Current Avatar:
No Avatar image uploaded
No Avatar image uploaded
West Ham Rumours Member Posts
mercerl's Profile
mercerl's Posts and Other Poster's Replies To mercerl's Posts
To mercerl's last 5 rumours posts
To mercerl's last 5 banter posts
To mercerl's last 5 rumour replies
To mercerl's last 5 banter replies
mercerl's rumours posts with other poster's replies to mercerl's rumours posts
23 Dec 2025 12:09:23
Seeing reports that Charlie Creswell is a done deal but from a dubious source Joyfull you any news on this
1.) 23 Dec 2025 13:03:11
Merceri sorry, mate, IT may well be but I Havnt been able to contact anyone this morning, not surprising, I suppose
Can tell you that at 4 pm yesterday, WH have signed No contracts. Nor were their any done deals
Last I heard on. Sunday re Cresswell, it was WH and Sunderland, the leading lights on this, things may have progressed, but I would hold fire
As you know many were saying Adama Traore, was a done deal, it was definitely not, as I posted yesterday
Cresswell is a young player I would like to see at WH, let’s hope your info is. correct?
2.) 23 Dec 2025 13:20:39
Exwhemployee said yesteday Cresswell wants to come, but Nuno priortising a striker.
Not sure why we can't do both.
Sullivans scattergun is back, looking at kaio George, 3 forwards from Czech league, Rafiu Durosinmi, Albion Rrahmani, Mojmir Chytil and 15 domestic based players.
Supposedly agreed to sign that LB El karouani
3.) 23 Dec 2025 13:46:54
NO, definetly not. AL c'mon mate, what's A CB got to do with a striker, sorry mate I’m, trying to be respectful towards WH ITKs but that’s just silly talk, I’m suprised at it
As posted on Banter NINE European forwards on a list not 3, ALL risky business
WH are in a fix, no question
Important decisions need to be made, and pronto, ,
4.) 23 Dec 2025 15:01:40
Yeah doesn't make sense, maybe they are trying to play it down, i know in the past its claimed that certain things are held back to avoid potentially scuppering certain deals. For me i'm surprised better placed teams wouldn't come in for him, but first team football and a release clause might swing it in our favour.
With the amount of strikers being looked at i hope we get 2, as you say risky, they might not cut in the prem but they might be more than good enough for the championship if we do go down.
5.) 23 Dec 2025 15:10:45
Cmon Joyful. This is West Ham lol ? ? we always do the same. Bid on a player, get refused, so bid on another player, bid refused, go next down the list and so on
27 Sep 2025 14:49:18
Nuno confirmed and he will take charge Monday at Everton
1.) 27 Sep 2025 15:30:46
Let’s all get behind him
2.) 27 Sep 2025 16:49:07
A damage limitation appointment 5 games into the season, complete lack of ambition by the board more boring dross football on the way
Mind you wouldn't suprise me if he left in Jan after one transfer window with sullivan
3.) 27 Sep 2025 20:21:49
So who did you want appointing?
4.) 27 Sep 2025 20:52:56
I’m not sure Nuno is the right man for WHU. We don’t have the right players that suit his defensive/on the break type football. We’re all glad to see the back of Potter, but someone like Silva or Xavi would have been a better fit. Let’s hope it works out, but I’m not putting out the bunting yet.
5.) 27 Sep 2025 21:17:06
I don’t think Nuno is a good long term bet as stated his counter attack style can be found out and may not suit the players we have. But he deserves a good chance to change things before we start slagging him off. Some of us have spent the last 9 months slagging off potter this should be a good thing and is better than some of the dross we we linked with like Dyche and Cooper! I don’t think he will be an overnight sensation but let’s give him a chance
6.) 27 Sep 2025 22:19:33
Silva would have been better ( but sully won't pay compo) , moyes left cause the football was so dull they have made 3 appointments in 12 months or so since all managers that play boring football, Luke I said we gave a whole season ahead of us basically we are no where near panic time yet soon they have panicked and got a boring "safe" manager in
7.) 28 Sep 2025 02:23:41
Why would Silva come to WH, he’s settled at Fulham? If it’s about who we’d like to see as our manager irrespective we’d all say Klopp or Pep. If we’re being realistic with these owners we’re very limited as to who would take the job. For me staying up until we have new owners has to be the target and Nuno is possibly the best of the bunch in order to achieve that. I’m not thrilled but more optimistic than I was 24 hours ago. Bring on the boring football as long as we stay up ….
