West Ham banter 3

02 Feb 2026 23:13:21
Does anyone still believe that protesting against the board, would be in any way wrong?

03 Feb 2026 06:09:04
Absolutely not. Long may it continue

Just out of interest, does anyone know how many loan signings we can have. I see James Rodriguez is a free agent lol

03 Feb 2026 06:23:12
Oxelaide Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey, Deli Ali lol all free agents

03 Feb 2026 07:53:56
Forget Ox, going to Celtic where he will shine and in the summer we will offer £65m lol ? ?

03 Feb 2026 08:20:08
I think those protest will grow louder as simultaneously the crowds shrink. I feel that Sullivan is so bad we have the potential to sink into obscurity in a short period of time.

03 Feb 2026 08:25:59
All four of those players 4-5 years ago would have been worth signing on a free, not sure any of them are now, with the exception of MAYBE Oxlade-Chamberlin, who is currently training with Arsenal.

He is the only one of those four players that has actually been playing regular, competitive football in the last few seasons.

03 Feb 2026 13:55:05
We should be (but typically aren't) all over deals like this.

Letting Nnadi go to Marseille for 5m euros was criminal and in 3 years we'll be offering £40m for him.

This is our problem. No vision, no plan for the future except to fill Sullivans pockets

03 Feb 2026 16:17:03
Saint-Maximin is also available.

{Ed001's Note - he isnt.}

04 Feb 2026 00:24:55
Left club America by mutual consent 2 days ago.
Not aware anyone has picked him up.

{Ed001's Note - he joined a French team, Lens I think. He left because his kids were racially abused.}

02 Feb 2026 19:43:32
What a poor window for us. The backline needed signings ready to go and we got Disasi on loan who isn't ready to play yet. So we got Mavro and Kilman for the next 3 games most likely.

02 Feb 2026 14:01:34
This just about sums west ham up under Sullivan and Co. Ok, another transfer window wasted. West ham haven't acquired all of our targets (but what's new)? that doesn't make this an unsuccessful window, it's much much more than that.

The problem we have here is that whilst in a relegation fight and in serious trouble, the club have focused on making a profit in this transfer window, rather than actually backing the manager to the extent he requires to give us a fighting chance.

West Ham United have earned £50m from transfers, only spending £46m, this isn't including add-ons, so it could've been much more! And that's Not to mention that the Hammers have also saved over £15m on wages! We also had a massive wage reduction in the Summer window, and now we've had another in January. This is asset stripping, not successful business.

This is one eye firmly on the Championship and clearly the risk of relegation outweighs the chances of survival. More than likely down to one person again and we know who you are Mr Sullivan

02 Feb 2026 07:42:32
I might be wrong here, but at the start of this window am sure we offered £18m for charlie cresswell which was rejected.

Then, Southampton want £18m for harewood-bellis and we offer £12m?

That sums up Sullivan and how he conducts business.

To finish. If we don't beat Burnley we are finished

02 Feb 2026 10:26:44
NO mate WH. Have made no offers for Cresswell at all

It was at the end of the last window, when Sullivan made two bids 11 m euro for Cresswell 13 m euro for Francolino

Both bids were turned down, but Sullivan was told by Toulouse that 13 m euro would buy Cresswell, and then15 m euro would buy Francolino, so for 4 m euro! WH never bought either!

We started the season first 20 games without proper strikers, which I said so many times, was an act of ignorance, and will get us into trouble, and so it did

Although many look to the maths involved on how many games left
I don’t, The weekends results, elsewhere, went for WH, we should now be just 3 points behind, in with a good chance

Now, I think that MAC is right, if we don’t beat Burnley, next week we are done

Sullivans interest is getting 9 players out, getting the wage bill down, He is hopelessly out of his depth, and I just do not see WH achieving anything, whilst he runs the club, even if by some small chance westay up

02 Feb 2026 11:34:32
Agreed Joyful. Barrow boy, market place player negotiating

Im divided in that i want us to survive but, i want us relegated because sullivan will sell up

02 Feb 2026 13:02:30
Mac I think the problem is the idiot will sell up now but puts a ridiculous over-priced value on West Ham, I can’t remember the figure but as you would imagine with him it is so outrageous nobody in their right mind would purchase. And I’m not sure what he bases this high value on. We have no stadium all we have is a reasonably weak squad and some portacabins at chadwell Heath.

If we get relegated he is still deluded that he thinks he can get a good price for the club. We could be stuck with him for a while hopefully season ticket renewals will absolutely nose dive, which I think they will. Then hopefully he will see we are no longer his cash cow for milking when he wants and have to sell up at a realistic price as he could start losing money hand over fist.

02 Feb 2026 16:01:30
I think there is less chance he will sell up if we get relegated he is so greedy there is no way he will sell with the value of the club potentially halved.

