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West Ham’s turbulent start to the 24/25 season
National World - LocalTV
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27/01/2025
A review on the past few months for WHUFC.
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So James, looking at West Ham and their season so far, it's been a bit of a strange season in terms
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of how West Ham fans might look back at this one. Obviously, so much success over the last
00:11
couple of seasons, the back end of David Moyes' tenure. Then they depart ways with him, bringing
00:16
Julian Lopetegui, a manager who's had incredible experience at some incredible jobs managerial-wise,
00:25
the likes of Spain and Real Madrid, obviously kept Wolves up in the Premier League as well.
00:31
So he had been in the Premier League prior and clearly wanted to continue and test himself at
00:36
a bit of a higher level with more of a budget to work with. That didn't work out. How do you sort
00:41
of, and obviously Graham Potter comes in, we'll get to Potter, but how do West Ham fans sort of
00:46
review this season so far and what it's presented? Because it's maybe not gone 100% to plan.
00:53
That's an understatement. I think a lot of fans, towards the end of David Moyes' time,
01:01
were feeling like they wanted something new. They wanted something different. They were
01:05
fully appreciative of what Moyes had achieved, beyond anyone's wildest dreams, what he did at
01:11
the club. But towards the end, that second half of last season, there were cracks beginning to show
01:17
in David Moyes' West Ham. It just felt like we want a nicer style of football. We want to be able
01:23
to go to games and still get the results, but then kind of also be entertained. We were no longer
01:28
being entertained. The Lopetegui appointment baffled a lot of fans. Yes, he has pedigree.
01:38
He won the Europa League with Sevilla. He's managed Real Madrid, managed Spain,
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and as you said, kept Wolves up. But he kind of didn't fit the profile that a lot of fans
01:48
really expected the club to go for when it comes to moving away from what we were expecting and
01:56
what we were getting under David Moyes. But there were a lot of fans that were going,
02:00
OK, he's not really the profile, but let's just see how he gets on. Let's give him a chance.
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He even said before he was appointed in an interview somewhere that he felt like he had
02:09
unfinished business in the Premier League after the way that he'd left Wolves. So I was clinging
02:14
onto that going, OK, well, if he feels like he's got unfinished business, he's going to hopefully
02:18
hit the ground running and he's going to be a success. And it just didn't work. And within
02:22
three or four games, it was very obvious that it wasn't the right fit. Spent around 150 million on
02:28
some good players. One or two players are still question marks over, but the majority of that
02:33
business was very good. And it just didn't work. And I think the club left it too long.
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Probably could have could have made a change a month or two before they eventually did.
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But there were just times when you didn't really know, we didn't really understand what the tactics
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were. We didn't really understand. You could tell the players didn't really understand what they
02:53
were doing half the time. You know, Aaron Wan-Bissaka was being deployed as a right winger
02:59
half the time, even though he's most known for his defensive work, his defensive ability,
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and he was being played well up the pitch, way too far, being caught out of position.
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And it just it just felt like there wasn't any identity. Now, under David Moyes,
03:12
we had an identity and there's an identity that we didn't really we no longer wanted.
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We were happy for it for a while. We were happy to be known as the team that were very defensive
03:21
and very conservative and 10 men beyond the ball and beat teams on the counter attack.
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And it worked for a period of time. We wanted a more attractive identity and we went from that
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to then not having any identity at all. So it was a frustrating start to the season,
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given the expectations at West Ham, especially amongst the fan base is so much different now
03:42
after what David Moyes achieved. It needed a manager to come in and really, you know,
03:48
grab the ball by the horns and really take the club where the fans and where the club
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really feel as it should be, not challenging the top four or winning European trophies every season,
03:59
but challenging in the top half of the table at the very least. And Lopetegui,
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we just lost that under him, really. It was a very frustrating start to the season.
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