Potters Getting Hammered & We Need To Find Some Form | OneFootball

Sadly, for West Ham United fans it is increasingly beginning to look like ‘here we go again’. Four games into the 2025/26 Premier League campaign and we already find ourselves in 18th place and the relegation zone with three points picked up from a single win against Nottingham Forest, but three straight defeats to Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Sunderland.

We are also in the middle of September, and any hopes of a League Cup run this year are already over, and simply put, manager Graham Potter has now run through most of the excuses that his arrival last January awarded him. Minimal transfer business and not having signed his own players has now been somewhat rectified with the moves we made in the window, and the 50 year old has of course, now had a full pre season campaign under his belt to focus his work on the training pitch.

But for many in the Hammers faithful, especially those who enjoy online gaming and use live craps free play options, it is time to talk about whether you change your game to improve your odds, and in our case the manager again. We continue to be woefully short on the pitch, and not only do we still not seem to have a defined way of playing, you would struggle to point out where improvements have been made in our performance levels, and whilst nobody was expecting overnight changes and success, signs of improvements and being a work in progress should now be with us to one degree or another.

Potter failed to have much of an impact on his first arrival at the club, and few in the fanbase could point to where he has had an impact having had a full summer, and there are already calls being made from sections of the London Stadium faithful for us to again pivot in the dug out and make a move for a strong demanding character like Jose Mourinho, or the more quietly spoken, but effective, Nuno Espirito Santo. Despite the calls for those two in particular from some sections of the fans, one thing we know for sure is that our board are usually pretty slow in coming forward when it comes to managerial changes, so the likelihood is that baring an absolute nightmare between now and the New Year, he is probably pretty safe right now based purely on the patience card.

But it is very plausibly going to be a bad month for us. We have Crystal Palace next weekend and Oliver Glasner again has them being a very hard to beat team, and then we have a newly resurgent Everton under the very familiar David Moyes and he seems to have helped former flop Jack Grealish rediscover his own maverick Aston Villa usefulness.

Whilst there is time for our form to turn around under Potter, given how badly and out of form and understanding we seem to have started the campaign, it is making it difficult to

look ahead and think of those matches that we would ordinarily consider ourselves favourites for all three points in. It is very much key again that we now begin taking points off those sides in and around us, as anything involving the supposed top six won’t define our season, or Potter’s future, and would simply be an unexpected bonus.