BBC Sport’s chief soccer information reporter Simon Stone:
Even when they’re being subjected to the sort of criticism they’re getting in the mean time, West Ham’s possession have a tendency to not go in for knee-jerk reactions on the subject of coping with managers.
Chairman David Sullivan is extra seemingly to offer somebody a recreation or two further fairly than act when there may be nonetheless a risk the state of affairs may be pulled spherical.
Clearly although, heavy dwelling defeats by two of the membership’s fiercest rivals and slipping into the underside three just isn’t look, particularly when Potter’s appointment final season did not set off the development hoped for.
If there’s a slight optimistic so far as Potter is anxious, it comes from figuring out we’re nonetheless extremely early into the brand new season.
Julen Lopetegui collected solely 5 factors from his first six Premier League video games in cost final season and it was January earlier than he was sacked. In 2022-23, West Ham collected 5 factors from seven video games with David Moyes in cost.
The secondary level is that West Ham made 4 signings between 29 August and the switch deadline closing two days later. Given there was a global break in between, how a lot time has Potter needed to work together with his new-look squad?
Subsequent week, unbeaten Crystal Palace go to London Stadium for a recreation the place enormous demonstrations towards the possession are deliberate. If that recreation does not go effectively, a tense ambiance might flip poisonous.
After that it is a journey to Merseyside and a gathering with Moyes’ bettering Everton earlier than a visit to Arsenal, the place West Ham have gained on their previous two visits, together with beneath Potter in February.
That feels a extra apparent time to reassess, even when many West Ham followers really feel eliminating the supervisor is just the beginning of the change they actually need.
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