07 Jan 2026 21:43:32


Joyfull has written an article entitled, The Championship Drop and What It Means for West Ham United

1.) 07 Jan 2026
07 Jan 2026 22:36:30
Good article Joyfull and thank you for taking the time to do it.

As a discussion point, you list the players to be sold in a fire sale but realistically would they all need to be sold? Bowen will want to play in the PL as will Paqueta and possibly Todibo and AWB but isn’t it likely that Fernandes, Mougassa and Diop could be retained giving us a better chance of 1st time return?

2.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 06:41:16
I second that. I do feel the current ownership is now aggravating the fan base so much that even the more loyal fans will give the club a miss until they go. I believe many already have. I don’t put myself in the more diehard group but I won’t be struggling to go every other game until they are gone. Crowds are going to plummet.
I think you are probably right regarding the players that will go. I’d like to see Magassa and Fernandez stay but Fernandez left Southampton when they dropped but maybe he would consider staying.

I would make Potts the new captain or maybe Fernandez if he stayed. But one thing where we are in a decent position is that our youth side is very handy and many have already shown their ability by being loaned. I would love to see them make the backbone of our side. I do feel we need another more progressive and enthusiastic manager but all depends on if Sullivan either goes or gives the power over to professionals (highly unlikely) . While Brady and him remain in place our demise will continue.

3.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 08:14:20
We have a dressing room that's got, or has had, too many bad apples which need to be gotten rid of. That was the first thing arteta did at arsenal getting rid of abameyang and Co.

3 managers this year and each of them has had issues with the players. Lop got punched, Potter had a raging argument and now seemingly Nuno has lost the dressing room.

Too many bad players with huge egos that should have never been bought. Weve had 3 decent managers this season and each one has had problems with this group of players. Little wonder we can't win a game of football as a team because they are not a team.

Suffice to say, no matter who the manager is, things will not change until the poison is gone

4.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 08:20:44
I think the likelihood on any good player staying, is tiny, the loyalty factor these days, hardly exists, WH cannot pay premier wages in the championship

There are others I’ve not even mentioned, like Soucek, captain of Czech, never going to stay, so the exodus will be closer to a dozen

In a situation like this, All the WH players will have some kind of relegation. Clause in their contract, forcing the club to part with them

That means taking less money in a forced sale, rather than getting true market value

If you like it’s a sickening rerun of 2003, when good players, were sold for nothing

Unfortunately there’s nothing you can do about it, that’s football, you can blame Nuno, Potter Loppy, Moyes. Bilic, whomever you want

They are all just passing through, the demise of WH is down to one man only Sullivan, Mrs Brady is just a handsomely paid mouthpiece

The only question to answer, will be, Will Sullivan go all out trying to return WH to the premier, or will he try to sell up?

5.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 10:30:26
Even if we came back up, i doubt we would stay up not under Sullivan he's clueless.

Joyful you mentioned our Waterloo moment under him was when we were in top 4 and Moyes wasnt backed in January, then the season after when we were going strong in europa league and again not backed in January, you can go back to the last season at Upton park, we had Lanzini, Payet, and i'm sure we were top 4 at the half way point and sullivan again didn't spend. Waited until the summer and diluted the squad with rubbish, cheap deals and free agents, Nordviet, Feghouli, Calleri, Ajeti.

Point is its never been 1 moment, he's had numerous moments to kick on, show some ambition, stabalise the club, but every time he gets it wrong, the amount of clubs that have taken over us in a short space of time is crazy, whether due to competence, ambition or both, they capitalize we dont.

The stadium move wasnt about ambition and challenging it was about increasing revenues so Sullivan didn't have to put his own money in when he couldn't charge the club huge interest anymore. Just keep us in league and hope someone matches his ridiculous asking price for the club.

We need new owners and a purpose build stadium or we are done.

6.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 14:05:50
It almost feels like we need to be relegated in order to instigate ownership change and beyond. Staying up will just ensure that these incompetent and greedy owners stay in situ. I never want us to lose however the thought of relegation potentially speeding up Sullivans demise does make it an easier pill to swallow.

We just have to be prepared for things potentially getting a lot worse, like Sunderland endured, before they get better

7.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 14:09:37
I think its known universally how the West Ham owners are disliked (trying to be diplomatic) .

Read a great article today about how relegation wouldn't be so bad after all, if only to get rid of Sullivan and Co and start again

Yeah it would hurt for a while, but I tell you that they sell up, it will be more than worth it

8.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 14:13:27
AI, that is a post with which I wholeheartedly agree. Well said.

9.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 15:26:08
It is possible as Dabber says that things may get worse before they get better. Because we must owe a lot on players bought the last couple years. Then we have the likes of cornet and JWP on long expensive contracts.
Everyone can see how many empty seats there were there the other night that is only going to get worse.
I think the thing that has always held us up is the price that Sullivan wants to sell up for with his greed, and the reality of the actual market price what the club is really worth.

Even selling at a lower price he must have still made a fair profit on his investment?
We could end up like Queens Park in Scotland who play their home games at Hampden in front of of a few hundred fans in our case a few thousand.

10.) 08 Jan 2026
08 Jan 2026 15:45:31
Mac, I understand what you are saying, and I agree with the gist, but………,
The Championship is not as easy to get out of nowadays. We might struggle. This time we don’t have our own stadium and the club is heavily in debt thanks to that worm Sullivan and his cohorts. We need to fight to stay in the Premiership, and to that end, even though things are looking grim, we should buck up and fight.

We are going to beat QPR and go on a cup run. That will give us impetus to beat Spurs, and then the gap looks brighter. Forest are catchable because they are crap with a crap manager, and even though we’ve got our own crap manager, we are West Ham and we’ve got some bloody good players. So come on you Irons!

11.) 09 Jan 2026
09 Jan 2026 07:07:55
Regarding the captains armband it should be Soucek. He is captain of his nation, gives us 100% and appears to genuinely care.

12.) 09 Jan 2026
09 Jan 2026 11:35:42
The problem is, he’s not good enough for the Premiership and can’t hold down a regular starting place in the first team.

13.) 09 Jan 2026
09 Jan 2026 14:33:20
He is the sort of player to get us out this mess. The prima donna ballers have done nothing, the youngsters only a little more, and the forwards don’t score. One thing he’ll do is lead from the front and not hide. This is what we need.

14.) 10 Jan 2026
10 Jan 2026 06:43:19
The big problem with that is we’d have a captain who would lead us from the bench. We don’t need that.

15.) 10 Jan 2026
10 Jan 2026 08:04:33
Then he has to start then