07 Jun 2026 10:44:28
So now the dust is starting to settle. What now?
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07 Jun 2026 11:01:18
I told you at Christmas that the documentary was coming out and big changes at the top were coming.
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07 Jun 2026 15:21:26
What now then, Peter, as you seem to be in the know.
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07 Jun 2026 10:33:41
The Panorama episode about Sullivan is tomorrow night on BBC1 at 8pm.
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07 Jun 2026 09:13:11
Now Sully and the witch have gone, I wonder how many of the fans that used them as an excuse not to go to games, will now buy a season ticket / attend games. Not many I bet. I would love to be proved wrong and see the LS packed each home game, but I doubt it.
I renew my ticket every year as they are in my blood, regardless of where we play, who the owners are now or who the manager is.
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06 Jun 2026 12:25:58
He's gone - Sullivan steps down.
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06 Jun 2026 12:57:17
Brilliant. 👍
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06 Jun 2026 13:11:14
Good, let's see what happens now.
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06 Jun 2026 07:39:04
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05 Jun 2026 07:39:03
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03 Jun 2026 15:38:14
Michail Antonio
Great servant to West Ham over many years but decides to have a gripe and wishes West Ham relegation. West Ham stuck by him when he decides to park his car in a tree because it’s too powerful for him.
Paid his wages for over a year and he thinks West Ham treated him badly!! Poor attitude and he’s doing himself no favours with the fans.
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03 Jun 2026 17:09:20
Hi Bobby, I've read some of what he said, and he really doesn't come across well, to be honest.
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03 Jun 2026 21:39:32
I thought Antonio was generally a great servant for West Ham, but there has always been an issue of his overinflated ego and some sort of persecution complex. He has had a few high-powered sports cars that he obviously can't drive, as he has crashed them in various places.
In a car, he really is a danger to the public. He should have lost his license and stopped feeling sorry for himself.
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01 Jun 2026 18:23:29
Hi Joyful. Do you have any intel on the supposed DOF role. I have read on other sites that Nuno will play a major part in employing this position which sounds counterproductive. Whilst I think the DOF and the manager have to be able to have a working relationship you can’t have a situation where an employee chooses his own personal boss.
This will just mean it is DOF in name only. And should we expect a number more of Jorge Menendez specials coming through the door. Please no more Pablo’s.
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01 Jun 2026 18:40:07
Oddly enough I was gonna ask the same.
This Scott geeza from the Boro was pushed our way by Salthouse, and no approach has been made by us.
I tell you, they've gone on holiday and the clock is ticking!!!!
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01 Jun 2026 20:08:23
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
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01 Jun 2026 20:13:41
No info at present, Hammer D, sorry. All I know is there is no definite target, as the powers that be seem to be split on this one. It will get sorted, but we need to get busy.
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01 Jun 2026 22:55:44
Cheers, Joyful. imo it's important it's not a Nuno choice.
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02 Jun 2026 08:00:55
Cheers, Joyful. Get busy? This is West Ham, and we never do anything early.
We must surely know by now which players we are selling and which we are not, and we must have an idea of who we are after as director of football, but in true West Ham fashion, no urgency to give Nuno a proper pre-season.
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02 Jun 2026 16:23:12
The transfer window isn't open until 15th June, Phil, so can't do much at the moment, but hopefully won't be as slow as usual. It's no good playing 3 or 4 games and then trying to make signings.
We are fishing in a lot smaller pool now without the lure and wages of the Premier League, and we will be playing more games this season, so need a bigger squad.
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02 Jun 2026 18:58:02
Window doesn't open, but deals have already been done elsewhere, to be announced 15 June. No need to wait for a couple to leave. West Ham have deposit monies, need to start moving, we have a little, but need to start player ins pronto.
Wolves, Burnley, Boro have their teams at 95% readiness. Soton and a few others are at 80%. It's very difficult to create a team quickly, but if we don't, you can forget any chance of getting back next season. We cannot give others a head start.
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02 Jun 2026 19:47:30
Absolutely joyful. Although we can't sign them yet, deals in principle can be agreed.
Tabloids report we are weighing up a move for Harrison Burrows (Diouf?). Also, this midfielder from Troyes (Fernandes replacement). Interest again in Stassin (replacement for Bowen?).
Taty may be staying?
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02 Jun 2026 20:47:01
We never do anything quickly. We will wait until we sell, it's what always happens. No reason that won't change now, so I doubt they will make deals until they sell unless it's frees.
Of course, it's fun reading stories about the 100 odd players that we are linked to all window, but these never happen either.
We all know what needs to be done, but the board never do, sadly, which is how we have ended up like this.
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01 Jun 2026 08:15:40
Do I assume that it's all gone silent that Sullivan has decided to go on holiday for a month, whilst clubs around us are already getting their house in order?
