Brady pull the strings at the club we will never be successful the majority of us wanted a change from Moyes given the style of football we were having to watch each week but what could he do when Sullivan wouldn’t Agree to spend money on the players we needed back then
This story is definitely a pro BS ‘be careful what you wish’ for piece. There are obviously other candidates… most notably Nuno! Also Eden Terzic would have to be given some consideration. Then there is Fonseca (who we know Sullivan has been linked to in the past and even Silva at Fulham who I believe would walk for the right job given his past form and the fact he hasn’t been backed this summer.
But to be honest, I’d even take Dyche over the dross we’ve been put through over the the last 6 months….
Move Paqueta back to where he should be in a midfield with Magassa and Rodrigues, play Wilson or Fullkrug up front, with Areola or Fab in goal = a team that can perform at this level.
I am surprised that Michael Carrick is not on the list of candidates for the post of coach. He is young. He has good experience of working as a coach in troubled teams, bringing them out of crisis. Good statistics of victories. He has a strong character of a brave person.
Mourinho please at the very least hed liven things up
What about Nuno He isn’t mentioned
As for Sullivan not wanting him because he wants input into incoming players HE SHOULD HAVE ALL Managers should
No good to any team if they are buying 6 goalies an 5 defenders Is it ??
Then again Sullivan said that about Potter and look what happened there
For me the sooner he is replaced the better for everyone
His choice in players AND back room staff are a lot to be desired
Dark days indeed Marti . When you have no vision, no commitment to execution, wanting to do everything as cheaply as possible this is where you end up.
I’d take Nuno for no other reason than he wouldn’t pick JWP.
Potter’s going nowhere imo, Sullivan will wait, perplexingly, until our season’s goose is well and truly cooked before his and more importantly, Brady’s ‘yes man’ is gone.
The only thing that will change that is if they can deflect some of the currently escalating heat from themselves by means of a managerial diversion.
Mourinho please At the very least hed liven things up
1small crumb of comfort, the 4 possible replacements couldn’t be atleast any worse than potter and his coaches .
Agreed Martin – but the reality is that the only two managers in the Sully era who have served for at least three full seasons are BFS and Moyes – remember Sully is the one who appointed Steve Bruce at Birmingham
I’d be far happier with Southgate than any of the others mentioned, mourinho would be a disaster as he causes chaos everywhere he goes. Are we that good that a manager who promoted young players and consistently took the most underperforming national team to semis and finals is considered unworthy?
We all know, if Potter goes the next manager will come from Sullivan’s personal list of the top ten most useless managers !
Until this incompetent little buffoon is removed from any footballing decisions we are dead meat.
Nuno.