A man who deserted West Ham as a player to "go to a bigger club" in the form of Everton should never have been our manager in the first place. Last season West Ham were dire and Slaven Bilic should have been fired after we stayed up only becuase some teams were even more dire than we were. Decisions such as keeping Randolph in goal rather than Adrian cost us our normal status of mid table mediocrity. having been saying Bilic out more or less since his appointment, I am at least conistent.
Three games into this season we are bottom of the league and have conceeded 10 goals. The club tweets that we must expect to lose some games and now is a time to stick together. Up to a point. Losing away to Man United is okay although 4-0 is not a great scoreline. Losing away to Southampton is less acceptable. Surely a team that had spent more in the transfer window than 13 other Premier Leaguie sides should hope for a point from that game?
But to lose 3 nil away to Newcastle is just not acceptable. Newcastle are piss poor and were everyone's favourites to go down until the mighty Irons suddenly made them look like Brazil. Surely to respond to that crushing defeat by saying "we expect to lose some games" is just not acceptable. He has had his chance He was given the budget to spend heavily. Bilic has blown it.
Hanging on to a proven loser for too long is the sort of blundering error that saw West Ham relegated in the past. As i contemplate the manner of that Newcastle defeat, I think back to the Glen Roeder nightmare season. The sooner Slaven is shown the door so he can "go to a bigger club" the better.