{"id":73332,"date":"2025-08-17T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73332\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:21:06","slug":"west-ham-hammers-wont-panic-as-under-fire-manager-graham-potter-gets-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73332\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham: Hammers ‘won’t panic’ as under-fire manager Graham Potter gets backing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“He builds a special relationship with players and they understand where he’s coming from.<\/p>\n

“He has a modern mindset and all of those things mean it does take some time to put a team together, to get the team playing the way that you want.<\/p>\n

“West Ham is not a club that panics about its managers. We tend to stick with them, tend to support people, stick with them and see it through.<\/p>\n

“I really hope he does well. He’s a pleasure to work with, he’s incredibly professional.<\/p>\n

“I know his relationship with the players is good. I know he’ll be sitting down with them today to have a long, hard think about what went wrong yesterday, expecting a reaction and expecting to put it right.”<\/p>\n

Potter gave full debuts to Senegal full-back El Hadji Malick Diouf, a \u00a319m signing from Slavia Prague, and Denmark goalkeeper Mads Hermansen, who joined for \u00a320m from Leicester.<\/p>\n

Striker Callum Wilson also made his debut as a substitute following his arrival from Newcastle, while another free transfer, Kyle Walker-Peters, remained on the bench.<\/p>\n

West Ham have yet to bring in a direct replacement for Ghana midfielder Mohammed Kudus, who joined Tottenham for \u00a355m.<\/a><\/p>\n

They performed well in the first half and went close through Jarrod Bowen and Diouf, but faded badly after Eliezer Mayenda’s 61st-minute opener, conceding twice more in the final 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

“I wish yesterday could start all over again,” added Brady. “It’s so tough to take. It’s never easy for the supporters, the players, or the manager to lose 3-0, particularly in the opening game of the season.<\/p>\n

“I spent a lot of time with the manager and the squad in America on the pre-season tour. The spirit among them is fantastic. I know that they’ll be more disappointed, that they’ll be the most disappointed people this morning.<\/p>\n

“I know we’ll see a reaction and I know they want to turn it around and they’ll want to turn it around quickly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“He builds a special relationship with players and they understand where he’s coming from. “He has a modern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-73332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}