8.) 28 Sep 2025 09:32:29
I make you right Dabber. It was good hearing rumours that we might start looking at employed managers like Silva. But I agree why would he leave them and come to us? We are a bigger club but with loads of problems and probably a lot of managers wouldn’t want to work with our board. Plus many decent managers are possibly waiting for the man united manager to be sacked.
We have 3 basic issues at West Ham the main one is the board, then the manager and then the players. Much as we would all like a well run board management team to buy us out and then get in a good young forward thinking manager who will work with a DOF to pick the transfer targets and potential new managers and we all live happily ever after………. The chances are it ain’t going to happen all at once. And hopefully the new manager can get this bunch of players to perform better. If he can get our defence to defend properly that will be a start. I honestly can’t predict how this is going to go. Nuno had a good season last year and was decent at wolves but was a disaster at Tottenham. I would much more prefer someone like Xavi or the Bournemouth manager but this is what we have and just hope he gets a better tune out of these players than Potter. I would like to see some youth incorporated but not sure he is well know for that.
9.) 28 Sep 2025 11:23:07
The reason Silva would leave Fulham for another project is simple: he believes he’s taken Fulham as far as he can. Mark my words, if the right project comes along, he’ll be off. There were strong rumours a while back he would replace Ange when he was at Spurs. All coaches are open to interesting new projects if there is an incentive. Realistically, the likes of Klopp or Pep wouldn’t consider WHU as we all know, but I don’t think either would suit WHU anyway. Silva would, and he would see potential in the club. Therein lies the obvious difference.
10.) 28 Sep 2025 11:36:34
Good points well made Hammer-D, we have to take baby steps and this starts with Nuno. We need to get behind him because he’s got one hell of a job to do
11.) 28 Sep 2025 13:54:15
Tin I don’t know if Silva would have done well or not. I’m not saying your wrong but I see us as a sort of replica of Everton who sacked him along with a lot of other good managers and then ended up with the likes of BFS and Shaun Dyche only to end up back at square one with Moyes! He didn’t leave Watford for the great Everton project it was for the money and the big club status. He seems to do better at small clubs.
A lot of people were raging that we didn’t go for Amorin from Sporting, looking at what an absolute sh*tshow he has been at Man U we can count ourselves lucky. A man who has had a chance to bring in his own players, they’ve failed and only he plays one failing system. It’s funny we don’t hear those same voices now .?
I agree Dabber we have to get behind him and give him a chance, although that said that’s not open ended support we need to see a change in performance, team spirit and results. I wouldn’t expect it immediately but 6-8 weeks should be enough to see if there are changes, we can’t wait for Christmas or summer to get his own players in, we need someone who is adaptable and makes the best of what we have.
12.) 28 Sep 2025 14:28:27
I think Silva would have been a better fit, given the type of players we have. Nuno is very similar to Moyes, but he hasn’t got a world class defensive midfielder to call on like Moyes had. Our defence isn’t a patch on the defence Moyes had, and we don’t have a fully fit striker for counter attacks. The playing staff available to Nuno worries me. To be honest, I see Nuno as a sideways move. Of course things might work out and I hope they do, but I’m just not entirely convinced happy days are here again just because Potter’s gone.
13.) 28 Sep 2025 16:07:49
All I can hope for is a manager that can see his best team and incorporate some of the better youth players in there. The fans would get behind that. Potts, Earthy, Marshall could easily step up.
Potter was tinkering with the team all 8 mths he was there.
But the big one though will be January and who Nuno can attract to WH because we need a young striker and faster players. I'm hoping his portuguese revolution at Wolves happens for us as well. With these owners though tbh I'm negative. We need to get them out
14.) 28 Sep 2025 20:08:54
Hammer D disaster at Tottenham, really? I wouldn't call a win rate of 47% a disaster, David Moyes had a win rate of 44% in his second spell and Moyes has the best win rate of all our managers!
