The Premier League roars back this weekend, West Ham being the last to re-commence with their trip to St James’ Park on Monday night against a hugely challenging Newcastle United. Julen Lopetegui’s ‘two games to save his job’ would seem a mission impossible based on everything we’ve seen this season.
Chairman David Sullivan appears to be clinging onto the notion that West Ham might actually achieve anything other than ‘nil points’ in this and the following game against Arsenal at London Stadium, even being branded as ‘delusional’ by Paul Merson for expecting anything other than heavy defeats in both.
Remember, Lopetegui was a David Sullivan pick – and so what is at stake here is largely the Chairman’s pride at having to make the public admission of what we can all see for ourselves – Lopetegui is a retrograde step and the team is now performing worse than in David Moyes’ last months.
How heavy a defeat do West Ham have to endure before the chairman steps up and puts Lopetegui out of his misery?
Will a 5-0 thrashing utterly destroy team morale in the meantime? I actually feel sorry for the players who must be waiting for the inevitable. I’m almost tempted not to watch.
