There are other ‘give-away’ signs as to a team’s performance apart from the league table position. If West Ham Chairman David Sullivan is in any doubt as to the severity of the issues surrounding the Hammers team and the future of head coach Julen Lopetegui then statistics carried by bbc.com make the point abundantly clear. Indeed, it is staring everybody – owners, fans, players, head coach, straight in the face and doesn’t need embellishment:
“West Ham have conceded at least once in each of their past 14 Premier League home games, the longest ongoing run of any side, and the Hammers’ longest ever in the competition. They last failed to keep a clean sheet in more consecutive top-flight home games between December 1964 and October 1965 (16).
West Ham have conceded 15 goals in the opening 15 minutes of Premier League games so far in 2024, the most any side have conceded in a single calendar year in the competition. Five of those have come so far this season, a joint-league high, along with Ipswich.”
Fourteen games without a clean sheet. Our worst run in sixty years. Ten of them under a new head coach. The depressing thing? I don’t expect Lopetegui to even attempt to fix this against Everton despite it being – allegedly – a must win game.
Can you imagine the attitude of any previous West Ham Manager? Be it the aforementioned Moyes, Allardyce, Bilic, even Pellegrini? Don’t concede in the first half, guys. Maybe keep those full backs ‘defending’ for the first hour? A nice solid Allardyce ‘don’t concede’ first half would make a refreshing change.
I’d quite like to be bored just for a while knowing that we were getting harder to beat instead of watching chaos unfold again. Doesn’t mean I’m a Moyes recidivist but just – any damned’ Premier League manager worth his pay knows to set his team up not to concede early on.
At least there’d be a plan.
I don’t really understand the mathematics of this ….or am I just being thick….we’ve only played 10 league games and two league cup games …. so my calculations I make that 12 not 14 games…. and in those twelve games haven’t we had two clean sheets …against Crystal Palace in the league 9 games ago and Bournemouth as well in the cup?
Call time on this madness. We are an English Premier League club and if we want to continue and be successful, we need an English Premier League manager, coach and team. Plead with Frank Lampard to join us and lead us to be the best team we can be.
Super Frank has all the credentials to manage West Ham United. We can become our Dream Team.
COYI
Can someone ban Taffy for continually plugging Frank Lampard as our saviour please 🙏
If 🏴 coaches are so good Taffy, why is it there are so few managing in the Prem and the National team?
I’m being polite …..but jog on you mug! 🤣
Wind up merchant or surname Lampard?
Until 🇪🇸🤡 tells AWB he is not Payet we are going to concede and get battered most weekends!
The longer he stays in charge the more likely we will be relegated. No clue as to how he wants to play, no speed in the team just seems like another lost opportunity to push on. Brighton and Brentford can do it without spending what West Ham have just shows an alarming miss management from top to bottom
Get lampard in, we,ll soon have more reasons to book him again
we know he’s Spanish Matt. 🤡 will do just fine, we know you don’t like him. are you one of those who refers to to Fullkrug as “the German” as well? you know, like calling someone a “c#^t” but adding the colour of their skin in front of it 😒👎 think about what you do
If data and stats mattered at West Ham, Tim would’ve appointed a progressive coach to replace Moyes.
🇪🇸🤡 is what we got instead 🤦♂️
Our 🇨🇿 shareholder quite rightly secured Tim to stop the £100’s of millions we wasted on players before he invested in the club.
🇪🇸🤡 is taking us only one way ⬇️
Under the impression that Lopetegui was Sullivan’s appointment. No compensation and PL experience would point to that.
Steidten was the one that flew in Amorim. Which got him banned from the training ground in Moyes final days. He is also said to have liked Hurzeler, but others at the club were concerned about him being too young.
Steidten will likely leave shortly (if rumours are to be believed). The club will still be run that same way it has been under the current ownership.
The next appointment will no doubt again be someone unemployed, aged 55-65 and be considered sufficiently ‘experienced.’ Only one person authorising these appointments.
And like our dreams they fade and die 💀