.png)
2 hours ago
1
WEST HAM'S caller epoch is yet to instrumentality off.
After bringing successful Julen Lopetegui and backing him with £127.5million successful summertime signings - determination was each close to expect much than this.
6
6
The Hammers are 14th, could beryllium overtaken by Everton with different decision this play and person shown fewer signs of improving.
There are mixed messages implicit Lopetegui's future. West Ham's owners person ne'er been trigger-happy erstwhile it comes to dismissing managers and bash not similar admitting they were wrong.
But fans person not warmed to the caller authorities and adjacent the astir diligent of clubs would beryllium tested if this continues.
SunSport runs done however it has each gone truthful wrong...
DEFENSIVE ISSUES
West Ham's biggest occupation past play was their leaky defence, conceding a club-record 74 Premier League goals nether David Moyes.
Money was spent to effort and hole the problem.
Max Kilman arrived from Wolves for £40m, Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined successful a £15m woody from Manchester United earlier Jean-Clair Todibo was signed connected indebtedness with a presumption to a £35m woody adjacent summer.
All are individually bully players, but they person struggled to gel truthful acold portion Wan-Bissaka has been utilized successful a assortment of positions.
CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERS
The Hammers person shipped 19 goals successful 10 Premier League games, the aforesaid arsenic odds-on relegation favourites Southampton.
Conceding astatine this complaint they volition extremity the play having fto successful 72 - hardly the betterment expected aft important investment.
STODGY MIDFIELD
The problems astatine the backmost bash not prevarication solely with the defenders.
West Ham person 1 of the astir immobile midfields successful the Premier League.
When not suspended oregon injured, Edson Alvarez struggles to support up with play.
Tomas Soucek has been a good servant for the nine but should person been improved upon immoderate clip ago.
6
The Czech is simply a superb squad enactment but is excessively constricted a footballer to beryllium a regular success.
Guido Rodriguez, a escaped signing from Spanish broadside Real Betis, has made small affirmative interaction - mistakes being his astir memorable moments.
And with each infinitesimal Carlos Soler plays, it becomes harder to enactment retired wherefore truthful overmuch precocious effort was enactment into shifting James Ward-Prowse to Nottingham Forest conscionable to bring him in.
The deficiency of dynamism and legs successful the mediate is making it casual for teams to bypass and complaint consecutive astatine an unprotected backmost four.
POOR SIGNINGS
Tim Steidten, who won the powerfulness conflict with Moyes implicit the summer, was fixed astir eventual powerfulness successful the transportation window.
Lopetegui was not exclusively his pick, but galore of the players were.
Rodriguez is astir apt the astir baffling, but others rise large questions too.
Niclas Fullkrug appears to beryllium the latest successful the enactment of failed West Ham strikers.
6
It whitethorn look harsh fixed helium has been constricted to conscionable an hr of Premier League play owed to wounded truthful acold - but it was hardly an inspirational signing.
The German arrived, for £27.5m, the incorrect broadside of 30 and with a elaborate wounded grounds leaving different manager to trust connected Michail Antonio and Danny Ings done the middle.
A bungled effort to motion Aston Villa's Jhon Duran, who has 8 goals successful 16 appearances this season, lone makes it look worse.
Areas intelligibly lacking were ne'er decently addressed.
LACK OF LEADERSHIP & DISCIPLINE
Not each of this tin beryllium enactment astatine the doorway of the manager oregon higher-ups.
Players are the ones tasked with going retired and putting successful a displacement each play and fewer person done that successful a West Ham garment this season.
Mohammed Kudus and Alvarez are some suspended this play - the Mexican aft his 2nd reddish paper of the season.
There is simply a deficiency of a beardown mentality and wide enactment wrong the squad.
Sources accidental the dressing country has go a quiescent 1 successful the lack of Declan Rice's enactment oregon Mark Noble earlier him.
6
Antonio is simply a large quality but not erstwhile it comes to leadership, portion caller skipper Jarrod Bowen prefers to bash his talking connected the pitch.
Perhaps the biggest occupation is Lucas Paqueta.
The Brazilian, awaiting a proceeding for his spot-fixing charges, has looked disinterested for astir of the year.
It is understandable fixed his situation, but West Ham are inactive paying his wages and expect idiosyncratic who was precocious valued astatine £85m to beryllium delivering acold more.
Coaches person noticed a corporate deficiency of mentality amongst the squad, thing which indispensable beryllium addressed.
NO STYLE OR INSPIRATION
The extremity of the Moyes epoch was mostly brought astir owed to a tendency for fans to spot a acold much charismatic benignant of play.
Lopetegui was ne'er seen arsenic a full football appointment, but players and fans alike person struggled to place a wide program of onslaught from the Spaniard.
They are not sitting choky and counter-attacking nor going for expansive, ascendant football.
6
The muddle leads to inconsistent performances and a reliance connected idiosyncratic brilliance - which has been successful abbreviated supply.
Lopetegui is struggling to get the champion retired of Bowen and - erstwhile he's not suspended for lashing retired astatine Tottenham players - Kudus.
The manager's deadpan attack successful beforehand of the media does not assistance either.
The deficiency of spark means fans are struggling to lukewarm to the erstwhile Wolves boss.
HOW LONG HAS HE GOT
This volition beryllium the question connected galore fans' lips.
A dense decision to Everton connected Saturday and it could beryllium that Lopetegui struggles to spot retired the weekend.
But determination is an insistence that the committee stay down their man, though each stay frustrated by the mediocre performances.
There is simply a feeling they person not reached the lows of the 2nd fractional of past season, but get immoderate person to it and a alteration volition much than apt beryllium made.
West Ham person worst stadium successful Premier League
By Andy Dillon
All that has been achieved nether David Moyes has made West Ham hide that they person by acold the worst location crushed successful the full Prem.
A stadium wholly unfit for staging regular shot matches.
One that tin enactment connected large European nights erstwhile the fans person electrified their voices successful the adjacent Carpenters Arms earlier kick-off.
But 1 which drains your psyche during regular location games against the likes of Burnley oregon Everton.
A location crushed wherever elephantine trampolines abstracted fans from the action.
With impermanent seating and scaffolding trying to bring the players and assemblage closer.
When West Ham are playing severely but winning, issues with the rented stadium are pushed aside.
If they are playing severely and losing, the full festering sore surfaces and the vexation volition beryllium aimed erstwhile much astatine president David Sullivan and vice-chair Karren Brady.
It wasn’t agelong agone that fans were invading the pitch, that 8,000 protested against the owners, that Sullivan was deed successful the oculus by a coin thrown from the crowd. Moyes has been an effectual quality shield with his consistent, if not wholly pretty, marque of success.
This is what incoming brag Lopetegui has to contend with.
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·