02 Feb 2026 17:06:21
If we drop, my feeling unfortunately, is that we won’t return to the top league immediately, Sullivan Will take a. massive paper hit, there will be people, who may be interested, in aquiring the club, but at an accurate £500 m level, not an absurd £1.2 billion, there is and has never been anything to substantiate that ludicrous level

Sullivan has gradually slid us down the greasy pole, to a situation, which may not now be retrievable

The fans don’t deserve relegation. But Sullivan does and how!

02 Feb 2026 17:07:18
I sadly think you are right Robbo. The man is so greedy he must have made an absolute mint on his original investment. Not to mention where all the money goes in between

02 Feb 2026 07:39:07
{Ed's Note - LAUDRUPHAGI has posted a new article entitled, Why Rangers' Window Feels Like Proper Squad Building

01 Feb 2026 21:08:56
If we don't sign a CB or two then we are f**ked, if Sullivan can't see that then he deserves to get relegated, the way this club is run is abysmal, we will be lucky to fill the lower tier of the stadium next season, but Sullivan deserves it.

01 Feb 2026 23:18:10
Surely if we go down he has to sell up, in an ideal world we manage to stay up and prick sells up anyway, hate the bloke with a passion. How does he sleep at night knowing he’s the most hated man by anyone who follows our club, maybe even by people further afield, fans from all walks of life, and fans from a. Lot of other clubs think it’s disgusting what he’s done to our club.

02 Feb 2026 05:31:13
It is so annoying that not that many mention him (Sullivan) when they talk about the car crash that is West Ham, with the exception of a few. The usual rubbish I hear from most non West Ham fans or pundits (many of whom seem to be wind up merchants) is that we are an ungrateful fan base whose problems stem from getting rid of David Moyes.


Although saying all that the penny is finally dropping and more are now being critical of the board and recruitment. I don’t feel we are seen as sympathetically as Newcastle were when they had their nightmare chairman and board

02 Feb 2026 07:35:29
Groundwork already being laid by the board making a statement like "we are trying like Mad"?

They have had plenty of time and plenty of opportunities to get business done by now. Unfortunately its the way Sullivan does business. Lowball offer for harewood-bellis. Loan move for disasi (who hasn't even trained and i don't rate him) .

Midfield replacement is desperately needed. Weve lost 6 this window. Could've had angel gomes if they acted faster

02 Feb 2026 11:36:44
Am truly amazed we haven’t gone in for Angel Gomes. He comes from London, so it would’ve been a good fit, plus he’s a left footed central midfielder… there are not many of those around who are young - yet experienced.

02 Feb 2026 13:55:44
Wolves are preparing for life in the championship, they are getting people in today and have, sold their most expensive asset, Larsen for top money, and I fancy they will come back up first time round
WH have prepared NOTHING,
and will lose vast majority of thepresent team, for proverbial peanuts, if we drop, and our points gap today is just the same, as it was

Every manager from Moyes onwards has been criticised for an abundance of things, and quite rightly so

BUT when you have a chairman Who sits on his arse for 8 WEEKS in the summer window and does next to nothing, to help his squad, THIS IS THE RESULT

AND if we drop don’t think we are on auto pilot to come back up, you will soon find out that’s not the case at all

02 Feb 2026 17:13:12
Totally agree Joyful. I think we could potentially drop further with this shower of a board of high flyers ? in charge

01 Feb 2026 10:34:07
I would suggest we just pay Saints the £18m and get harwood-bellis NOW

01 Feb 2026 10:51:03
Think the negotiations just got a bit harder. Now we've been linked to 33 year old John Egan.

01 Feb 2026 11:00:21
Absolutely Mac3, now that Southampton and West Ham have played their fixtures this weekend it’s time to get round the negotiating table, but this should’ve all been done earlier in the window. One clean sheet all season means we are desperate for defenders, scoring goals isn’t a problem it’s keeping them out that is.

01 Feb 2026 12:42:04
Couldn't agree more Stevie. And to top it all, we've had this entire window and yet again we panic at last minute

01 Feb 2026 14:01:21
This is all on Sullivan that short @rsed spiv thought he could get away without having to buy a CB when we all know we really need 2 plus a creative MF player.

01 Feb 2026 14:59:24
Hammer-D, its the same old story. No.plan and no future vision in place. Scraping around to find the easiest deal late in the transfer window when this should all have been wrapped up by now.

Ask yourself this, IF we had already brought in a cb what would the result have been yesterday? For sure he wouldn't have had to bring kilman on!

But no! And this isn't because of Nuno. He can only use what he has at his disposal. Yes, he makes questionable decisions, but Sullivan is tying his hands


Look how much better we are now than we were under LOP and Potter. 3 wins in last 4, and if tobido had scored it would have been 4 wins on the bounce. Nuno needs players but we have little over a day to go. Blame falls in one direction AGAIN!

