Sky Sports journalist Kaveh Solhekol has confirmed that West Ham owners are quickly losing faith in Manuel Pellegrini.
Solhekol told his 200,000 Twitter followers this morning “West Ham owners losing faith in manager Manuel Pellegrini. Discussions ongoing about whether he’s right man for the job. Last night’s performance nowhere near good enough. They desperately don’t want to have to change managers mid season but real concerns now about performances.”
West Ham travel to the south coast to play Southampton at St Mary’s on Saturday and the game is considered by many as a must win for the 67-year-old Chilean should he want any chance of saving his job.
The Hammers are just one point off the relegation zone in 16th place in the Premier League table and a loss to 18th place Southampton could see West Ham drop in the relegation zone for Christmas day. With the Liverpool game postponed the Hammers are not scheduled to play again until Boxing day against Crystal Palace giving the West Ham able time to replace the manager should he not get a result this weekend.
No ****!
West ham fans have lost faith in the board a long time ago they are neither competent or able or unwilling to invest in club to a sufficient degree. We deserve better
It should have gone beyond ‘real concerns’ (many of us had those during last season) & ‘losing faith’. Those both suggest there are still reasons to expect a turnaround. The owners are shipwrecked sailors hanging on to a sinking ship & hoping something will turn up to save them. A draw here, a win there & those pesky fans will shut up & swallow another load of old dross. If Pellegrini does not go now it will demonstrate complete contempt for the supporters & total disregard for the club. There is no way back from this & the owners have to realise this is one bad decision that fans will not learn to live with.
Is there a possibility that Pellegrini has something in his contract that says he can be sacked without compensation after a certain amount of games into a season if we find ourselves in the relegation places? Could that be why the owners are giving him time? Just a question. It does seem (and i can understand why) that there is a reluctance to part company with the boss right now due to the financial implications of doing so. That money would surely be removed from the jar marked ‘player purchase funds’.
How many times does it have to be drilled into the owners heads.Pellegrini is not going to produce you a miraculous upturn in form.His inept tactics and stubbornness to change a formation that does not work means he has to go now,not next week or the week after that.You arej just delaying the obvious and damaging your own fragile standing at the club.
Us SUPPORTERS lost faith after Oxford we turn up week in week out because we are WHU..the Dave’s have taken us as far as they can and thanks for bailing us out in 2010 but come on all can see it’s getting to the END OF THE ROAD now.with MP and his staff .it ain’t frigging rocket science. .if 57.000 WHU see it every home game and you cant. .go to spec save..being very polite there
Why wait MP clearly won’t change formation e.g. 4-4-2 or 3-5-1 and don’t see why not as the current 1 up has not worked . Arsenal just found space between our players & could have walked it in. The players must also take blame they are not putting in the required work rate don’t we question why .
I mean 3-5-2 lol
Well said Hammer64,,couldn’t agree more
It’s clear to me that most business owners would want to back their recruitment decision. Indeed instability amongst the leadership team rarely reaps dividends. However, we played some decent football last season and turned in some great results but have failed to evolve. We’re like a newly promoted team suffering from second season syndrome as teams have worked us out.
Sadly it seems that MP is out of time. Arsenal were there for the taking and we shipped yet another 3 goals against a very poor team.
Time to risk the change in management and try and get someone in who has a plan to shape and grow the team in both skills and tectics.
Why has anyone ever thought he was a good manager. Anyone can win the league with hundreds of millions. He was never gunna do anything here with nothing.
Getting rid of Pellegrini now will be cheaper than getting relegated.
The value of the business will plummet & SuGo will take a massive hit.
Well ; there’s a surprise . Taken too long already .