West Ham ‘stupid decision’ as Potter transfer mars Premier League history

Nuno Espirito Santo and West Ham seemed like the perfect combination but things are already starting to fall apart. would make history by dismissing the Portuguese.

A common marketing refrain for the Premier League is that anyone can beat anyone, despite the recent addition that the former ‘anyone’ can no longer include Wolves, and the latter actually means Liverpool.

There are very few managers who exude the energy of such a low-key character Nuno Espirito Santobut he has somehow come to define this season and the inherent silliness of this cliché.

It started with his Nottingham Forest hammering of Brentford 3-1 at the weekend. A fortnight later, Nuno’s side were humiliated in a 3–0 defeat to West Ham, giving the Portuguese their first managerial casualty of the campaign. And now, as replacement for Hammers manager Graham Potter – Which suddenly presides over the most expensive footballer in Premier League history – Nuno has overseen the home loss to Brentford well, who remain the only side to lose to the 51-year-old or Forest all season.

“We have a problem,” Nuno said twice in a post-match debrief. He blamed the team’s selection for everything, including an unrecognizable striker at left-back and right-back at right-back, and his substitutions, including a triple defender change at half-time and a fifth and final roll of the dice that replaced a defensive midfielder with a defensive midfielder with a similar team.

At times you could see where Mr. Murnaksis was coming from when he wanted a little more ambition and adventure.

Instead, Nuno puts him through the kind of identity crisis he has become synonymous with. A once-impenetrable filling in the Mourinho-Kante sandwich at Spurs has sparked a culture war at Nottingham Forest. Before going to the Civil War in East London. At some point you just have to admit that you and your choices may be part of the problem.

“I think we all relate. You can feel it with your own fans. You can see that they belong. Then the anxiety becomes quieter and quieter,” he said of the disconnect with supporters, adding that “it’s up to us”.

It was a far cry from that victory over Brentford at the City Ground in August, when “the energy of the fans” drove Forest forward as they “controlled” their visitors. The atmospheric void at the boycotted London Stadium only affected the bees further.

This resulted in an uncomfortable nono-flavored relegation zone affecting the western ham. While the main suspect in the crime scenes is far from the one who threatens the hammer and the woods – and his fingerprints have long since been erased by the wolves – these are boundaries and personal touches hard to ignore.

No manager has ever been associated with two Premier Leagues in the same season. No manager has ever been sacked twice in the same Premier League season. Nuno stands on the cusp of history despite the fact that West Ham’s first-ever start to the last leg of the league, starting with four consecutive home defeats, ranks 18th and 19th in the table relatively far down the list of offenders for Messi.

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It’s not entirely unheard of for a manager to take down two clubs in one campaign. Dave Bassett was in all sorts of trouble in 1987/88, ending up in charge of Sheffield United as they slipped into the Third Division to replace top-flight Watford in the second, sacked by the Hornets in January.

Bassett once told a journalist that the decade chronicled Watford’s rise and subsequent decline. “For him to immediately offer it and accept me. It was a monumental mistake.”

The circumstances were slightly different – Bassett took the Watford job in June rather than October and was replaced by Graham Taylor instead of Potter – but he has long suspected that he was “standing squarely in a round hole at the wrong time”.

Perhaps it’s buyer’s remorse that deters both Nuno and David Sullivan. What felt like the perfect appointment for an available mid-table safety net manager for a mid-table club bereft of an attached coach, the two have led elite wings to varying degrees of European success, quickly disintegrating the dugout to reveal a myriad of problems beyond a mere change of booster.

In hindsight, it was perhaps foolish for Nuno to internalize these problems, especially after navigating the managerial minefield at Forest, and continuing to stick to plasters for West Ham. Hemorrhage which is their player recruitment policy.

The club that once praised being too good to go down May not really be good enough to live in any season. While promoted teams looked at least vaguely on the blueprint for survival, there was little sign of the bed bug levels that dragged a couple into orbit for last season.

It would be a remarkably bleak outlook for West Ham even if their only win in nine games so far against the manager tasked with rescuing them at the time was not.