West Ham fan Gary Killington from Hammers United says “ambition is missing” at the club and the problems this season are part of a “gradual decline”.<\/p>\n
The Hammers sit in the relegation zone with three points from 15 games, leaving Graham Potter’s job is under threat,<\/a> while fans have voiced their frustration at owner David Sullivan and vice-chair Karren Brady in recent protests.<\/a><\/p>\n “This is about the gradual decline of the club which has happened since winning the Conference League,” Killington told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club. “Immediately after that they put Declan Rice up for sale and we have had a broken midfield since.<\/p>\n “The protests are about 15 years of mismanagement. Up until 2010, we’d had 11 managers in our entire history of 110 years. We could now be looking at our ninth manager in 15 years – if you count the two times we had David Moyes.<\/p>\n “It is unacceptable and shows there is no forward planning. They are making it up as they go along and at the moment we are stuck.<\/p>\n “Even if you look back at the sacking of Julen Lopetegui last season, they hesitated over doing it for six weeks, even though we all knew we were going nowhere as a club.<\/p>\n “Potter was offered a six-month contract – which he declined – before being offered a two-year deal.<\/p>\n “It is always about a short-term fix. But it is also about a whole raft of things when you add in players and the stadium.<\/p>\n “They have taken West Ham and destroyed it.<\/p>\n “Potter’s football is turgid. Your home should be a fortress but it is not. There’s no atmosphere because the stands are too far away from the pitch.<\/p>\n “There never used to be a quiet home game against the likes of Tottenham<\/a> or Chelsea<\/a> – but now it is awful.<\/p>\n “Success for the board is staying up. The ambition is missing.”<\/p>\n Watch the full episode of Monday Night Club on BBC iPlayer<\/a> and listen on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham fan Gary Killington from Hammers United says “ambition is missing” at the club and the problems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-163035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}