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West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 16 Aug 2025, 17:07
by muskie
Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.
Watch this space.
I think we're fucked.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 13:39
by nychammer
The Crying shame is that we have the semblance of a squad more than capable of staying up. Jimmy eventually getting to his best, Bowen back at it, the new signings, Fernandez, Wilson - more than enough to stay up.
The problem is the manager. How many games we been ahead and we thrown it away with poor if not plain suicidal tactics.
To Sullivan and co: If Nuno stays we WILL go down, we are heavily fucked. This old dog ain't learning any new tricks. If we get Harry (yes i know....) or someone else (and I dread to think who else Sullivan would sanction) in NOW then we have a small chance because no other cսnt throws a game like we did yesterday after we've just played out best half of football in years
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 13:17
by Westham67
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑01 Feb 2026, 12:52
Have said several times you don’t hold on to a lead by adding defenders
That just means you sit too deep and wait to get beaten as the defenders get in each others way
Put on ball winners like Magassa & Potts in midfield and try and get some control while breaking up play
Basic stuff which hasn’t registered with Nuno after endless points thrown away again & again
That's what happened with their winning goal, the ball came through a crowd of players
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 12:52
by Fauxstralian
Have said several times you don’t hold on to a lead by adding defenders
That just means you sit too deep and wait to get beaten as the defenders get in each others way
Put on ball winners like Magassa & Potts in midfield and try and get some control while breaking up play
Basic stuff which hasn’t registered with Nuno after endless points thrown away again & again
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 11:35
by Manuel
A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in games over the past three months.
Absolutely spot on, in a nutshell. And what happened to his counter attacking football when sitting back?? We haven't seen it.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 11:00
by Gary Strodders shank
We get ourselves in winning positions and then self destruct as teams come at us.
We sit to deep and invite pressure
The bottle goes basically and the manager is the biggest culprit with his defensive substitutions.and then we lose the outlet to relieve the pressure and get us up the pitch
The penny never seems to drop with Nuno and we don't have the characters on the pitch to break things up with some dark arts or the like when. teams are starting to overrun us.
A decent manager doesn't lose from the winning positions we have been in games over the past three months.
We simply do not have the nous to get over the line in these games.
We need a leader on the pitch and a coach that knows the way to win games when ugly.
The recruitment is nowhere near good enough and the way we defend set pieces way short of the standard required.
We have to score three to win games as we always concede and once one goes in we invite the opposition to come at us with our negative tactics.
An absolute shambles of a club and an embarrassment.
Will they ever learn
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 09:56
by Far Cough UKunt
Golambeckis?
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 09:42
by nychammer
Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.
YES - exactly. Teams who survive relegation fights simply dont do this. Not Forest. Not Leeds.
We're fucked.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 09:33
by southbankbornnbred
Despite a slight uplift in form since the very worst days of Pottertegui, I still think we’re going down - because, as others have said, we keep shooting ourselves in the foot and blowing decent positions.
Not taking at least a point after being 2-0 up into the second half yesterday, blowing a late point against Forest, putting in such an abysmal performance against Wolves (one of the worst sides I’ve ever seen in the Premier League)…it’s a lengthy list. And, frankly, you just can’t do that regularly across an entire season.
It’s frustrating because this is not a great league this season - there are many bang average, or worse, sides. And more points have been there for the taking. But we’re now 5/6 points adrift of safety and we have just 14 games left.
Any more of this self-inflicted shite and our fate is sealed.
The worst thing about Todibo’s sending off is three more games with Kilman - a walking catastrophe of a defender. I’d be tempted to bin him off for the kid with the Scrabble-winning surname.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 09:00
by Fauxstralian
Another game like Forest & Villa at home where we should have taken something and ended up beaten
That will relegate you
Burnley away then Man U & Bournemouth at home … has to be 7pts at least
Burnley is an absolute must win obviously
Think we have about a 20-25% chance of survival and that’s being optimistic
Feb 1st & no centre half. Utter insanity & now Todibo missing 3.
Sullivan’s genius gets what it deserves again
Meanwhile the woman who almost destroyed Birmingham City and is finishing the job on West Ham is back on tv being presented as a business expert
Irony is dead
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 01 Feb 2026, 03:19
by Monsieur merde de cheval
I'm genuinely impressed with some of the optimists..(yidfoot aside)
I used to be like that....
Its over ...we will mixing it with the likes of the Preston North End once again.
And Wall , they're cocky now but they will bottle the play offs ...they always do.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 23:16
by nychammer
twoleftfeet wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 22:43
I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley
4-1
As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
Since when has Nuno held his nerve. If we go one up at half time we’ll come out with some backs to the wall bollocks second half. When have we not ?
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:52
by Mad Dog
twoleftfeet wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 22:43
I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley
4-1
As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
Id rather we played with 11.
But if that 11th is kilman, maybe not
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:49
by Westham67
Many had the Man U match as a right off, and that will be the end of Todibos ban
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:46
by Westham67
We have beaten Spurs and Sunderland and nearly got a result at Chelsea. The centre back position is the issue now; it will do Kilman a favour playing away from home at Burnley
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:43
by twoleftfeet
I’ll say it again , we will destroy Burnley
4-1
As long as Nuno holds his nerve with the same team minus Todibo.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:36
by nychammer
twoleftfeet wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 22:26
We will destroy Burnley
Don’t set yourself up. It’s not worth it.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:26
by twoleftfeet
We will destroy Burnley
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 22:22
by nychammer
Monsieur merde de cheval" wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 21:43
Sir Alf" wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 20:43
Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo. We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs.
If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .
oh they're turning us over make no mistake.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 21:43
by Monsieur merde de cheval
Sir Alf" wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 20:43
Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo. We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs.
If Burnley get any kind of result at the mackems , they'll be right up for our spineless heroes.
We've well and truly fucked ourselves tonight...and the manner of the defeat is the killer .
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 21:36
by Monsieur merde de cheval
nychammer wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 19:58
Westham67 wrote: ↑30 Jan 2026, 03:24
Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic
Forest will batter palarse tomorrow..and Savile's mob will batter Forest on Friday night.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 20:43
by Sir Alf
Losing Todibo for 3 games ended any chance of escape imo. We will now lose at Burnley with Kilman and Stavros as our CBs.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 20:20
by Westham67
nychammer wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 19:58
Westham67 wrote: ↑30 Jan 2026, 03:24
Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic
Relegation is only academic when it is mathematically impossible to stay up
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 20:17
by nychammer
If we we were going to stay up we had to find the fortitude and character to win that today given where we were at HT. Given where we are, just winning what look like the remaining winnable games is not enough, and we'll probably find a way to fuck some of those up too.
Today tells me its over. I don't see other teams collapsing. They will do what they need to do.
The sooner we can just get it over with the better.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 20:03
by Sir Alf
As Stubbo says 18 points lost from winning positions but root cause = most goals conceded in the division. Although defence is a problem, you defend as a team. Nuno needed to refresh and crowd out midfield to stop the tide and crosses or source of their attacks. Potts and Magassa no longer used.
Re: West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread
Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 19:58
by nychammer
Westham67 wrote: ↑30 Jan 2026, 03:24
Forrest has two Europa Cup play-off games to play in February
we've got an 8 point gap to overcome when they beat palace tomorrow. It is academic