Ahead of Wolves visit To London Stadium tonight, I was expecting [West Ham’s](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-hams-aldi-manager-hunt-highlights-buy-cheap-buy-twice-philosophy/) media machine to produce the usual ‘_Inside Rush Green_‘ training video showing the squad hard at work: If only to provide evidence to counter the rumoured splits amongst the squad, I was looking for an opportunity to judge team morale and try to ‘spot’ these missing or present.
However -no video. Make of that what you will. The last club PR photo shoot was from Friday or Saturday morning, (before poor Michail’s crash) and there are four _noticeable player inclusions_ in the images from the ‘training gallery on 7th December ‘.
_Definitely on- board for training at least – Edson Alvarez_
Amongst those rumoured to “want out”, Edson Alvarez is featured in the training session which would belie the suggestions that he and Lopetegui are not on speaking terms. ‘Veteran’ of previous bust-up Mohammed Kudus is another pictured training, alongside Niclas Fullkrug (good to see him back in training anyway) and rumoured out-of-favour goal keeper Alphonse Areola.
So, perhaps the suggestion that there is a ‘gang of five’ who allegedly want-out is less based on fact than has been suggested?
Certainly there are no signs of Jean-Clair Todibo in the training shoot, which does support the generally accepted narrative that he has been excluded by Lopetegui and now trains with the academy players. Quite how the squad will perform on the pitch tonight is anyone’s guess. Events in the last seven days have been pretty unique in West Ham history.