Yesterday’s failure against a very modest Charlton Athletic has certainly got fans and bloggers alike riled up in their anger – or anguish – over West Ham’s current predicament, going from pre-season favourites for automatic promotion to 16th in the second division table after consecutive games with points dropped.
It might be two games into the season but it’s now 40 games into Nuno’s managerial career at London Stadium: Evidently some have seen enough.
According to yesterdays SUN newspaper, fans weren’t slow in coming forward:
‘Sack him now’ – Raging West Ham fans get ‘NUNO OUT’ trending after horror defeat leaves them 17th in Championship”
Under pressure: Nuno Espirito Santo
Here, several of our own readers make their feelings crystal clear on West Ham’s predicament and managerial situation in a trio of guest posts:
“There is only one place to look if you have no discipline no shape, no speed, no plans. The Manager. Nuno has to go.
Who should take over ? There is a lot of talk about a lot of Managers who take ages to build a team like Howe. There is only one Manager who changes a team and makes them win and work in one season and that is Sean Dyche. Ask yourself who is the most successful at getting a club promoted in one season ? Who can take chaos and make it order and Dyche is the only name left ? Come on Board, hold the meeting and bring the man in, love him or hate him, he is the medicine the club needs.”
“Just want to say 3 names.
Scott Parker
Eddie Howe
Thomas Frank.
All out of work!
At least they seem to be able to motivate the players!”
“There were many of us that were prepared to give Nuno the benefit of the doubt last season but as he had more than enough games to get us safe. As others have said we only played anything resembling watchable football when Paco arrived. So Kretinsky did the worse thing possible by leaving him in place. The man seems one of the most unispirational managers I have ever seen.mHenis a demotivating force and has lost the changing room.
I would go for McKenna or Bellamy or even give Paco a go. Please no Scott Parker or Gareth Southgate or Thomas Frank”
Happy to post a selection of alternative viewpoints, let us know your own thoughts in the comments section. Just keep it courteous.
Champion athletes are often independent risk takers who trust their instincts and have their own, often good, ideas. Nuno has shown a complete inability to communicate with men like this and has lost the dressing room. Confidence is low and indecision, as shown in our key mistakes, has become prevalent. There’s no turning back and we need to find an adult replacement who can get the best from these men, not treat them like kids.
I was so looking forward to this season watching good attacking football, new players in and winning games but after the first 2 games I wish I’d never bought my season ticket. Watching the same old dross, slow build up, side to side and passing back, manager and team no passion or ideas how to win. I’ve been a supporter for 59 years and I’ve seen both good and bad times but what I’m seeing now is really sad to see. Nuno needs to go, us fans are not stupid we can see what’s wrong and we don’t want another season struggling for points and boring football.
I think Paco should have been offered the job But i would take Bellamy if he were available
or even Howe IF he would want to drop a league
Like so many other fans I gave Nuno the benifit of the doubt due to how late he came in AND how much damage Potter and lopetigui had already done But it took Paco to start turning it around
Nuno was useless last season til Paco came along, now Paco has left Nuno has been completely exposed. The answer is simple. Bye Nuno, Hola Paco.
If it were up to me then I’d have to weigh up two options. Option 1 would be about bringing in the right haracter of manager. It would be someone like Mourinho. Not him specifically but someone with that character which doesn’t accept compromise. It will create division, it will create tension but the mentality of this team needs leadership which knows no bounds and implements win at all costs vision.
Option 2 is to go completely different to that and something we haven’t done as far as I can remember. Promote the academy leadership team (i.e.potts and robson!) They know these players, and anyone who has seen that academy team play knows they all have a job and they know that job inside out. They are aggressive in the press, they know how to find their team mates, they are expressive and well drilled. That has come through great coaching. Get Potts and Robson on the managers seat to recreate that with our first team. The thought of having a WH side which has real identify in how it plays and doing it using a system we developed through our youth team would be something we could all get behind.
I think I’ve sold myself on option 2 🤣
Have commented before now, how 1st team should copy Academy style of play and below suggested Robson as an interim manager. You’ve convinced me, U21 coaches then.
Not mourinho style for me, too dour, although get your point about character and probably determination to get results.
Alternatives remain Bellamy, Paco.
I don’t think Kretinsky would employ Howe as he is seen as Staveley’s man. Sean Dyche? Really? Many of you on here didn’t want the successful football produced by a David Moyes side because his teams didn’t play with the style you wanted, now you want Dyche? give me a break!
Exactly this
We are unlikely to get decisive action here under an interim CEO , newly appointed Director of Football and brand new CFO all looking for direction from a Board which is in the middle of a very public civil war striving desperately to gain control of the Club , stadium and the land surrounding it.
17th in the Championship is all you need to know!!
SACK NUNO NOW!
Craig Bellamy for me!!
And me, he’ll get them firing for sure!
Please not Dyche. Promote from within give the gig to the academy manager
Club should move quickly & Koppen should prevent further sales of players whom others think have longer term potential such as perhaps Magassa. Have to ask opinion of academy coaches & Noble.