A normal summer transfer window ahead of us then (just when you hope things might change)!!!
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01 Jun 2026 12:38:16
Think that now the decision to keep Nuno has happened, they are trying to get his coaching team locked in - talks ongoing with Paco to stay. Also, pushing to get a director of football in, and that's when we will see some kind of movement, but unfortunately outs will have to happen before incomings.
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01 Jun 2026 16:00:25
Not sure if it's good or bad, but Krezynski seems to be taking more of a lead role now in rebuilding, so things may start moving once Nuno and his backroom and director of football are brought in.
With Sullivan taking a backseat, I'm more hopeful.
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01 Jun 2026 07:39:03
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31 May 2026 21:03:03
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31 May 2026 07:39:02
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30 May 2026 09:18:46
⚒⚒⚒ Some angry comments directed on here at others! I personally don’t go to watch us now but quite a few members of my family go to most Home matches so I get feedback & opinions from them but I do watch all games live or recorded!
My take on the Damager as I call him, is he has contributed massively to our demise & the person responsible for us being relegated, forget Potter or other previous, we had been in winning positions in so many games when he tried to park the Bus but it broke down 😡😡 If we have lost 21 points from winning positions as other posters have said because of his tactics, he should go, boring bloody boring, why should he give f***, multi millionaires all of them.
Rewarded for abject failure, how many of working fans would be kept on for losing there company money!
There in no guarantee with any Manager, apparently Bellamy fancied us, why in hell not? Parker, load of rubbish about previous clubs why not, look at other clubs unknown Managers come in & flourish?
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30 May 2026 09:52:15
Apparently your opinion isn't valid, Chelmsford, because you don't go, as I was told. Stay in my armchair, haha. People seem to think they somehow know better if they pay to watch without ever making valid points, but there you go.
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30 May 2026 11:46:01
I'm going to put this out there now. I'm not a season ticket holder, I'm not even a Southerner, let alone a Londoner. I'm a middle-aged man from Cheshire who chose to support West Ham as a 9 year old back in 1980, when all his mates chose Liverpool, Man Utd, City or Everton because they were closer. I chose my club, my tribe, and I've never regretted that choice.
I go to the London Stadium when a mate of mine can get me a ticket, and I can afford it, so about 3 times a season. My son chose Man City, but my 3 girls all chose WH. If people on here now feel my posts are less valid because I don't go to home games, I still have an opinion, I still think it's valid, and I'll still be West Ham till I die. Stop the bickering, people.
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30 May 2026 12:02:32
Keep cool, my friends. Nuno is on 40 k a week now. In the first year of a 3-year contract, there's no contract compensation to be paid if things don't work out in the first year.
We will find that out in the first 6/8 games played. WH cannot afford to be in the Championship for more than two seasons.
If he's crap, he will be on his way very soon.
If WH go beyond two seasons in the lower league, the whole structure of the club, from top to bottom, would have to change.
So let's see how things roll out, particularly with players in and out of the club... Joyfull.
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30 May 2026 12:44:11
He was on 86k a week, so are you saying he has had a 50% salary deduction, the same as the players?
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30 May 2026 13:10:37
Yes! Is the short answer. I have already said he has been promised a top-up bonus to equate his Premier wage if we go back up at the first attempt. If we don't, he doesn't get the bonus, and I doubt he will keep his job anyway.
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30 May 2026 16:56:23
Dabber Hammer 2, I think that's great mate. 👍 I am a Southerner through & through, just as I am a Hammer of 82 years old. Supporters change their Wives or Girlfriends more than their team. 😂😂 You have every right to your say, as does every fan. I have only been to watch us 4 times at the LS since moving further out in Essex in 2007, plus health restrictions!
Another poster on here "Whitby" travels from there to watch us play, think he's a Ticket Holder as well or was, another from Ireland, that's dedication for you, plenty of others have 2/3 hours each way, great supporters.
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⚒⚒⚒⚒ COYI.
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30 May 2026 17:06:19
Hi Chelmsford, I don’t think your comments are aimed at me, but I will respond anyway. I have been going to most of the home games. I was a bit lucky in that I was away for the period around Christmas/January and missed about half a dozen home matches. My first game back was Sunderland at home, from when our form picked up. I would never suggest that people who don’t go to games have no right to an opinion. I don’t care if you’ve never been to a game in your life, as long as you are a West Ham fan, that’s all that’s important.
Where I think comments about going to the games have some validity is that there have been comments saying this is the worst football we have played, and it is just the same as Potter and Moyes, and also saying other stuff that just wasn’t true. The football wasn’t great, but it was significantly more entertaining than what we got from Moyes, Loppy, and Potter, because for all those 3 managers quite often I would go to the games and the general hostility towards the level of entertainment was toxic, and was absolutely horrible to be amongst, and also to have to watch the football.
