Tony Cottee has finally made it clear how he views the Hammers 2018/19 after struggling to make his mind up!

The former Hammers striker started off by welcoming Manuel Pellegrini as manager but then went public in claiming we would be better off perhaps having to have held on to David Moyes.

Now, however, after picking up seven points and being unfortunate not to get another at Brighton, he reckons everything is gonna be fine after all as things settle down!

Talking to the official site he said:  “I said publicly that I was worried after four games, with the team having not picked up a single point, but it’s also right to to remember that the club went through a transitional summer.

“There hasn’t been a summer where as much has changed in one go, in terms of manager, coaching staff and players. It was a real upheaval and a reason behind the slow start, for sure.

“Everyone was hoping things would start to gel and they did so following a great performance at Everton. The team had a slight setback at Brighton, but a draw would have been a fair result.

“If anyone was going to score the second goal, it was going to be us. If we’d got the draw, you could say the second eighth of the season was really good!”

And he added: “It’s really important that we really go for it in the Carabao Cup. We are long overdue an appearance in a cup final. It was disappointing to lose to Arsenal in the quarter-finals last year.

“Bearing in mind Tottenham are playing just 48 hours before the tie in the Premier League, this is a really good opportunity to get to another quarter-final but, that said, we need to concentrate on our own league form and pick up points too.

“We have Spurs and Manchester City coming up at home in the Premier League, so we need to keep on our game and get some points to get into the mid-table and have a bit of security.”

Looking at the squad he declared: “There have been glimpses from all the players, but nobody has done it consistently in all the games we have played, aside from Lukasz Fabianski in goal, who has been excellent.

“Felipe Anderson at times, Andriy Yarmolenko at Goodison, the two centre-backs have done well at times, but then others have been in and out so it’s hard to assess what they’ve done overall.

“History tells us that it takes time to settle in, though, and I believe they are now doing so.”