{"id":274763,"date":"2025-11-10T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:26:08","slug":"former-hammers-superstar-joe-cole-details-exactly-what-nuno-needs-come-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274763\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hammers superstar Joe Cole details exactly what Nuno needs come January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pundits, journalists and columns like Claret and Hugh have their own opinions on where West Ham have gone wrong and what is needed to turn the club around: Few know better than former players and Joe Cole is one who still has a soft spot for the club after two spells as a Hammer.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with the release of his new biography, Cole has been taking to givemesport.com<\/a> about \u00a0West Ham\u2019s position in world football and the potential the club has if only the leadership but knew how to tap into the very real worldwide support which the Hammers enjoy:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in terms of potential, West Ham\u2019s is massive. And if West Ham could get up to speed but keep the charm and the realness, then it will be like lighting a flame under the club:<\/p>\n

Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019ll be nothing stopping it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating, really, because with the right leadership that club can be right at the top of English football. It really can.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And on the clubs predicament at present, Cole, still clearly passionate about West Ham, has no doubts as to the prescription required to put West Ham back on track after years of dreadful recruitment:<\/p>\n

\u201cNuno\u2019s coming in for the clean-up and West Ham fans have got to get on board with that, because it\u2019s not going to be pretty. That\u2019s and it can\u2019t be pretty. But the lads need to stick together with Nuno and get the best out of themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut West Ham need to invest in January. It\u2019s like being stuck in a muddy field at night and along comes a taxi. The fare might be \u00a350 but you\u2019ve got to pay it to get home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Cole pulls no punches in his frank assessment of the way to fix West Ham<\/p>\n

Whether the board and Sullivan are willing to \u2018pay the price\u2019 to get out of the relegation \u2013 shaped muddle field is another matter: Signing past-it players on free transfers won\u2019t cut it anymore and hopefully the only upside of sitting within the relegation zone for another two weeks is that it will force the board\u2019s hands come January to stop sitting on their hands and enable Nuno to complete the \u2018clean up operation\u2019 that Joe Cole recommends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pundits, journalists and columns like Claret and Hugh have their own opinions on where West Ham have gone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274763","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=274763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}