15.) 28 Sep 2025 20:17:11
Nunos tactics revolve around having a strong defence and a solid defensive midfield, the same as moyes tactics the difference between us and forest where they did well last season is forest had good defenders and defensive midfielders hence why I think we will struggle under nuno, I can see us still struggling by Xmas and then he will be under pressure already can't see much good coming out of this appointment it has panic written all over it to be honest
16.) 29 Sep 2025 05:50:41
Fair point Gerry I didn’t realise it was high. I just spoke to a couple of mates who are spurs fans and they said he was crap. But that is a decent win rate.
06 Jun 2025 11:47:55
So confirmation of permanent signings of Todibo whilst Ferguson and Soler return to their clubs
21 Apr 2025 19:16:24
Reports of a possible player swap between West Ham and Brighton Mavropanos and Adam Webster.Personally I wouldn't be against it
1.) 21 Apr 2025 20:58:35
Why stop at one player? Brighton can have a dozen, if they want them!,
2.) 22 Apr 2025 05:12:48
Rofl ? ? ? congrats to Leeds and Burnley but I fear they will be below us next season
3.) 22 Apr 2025 09:13:03
Not if we leave potter in charge, they won't be Phil.
08 Jan 2025 15:26:26
Official he's gone and all the Spanish coaching staff
1.) 08 Jan 2025 16:58:40
Whilst Loppy was never the right man for the job the way they have treated him is shameful to be honest, not to forget he has just lost his father then to cone back whilst it was virtually public he was going to be sacked is extremely poor to be honest, next it will be we didn't sign anyone in transfer window as we didn't have time to identify targets, our board are terriible
2.) 08 Jan 2025 17:19:43
Terrible?, you rate them too highly, as posted before, we have directors that are financial. Experts, but know less than the posters on this site about football
3.) 08 Jan 2025 19:06:22
I didn't want to sweaar
mercerl's banter posts with other poster's replies to mercerl's banter posts
25 May 2026 09:28:17
Petty good article in the Guardian this morning by Jacob Steinberg this morning that sums it all up.
1.) 25 May 2026 10:35:56
Yeah, he nails it, and so many have said similar. Seems Nuno will be leaving and not because we got relegated.
Now, you cannot tell me that we hadn't planned for this ahead of time?
Therefore (and maybe the board have, but I doubt it; he will holiday first), the wheels should already be turning.
On the upside, we got Fearon, Potts, Earthy and Kante midfield for next season, with Hermandsen, Scarles and Kwp. We have Dan Cummings to play up front with Callum Wilson if he stays, so couple cbs and we dont have a bad 11 that should hold its own.
Bellamy as manager with new owners (ok, unlikely but I can hope).
2.) 25 May 2026 11:50:40
Dan Cummings has been awful for the u21s - doesn't even get a game most of the time. Would much rather see Ajala get game time up top, and also don't forget Marshall returning from loan unless we sell him.
Golambekis and Myers at the back, too.
3.) 25 May 2026 12:45:44
Young players won't get us up next year. None of them are close to being ready. We'll rely on Mads, Kwp, Scarles, Soucek, Wilson and Kilman. These players are too good for the Championship, but not good enough for the Premiership.
4.) 25 May 2026 13:20:20
If we are relying on Soucek and kilman i don't think ill bother with next season, plus the midget in goal will get bullied at every corner and long throw in with no VAR, I agree we need a couple of older heads but they need to be good and leaders, plus you don't know if the youth is ready i'd say Scarles, potts, Marshall, Earthy are definatly ready for championship others just need a chance I hope they get one and aren't stuck behind carthorses like Soucek and kilman
5.) 25 May 2026 15:27:36
Brooking 10, as others have said, this whole necessity of getting back to the Prem without a long term plan is exactly why we are in this position. Just to get there and hope for the best.
Killman, no thanks. Souchek has looked okay in some games this season, and he is a fans' favourite, but it's time to say goodbye to him, I feel. He has only looked so good because he is partnered with Fernandez, who is a proper player.
I think Hermandson will struggle without Disasi and Mav to help him. We do need some senior players, and I would like to keep Wilson to sort of mentor some of the other young strikers. I've heard good things about Golambekis and Mayers when played in central defence, and we have Scarles. I would try and keep Kwp, as he is quite versatile.
We also have Kante, Potts, Magassa (currently) and Fearon.
