Could this be the season West Ham go!

Good question.

Looking at their next nine games :

Liverpool h
Brighton h
Man City a
Liverpool a
Southampton h
Arsenal a
Wolves h
Tottenham a
Chelsea h

Their chances of staying clear of the bottom three look very dodgy. And if they are even slightly adrift by the end of March, will they be able to summon up the character to get back? Their fans seem to think that lack of fight is part of the problem.

If they do go down, next season will be interesting to see. I suspect they may lose 30,000 off the gate overnight, and how their business model will cope with that must be a big concern. And if they do end up in the Championship, I think I am right in saying they only have three years to get their finances in order before the EFL rules become a problem for them. Of course promotion would solve most of that, but would they be able to do it?
 
Threw away a two goal lead yesterday - I bet Moyes was crimson. Could just do with Villa getting a decent run together (will the League Cup be a distraction?) and Watford's revival continuing. I'd say Norwich are gone.
 
They missed a very big opportunity yesterday and their fans posting on KUMB are distraught about it. City and Liverpool away are their next two, then Southampton, and then (from memory I think they have Arsenal, Chelsea and Wolves - something like that, anyway. They are in trouble, and the consequences of going down may be huge.
 
If they did go down they would need to go up within 2 seasons as I think that they would fall foul of FFP in the EFL and be in administration pretty soon.
 
clappers said:
Nasty horrible club with awful supporters and a big time attitude. Always hope they go down but they will be horrendous Billy big boots in the championship I expect.
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Don't really think it matters to us as we won't be in the Championship but it would be nice to see, never forget what their so called fans did at Wembley.
 
No chance they will go down. They have David Moyes and he's a winner. It's what he does. He wins things😂
 
IIRC, they took out the equivalent of a payday loan not long ago, repayable in the summer.
If they go down - and I hope they do - their finances will be in the brown stuff.
Horrible owners, fans and "stadium".
 
Difficult to see more than 6 points from that lot. It would be highly amusing to see West Ham and Moyes 'The Winner' relegated.
 
Man City away
Liverpool away
Southampton home
Arsenal away
Wolves home
Tottenham away
Chelsea home

are their next seven.
 
West Ham, Aston Villa & Norwich for me.

Will be interesting to see what sort of crowds West Ham would get in the Olympic Stadium if they do go down.
 
West Ham are proper fucked if they get relegated, i'm a bit closer to the action on this, could well be the end for them, that sounds overly dramatic, but knowing a bit about how it's all been financed and the complete speculative budgeting, the plug could get pulled on them in two very possible ways. Madness that this is even slight possibility, yet it's closer to odds on if they go down, crazy to see how mad football clubs have to be run nowdays, the money involved is bonkers silly & to even stand a chance of competing clubs have to gamble with the massive amounts of revenue they receive, it's become a bidding war, huge sums of money are basically wagered against the clubs survival, a massive car crash is going to happen soon, the numbers involved are too close to the edge of the cliff now, it's a similar situation to when the banking system crashed, even the top top clubs are living dangerously to maintain their position, it's all going to fold like a pack of cards soon, shameful really, the heart & soul of it all has been destroyed.

Delight in West Ham's demise if it happens, I wouldn't wish it upon any football club.
 
I wonder if all W/Hams players have a clause in their contracts which says that their pay is cut by 50/70% if they go down?
Mass exodus if there is. 😁
 
Might end up ground sharing with Orient ( oh the irony ) if relegation snowballs into a terminal tailspin, big big big problems in Stratford, Spurs completely out manouved everyone over the Olympic park, nobody figured out their real motives, was indeed brinkmanship of the highest calibre.
 
They aren't the only side with a tough run in. I think Norwich have it all to do, and after that it is two from West Ham, Bournemouth, Watford and the Villa, and it may go down to the last day - when WHU play the Villa.
 
Unlike many, my experience of them either at Upton Park or Wembley was OK. We shared some genuinely good natured banter with them on the tube to Wembley and there was no hint of malice at all. But even so, it would be great to see them drop, purely because they clearly have no understanding of where they really fit in the footballing hierarchy. They aren't the only ones of course....
 
straightatthewall said:
Unlike many, my experience of them either at Upton Park or Wembley was OK. We shared some genuinely good natured banter with them on the tube to Wembley and there was no hint of malice at all. But even so, it would be great to see them drop, purely because they clearly have no understanding of where they really fit in the footballing hierarchy. They aren't the only ones of course....
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Think the true fans view themselves as a yoyo club, predominantly more in the top flight & enjoying the challenge when in the second tier. Don't know of many that have true dillusions of grandeur.
 
Bit of a strange weekend with Watford losing at Man Utd and Villa losing at Soton although doubt they'll get much at Liverpool.
 
Relegation for me, don't understand why they brought Moyes back he’s not the one to lift them out of a relegation battle so they deserve each other!
 
Watching them last night they seemed to have more fight than Watford did at Man Utd and Villa have shown for most of the season. Sadly I think they can get out of it 🙁
 
I concur with the majority. Can’t abide West Ham - more so since Wembley. I lived in London’s East End for almost four years. Far too many cheeky-chappy Cockney oiks hanging around for my liking - forever blowing their own ‘bubbles’. And for them to be ‘gifted’ the Olympic Stadium - nauseating stuff. 🤢
 
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