Embarrassing West Ham stars seen doing something unacceptable after Liverpool shambles

The Hammers barely laid a glove on the Reds, who could and should have won by a far greater margin.

West Ham’s performances have been woeful all season under Julen Lopetegui.

That includes their displays during the extremely fortunate recent four-game unbeaten run.

While West Ham’s opponents let them off the hook during that period, Liverpool were not so charitable.

Arne Slot’s side took West Ham to the cleaners as so many had predicted they would.

For the most part, the Hammers had become highly competitive in these games over the last four-and-a-half years.

But at times it looks like a Premier League side against a Championship team at the London Stadium.

Some of the players acted like it too it seems.

Embarrassing West Ham stars were seen doing something unacceptable after the Liverpool shambles.

There aren’t many West Ham players who can hold their head up and say they have played to their potential this season.

That is on the manager and his tactics too, though.

West Ham stars seen doing something unacceptable

Mohammed Kudus had one of his better games for some time against Liverpool.

But it is no coincidence it came when he was playing in his preferred position off the right.

Besides Kudus and Jarrod Bowen, though, few West Ham players could walk off the pitch with their heads held high.

It was the eighth time under Lopetegui that West Ham have conceded three goals or more.

In just half a season.

As a result the manager is once again under intense pressure.

Hammers supporters are looking at what other new managers such as Slot have managed to do with their teams in the same space of time.

It is night and day to the chaotic scenes at West Ham.

Hammers fans made their feelings clear once again by booing the team off at half-time and then leaving en masse long before the final whistle.

With the London Stadium stands virtually empty, some West Ham players may have thought they would get away with what they did on the pitch after the referee called time on their latest hammering.

They clearly forgot the cameras would be on them, though.

Either that or some of them simply don’t get it.

Time and a place for fan boy behaviour in West Ham’s situation

Several Hammers players were spotted asking Mohamed Salah for his shirt after the final whistle in full view of the cameras.

There is a time and a place for that kind of thing.

And of course Salah’s shirt is sought after given he is a Premier League great.

But players – including goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, Crysencio Summerville and Luis Guilherme – need to show a touch more awareness.

Although in fairness to Guilherme, as a young kid who has been rather poorly introduced to life at the club by Lopetegui he could be forgiven for thinking it may be his only chance.

You have just been absolutely embarrassed in a game that could have ended 10-0.

At least read the room and wait until you get down the tunnel before asking the player who has just torn you to ribbons for his shirt.

It’s just not the done thing when you have lost so heavily and are having a terrible season like West Ham are.

These are big Premier League rivals – we’re not some lower league club who has drawn the mighty Liverpool in the cup.

What’s more unacceptable, though, is the fact it was the closest any West Ham players got to Salah all game.

Celebrity Hammers fan and TV comedian Tom Davis shares the frustration of his fellow fans at what he is seeing served up by Lopetegui’s side week in, week out.

Insipid, passive performances have become a common theme of the Spaniard’s tenure.

Davis has had enough, labelling Lopetegui’s expensively assembled side a ‘shambles’.

“For the money spent pre-season this is an utter shambles,” Davis said.

“Bowen aside, no one else seems to show any pride or fight in playing for the club.”

That will chime with many of Davis’ fellow Hammers fans.

The last thing supporters want to see from their players is them acting like fan boys when 60,000 people have turned out to see them roll over and have their bellies tickled.

Some fans might be ok with it. That in itself perhaps shows where West Ham are at as a club with opinion so divided on almost every issue.

That kind of behaviour is not indicative of a winners’ mindset and culture, though. It is all part of a malaise which has crept into the club during a miserable 2024.

There must be big changes in mentality above anything else if 2025 is to be any better for the Hammers.

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