22 May 2026 10:13:47
So Bowen didn't make the England squad. I'm disappointed for him but in other ways I'm somewhat pleased he gets a rest and needs to recover. That is of course he stays.
1.) 22 May 2026 12:52:43
In fairness, Mercerl's form over the last few months hasn't warranted it. I also think Foden, Palmer and Gibbs White missing out are bigger shocks.
2.) 22 May 2026 16:19:01
The omission of Maguire is a disgrace. He puts his utmost into games and scores goals, especially with Stones' inclusion, and he was injured for most of the season. NO ?, Toney NO, Watkins unsure?
Bowen didn’t deserve selection but pleased anyway. Don’t like ours on international duty!
Agreed, Hammer-D, on others not selected, they are all potential game changers. ?⚒⚒⚒
3.) 22 May 2026 18:10:59
Agreed, Chelmsford. Toney is a bad decision, and I think McGuire can always do a job for the national side. I don't like Tuchel, but I will give his idea of more importance to having team players, and not just outstanding individuals, a chance, as we have seen that ourselves when we had Paqueta.
He was our most gifted player, but didn't help the team, and it is only since he has left that our season picked up.
11 May 2026 00:00:49
Darren England has history of poor VAR decision. 3 seasons ago he was involved in decision denying goal for Liverpool which PGMOK had to apologise for. Guess who went onto win that game - Spurs. The level of officiating today was absolutely awful. In fact the first hole season has been bad.
27 Apr 2026 12:06:37
Just seen on Facebook that Mark Noble to become Chief Operating Officer at West Ham this must mean effectively replacing Karen Brady if yrue.
1.) 27 Apr 2026 16:18:44
He's been doing the job for the last two months, Brady was only turning up match days, as she untangled herself from West Ham.
Noble may be pressed into interviews, as and when, it's not his scene, but Sullivan may well use him in that role when required.
As Noble is a fans' favourite, it's a shrewd move by Sullivan, as it connects to the players, perhaps making a tighter ship.
This also looks to bode well in the transfer market, as Noble will be involved with that as well.
19 Feb 2026 16:08:48
Brentford cup game moved to the Monday Night 7 30 kick off another late night
21 Feb 2026 13:33:31
Why would anybody spend £Billions on. Buying and. Knocking down the stadium just because you don't like it
24 Jan 2026 08:13:06
If it is
Fulham must be laughing their atsrs off not even particularly fast anymore well past his sell by date
07 Sep 2025 11:26:34
This was reported on Football Insider whicH I personally think is awful headlines to make you click onlh to find it either old rumours usually a year old or justvrinbish
29 Aug 2025 13:50:20
KWP can play left back could see a four personally think AWB Mavro Kilman Scarles would be best but can't see Potter playing Scarled
28 Aug 2025 10:55:08
Can we send JWP back to Southampton as part of the deal
24 May 2026 13:47:04
Joyful, and everyone else on here. I've just arrived at the ground, and there's lots of people around, and it's not usually this busy.
Whatever happens today, as long as we go out to win, that's all that matters, whether it's prem or championship next season. God and the Elizabeth Line willing, I'll be here.
10 May 2026 19:23:24
1 0 the referee.
03 May 2026 13:54:18
The basis of the defence, i.e. Mavropanos and Todibib, assuming Disasi stays at Chelsea. If Djouf is wanted by Man Utd, then that brings Scarlet back ?. Not the starting reckoning, Walker Peters has looked good.
Midfield, I would hope Soucek would stay. Fernandez goes, Bowen, he's not been himself in the last half dozen games, also goes, which means Traore stays. Alvarez comes back into the reckoning as a battling midfielder.
Taty and Pablo, and I would hope Wilson would stay.
Of the youngsters, Potts, Kente and Oxford would come into the side, along with Gelonbedes, excuse the spelling if I've got it wrong, who has a really good long throw.
Probably lose one of the goalkeepers, and probably Areola. No doubt there are others to come in through the season. With Bowen gone to Liverpool, then Soucek becomes captain to give the Nolan effect.
02 May 2026 16:56:44
One of those days today. On another day, those 3 that hit the woodwork would have gone in, and Dino would have 2 millimetres on side.
12 Apr 2026 17:09:33
Well, whatever Spurs do, iMac, it's all in our own hands now. Win each game and we stay up, simples.