Bellamy because everyone surprised how good he has been in a difficult role, he loves the club & football.
Paco Jimenez & McKenna based solely on his reputation gained with Ipswich & what you can read about him.
Whoever thought up U21 style of quick passing football, transitioning quickly from defense to attack could be interim coach. Mark Robson I assume. That way he gets a chance to get to know what it is like to manage the 1st team and put down a marker for the future if he is interested.
Give him 10 league games and take a view then. I’ve got to say we played a very average team off the park yesterday and it wasnt for our left side of defence we’d have walked the game. We don’t need more unrest…10 games.
What are you watching?
Well most want Nuno gone it’s just who would in his place. Hope the board don’t drag their feet as they have in the past and the choices disappear before anything is done!
Sean Dyche or Scott Parker, both know how to get teams up, but with only a week left in the window it has to be done now, not in aseotember!
I think we need someone who has played for the club and gets the fans.
So for me Scott Parker
The players don’t become bad overnight, there is a point when I believe they stop believing the story and their levels drop, but when many of them all do it at the same time we see what happened yesterday. We now see what an impact Paco had, I doubt he’d come to us out of respect for his friend Nuno. During the summer I favoured Corberon and Motta, but these guys need a lot of time to assemble a squad, we don’t have that now, we find ourselves needing to make some quality additions in hope that Nuno or whoever is the next coach can make them click. I think we need a coach who knows the lower leagues and inspires from day 1 and ultimately gets unconditional respect, of the ones listed obviously Howe is the gold standard, McKenna and Bellamy close behind.
Parker & Dyche, do me a favour !
Need to get off the roundabout of these journeyman managers.
From the outside looking in he seems to fall out with players very easily but his biggest shortcoming is his inability to react in match situations at crucial times and he just does not learn from past mistakes.We have lost so many points when leading.We lost Disasi and the centre back partnership is a mistake waiting to happen just as it was before he arrived last season.
This may not seem very popular with the fanbase but I can see Thomas Frank being a better long term option for the club than say Scott Parker.
His failure at Tottenham for me was because he just wasn’t the right fit for them. The Spuds were not in the right place behind the scenes for him to succeed.
Frank got Brentford out of the championship and established them as a good PL side and will work better in a structure that Kretinsky is trying to implement at West Ham.
The current Brentford manager has already bettered Franks Brentford premier league record. Not for me but in all honesty I imagine 100 times better than Nuno
Don’t think he really cared about his WH job from day 1, crazy team selections, tactics & substitutions, clearly took back handers from Mendes re jacked up ‘wrong for us’ buys in Pablo & Taty, seems happy to upset players & lay them off with pay or sell them at a whim, and now very happy for our Copenhagen & Scottish transfer expert to bring in pace less players so when he is sacked & paid off he will say the recent poor transfers in & out where not his responsibility! Luno’s crazy actions has taken our pants down and he must be thinking ‘how many more crazy things can I do before these fools sack me & pay me off’
Nuno’s record without Paco Jemez is terrible. Anyone can see that through basic match stats. Beneath that his head doesn’t seem to have been right since he joined last year. Weird team selections – dropping the first choice fullbacks and inverting KWP and Scarles while playing Irvine and Soucek against Brentford and Leeds early was unforgivable. It was if he was asking to be sacked. The difference when Paco Jemez joined was as though we had a new manager and now we’re back to the first half of last season, 11 points from 16 games! The main concern is without the stability of proper ownership there isn’t the money to replace him. Personally I would go for Craig Bellamy or possibly Paco Jemez as both have some knowledge of the club. Kieran McKenna would be good but I think would prefer to avoid the current madhouse that is our club.
How long before the ‘he has 3 games to prove himself’ messages get issued. If our setup is improving at West Ham, then someone needs to make a decision to sack him. Problem is, who will make that decision?
Agreed, Mark, there’s an article coming about that very subject…
Dont think he ever took the job seriously from day 1, crazy team selections, tactics & substitutions, clearly took back handers from Mendes re jacked up buys for Pablo & Taty, still making crazy decisions & seems happy to upset & just lay off players and now happy for our Copenhagen & Scottish transfer expert to bring in pace less players so when he’s sacked and paid off he can say it was due to poor recent recruitment which was no longer his responsibility. Luno’s crazy actions has taken our pants down and he must be thinking ‘how many more crazy things can I do before these fools sack me’
There has and still is so much turmoil in the club , so it’s not surprising we are in the position we are.
A solution needs to be found urgently
Playing behind closed doors worked for us during covid , i wonder why?
No more journeymen please and no more ex-West Ham players. We need to find someone who moulds a team who have pride in the shirt and who will fight until the end for their club. Problem is I can’t think of one that good who is mad enough to take on the West Ham job. You’d have to be barking given the dogs dinner we have become. Which brings me to Di Canio 😂
Nuno has had quite long enough and just hasn’t deliivered. Neither his team selections or tactics are good enough. He should be sacked now and be replaced by Eddie Howe or Thomas Frank.
Bellamy