Now, I could think, possibly, is it just me that bizarrely I find myself actually enjoying going to the games since Paco arrived, but it isn’t just me, as you rarely got booing at half time (apart from Sunday), and the mood amongst the crowd was generally more upbeat. I don’t think it was totally universal, but by and large I found the fans preferred it to what had gone before. And you cannot pick up that feeling from watching it on telly, you can’t even hear what roughly 40,000 fans are chanting about Sullivan. And you can’t tell what it’s like from either me or one of your family telling you what it’s like; unfortunately, you have to feel it for yourself. I’m sure you can tell us about some blinding atmospheres at Upton Park that I would never have experienced.
Ultimately, Nuno has failed badly, and should have been replaced. But if it was a choice of other negative managers that were mentioned, I can’t see the point. They should have taken a chance on Bellamy.
Apologies for another war and peace length post. 🤣
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30 May 2026 20:21:03
Hammer-D, my comment was most certainly not intended towards you, nobody, in fact, just replying to Dabber Hammer from Cheshire. 👍👍⚒⚒⚒
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31 May 2026 10:10:31
Good to hear from you, Chelms, and appreciate your comments, mate, as I have for the last 10 years or so we've been on here. 😀
Hammer-D, another poster who I thoroughly enjoy conversing with on here.
In fact, I love this forum... some of you drive me bonkers, but life would be so boring if we all agreed all of the time. Irrespective of where we live, how often we go to watch live, how often we watch live in the armchair, we all share the same passion for our club.
My wife would testify how I display my passion, from my blue language, every game, which I'm not proud of, but can't help, because I bloody love this club and the game. We'll be ok, guys, whatever happens.
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31 May 2026 11:38:28
Hey Dabber, good post.
I love seeing people with little or no connections to East London on here. It says that, generally, you must be people of high integrity. Because there's no way you are a glory hunter, as there's no way you'll get glory supporting West Ham. 😂
Just a quick story. I remember going to Spain back in the late 90s, and there was a fella working in a bar who was a spitting image of Paulo Di Canio. He also wore a West Ham shirt, so I started speaking to him, and it was obvious he was from the North West.
So I asked him if he was a West Ham fan just because he looked like Paulo. But he said no, it was because where he grew up, I think in Rochdale, Allan Taylor was his next door neighbour. Who we obviously signed from Rochdale, and he had the dream run in the cup in 75 scoring 2 in the quarters, semis and final. Absolutely love that sort of thing.
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31 May 2026 11:58:13
That's a great story, mate. Mine is a little similar. We were on holiday in Portugal in 1980 and the FA Cup was on TV in the lobby with Portuguese commentary. My younger brother and I watched it, and decided to pick a team each.
As I was the eldest, I made sure I had first pick and chose West Ham because I liked the kit. He got Arsenal. We won and I gloated for the rest of the holiday. He has been gloating for 46 years since! 😆
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31 May 2026 16:55:28
Brilliant! You had the choice Betamax or VHS. You chose Betamax. 🤣
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31 May 2026 17:51:01
Hammer-D, re your "war & peace long post" your words mate not mine. 🤣🤣 First went to Upton Park / Boleyn from about 1959 when I was 15 & had just started work, and saw all the greats over there when I was a young age! Stanley Matthews in a cup game against Stoke, Denis Law then with Huddersfield, of course later in the 70s onwards. World Cup 1966 winning trio, Moore, Hurst, Peters. I played against Peters in opposing schools in Dagenham, my birth town.
The funniest incident ever, when football was fun, was behind the North Bank goal, against Man City who had a corner to be taken by Colin Bell.
Franny Lee was in the box waiting for Bell to take it, Bobby Moore up tight behind Lee, yanked Lee's shorts down 2/3 times before the corner was taken. Each time Lee pulled them up without looking behind him. 🤣🤣 The North Bank had a great laugh, great joker Big Bob, and a fantastic player if anybody saw him play regularly as I and others did. 👍👍 ⚒⚒⚒
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31 May 2026 19:57:49
🤣🤣🤣 Francis Lee was also a character. Imagine you had VAR with that incident. He'd get done for gross indecency. 😂
I was not lucky enough to ever see any of our 3 World Cup heroes.
Although my very first game was Arsenal v Man U at Highbury around 1970, I was only 4 or 5. I remember seeing Bobby Charlton, George Best and Charlie George; they were the most distinctive looking.
My big sister is an Arsenal fan and tried to get me to become an Arsenal fan, but I was having none of it. I wanted to support my local team with Pop Robson and Clyde Best in it. My first West Ham game was probably around 1976, in the North Bank, taking an orange box to stand on, coz, being about 10 years old, I couldn't see anything. Different times.
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01 Jun 2026 14:08:26
Betamax Hammer, ... Should I change the login name?!. 😂😂
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