01 Feb 2026 15:16:58
Im not quite sure why anyone would think we would spend big money, it's obvious from the summer window we wouldn't spend what we wouldn't recoup, I said the paquetta money had already been spent a few weeks ago which is now becoming reality

We are run like a tin pot amatuer club and the results are now matching it, no vision, no ambition

01 Feb 2026 17:13:30
Hence why we had so many disgruntled fans protesting.

01 Feb 2026 10:28:43
WATERSHED MOMENT

Just before half time yesterday AWB came right through into-the penalty area, he's 15 yards from the goal, there's no obvious pass, (from where I am he's just to my right )

Just smash it low and hard at the goal: I felt 3-0 coming up,

He didn't ball rolled out of play

After that game went against us, That was the turning point

You can blame Nuno all you want, but could anyone, really do better, with this squad?

Look at Chelsea, their is just no comparison

Todibo out, WH are scrambling around for a CB, which should have been NUMBER ONE priority in the window

IF things are NOT-right at the top of the club, how can things go right on the field?

A win yesterday, we are in the race, now?the psychological effect may Finish us, and sometimes, you need some luck to go with it we are certainly not getting that, it was used up last season

After that defeat. It's going to be really hard to pick ourselves up,

01 Feb 2026 11:01:02
As poorly as our squad has been built, there were 4 subs that would have been a better option than Kilman.

We had chances to make it 3, even at 2-2 Todibo could have scored the winner. Fine margins went against us.

How has Mavro not been awared a free kick with their second goal? Clear forearm elbow to this face? Why do these decisions go against us but not for us? Bored of it, and now we get to watch the ref cam to see up close how sh*t they are. Summerville tackled clean right infront of the ref and he gave a free kick in a dangerous position.

01 Feb 2026 11:58:53
It will only be hard to pick ourselves up if the players play the “woe is me card”. For 60 minutes we battered one of the richest clubs in the World away at a ground we rarely get even a point from. Yes if Taty had scored or AWP or Fernandes when he shot at the keeper we would have (in all likelihood) been out of sight, but they didn’t and the minute Chelsea show a threat, Nuno referred to type (which I posted last week hoping that he wouldn’t) and went defensive. You are right in the problem primarily lies at the top as if we’d gone all out for a CB it might have been Cresswell being brought but it would still have altered a system that we’ve just started to play really well, mid game, which then threw everything into panicked chaos.

If he’d just swapped Pablo for Potts there would have been minimal change on the pitch and still remained an attacking threat. Nuno got it wrong, again, and needs to earn his money by taking the blame and ensuring the players don’t give up or forget about the very good things they’ve done in the last 270 minutes or so of PL football! COYI!

01 Feb 2026 13:07:26
Even though we dominated the first half, I think he should have started with Wilson up front and Taty just behind him in the number 10 position. Pablo is obviously not a Premiership player and should not be starting over Wilson. I would have started with Potts over Soucek who is another below par player.

And possibly Scarles over Diouf who cannot defend. Kilman should be nowhere near the bench, let alone the pitch, but now he’ll be starting through necessity. With Nuno and Sullivan in charge, the situation is dire.

01 Feb 2026 13:33:40
They say you learn by your mistakes. Clearly Nuno doesn't

01 Feb 2026 14:25:38
I don’t think it’s fair to single out one missed chance. A split second wrong decision when we have all the next day to reflect and analyse . There were a number of other chances missed, but every team in the league have that week in week out it’s called football.

Totally agree that the problem lies at the top and always has. I disagree also with what is any manager meant to do with these players. They showed the first half that we can play and entertain. Chelsea were poor first half but we were still good. The problem came from the change as most have said so the manager should take some stick for that and try and do things different.

As Dabber said he could still play more conservative by bringing on Potts and Magassa and I think that would have worked far better.
I don’t like scapegoating any player or individual but for the rest of the season it could be a disaster because of Todibo which is a real shame because he has been one shining light for most of the season. I bet the FA slap a bigger ban on him like they did for Kudus last year. It will be really difficult to recover from this but if they can show the first half endeavour then there is always a chance.

01 Feb 2026 15:22:23
I thought we were excellent 1st half yday. I felt exactly the same re that AWB chance but he didn't have the confidence to just lace it into the bottom corner. Taty had another great chance earlier in the 1st half.

Our manager is an issue now. We play well 45 mins but run out of steam and Nuno just decides we try and sit back. Our defence get caught continually by crosses into the box : QPR, Spurs, Sunderland, Chavski.

It's ridiculous really.

01 Feb 2026 09:30:04
Just watched MOTD this morning we looked good going forward with the few clips they showed of us, but how deep we were after 2-1 was a joke. Ma rip Amos for the first was at fault he looked at the scorer and left him for the cross, but nuno how can u think u can just ram a load of defensive players on and hold.

He's done it too many times now, he's cost us so may points. We need to bring a couple of defenders in 100%. Kilman is shocking, mavripanos is full of mistakes

01 Feb 2026 08:06:37
With Todibo now suspended we're going to have to play Kilman ?

01 Feb 2026 09:25:45
Or Southampton are going to charge us top dollar for THB

01 Feb 2026 10:09:44
We are doomed if we do