Graham Potter’s failure to provide an entertaining brand of football that is popular at [West Ha](https://www.claretandhugh.info/its-all-about-potter-goes-full-david-moyes-on-west-ham-shake-up-the-data/)m has suddenly become of secondary importance as the club nosedive into the relegation zone after just four Premier League matches.
Grim statistics, crowds leaving early and conflict between owners and supporters makes for a pretty unhappy time, all being considered. whatever it is, it could well be the new ‘West Ham way’.
Ask fans or indeed, ask the team and right now, they’d absolutely settle for ‘winning ugly’: A few George Graham type one- nil gritty, dull games would do very nicely thank you as Potter struggles to stop his side caving in and contending an avalanche of goals every game.
If David Moyes wasn’t working right now you could guarantee there’d be calls for his third spell at London Stadium.
Which is what makes the current noise about Portuguese manager Nuno Espirito Santo somewhat ironic.
Having parted company with David Moyes in search of more expansive, entertaining football, the Hammers are now linked again with a coach from the same mould. As _[givemesport.com](https://www.givemesport.com/west-ham-transfer-news-graham-potter-nuno-espirito-santo-premier-league/)_ put it:
_“Nuno Espirito Santo Would Make West Ham Hard to Beat..Most likely though, he would make them harder to score against. That does come with a hint of irony given his final game in the Forest dugout was the 3-0 loss to West Ham, but he is a more similar fit to David Moyes, who led them to glory.”_
Which would certainly be a ‘retrograde’ step for the so called ‘connoisseurs’ (me included, I admit) who called for a more expansive, entertaining brand of football than Moyes provided. -Perhaps, very shortly – _‘Moyes 2.0’_ -Espírito Santo could well be unleashed, low blocks, grim, park the bus defending and all.
However, becoming hard to beat – and then in Espirito Santo’s case, taking his club from relegation places to European qualification, as Moyes did, would make him a hero at West Ham just now. After all, he did it at Nottingham Forest last season.
As the saying goes, “_the more things change, the more they stay the same”: Full circle at West Ham._