West Ham United’s season is going from bad to worse.
The Irons suffered defeats in each of their first two games in the Premier League this term, first a 3-0 loss at Sunderland and then a 5-1 hammering at home against Chelsea.
On Tuesday night, Graham Potter’s side lost another game, this time against Wolves in the Carabao Cup at Molineux.
The pressure is mounting on the Hammers boss, but Jamie O’Hara has directed the blame at the people above Potter because he hasn’t been provided with the tools required to bring success to the club.
Graham Potter during West Ham's defeat to Chelsea.
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Jamie O’Hara makes brutal claim about Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Paqueta at West Ham
West Ham United fans are not happy with how the season has started, and rightly so.
Three defeats in three games, scoring just three goals and conceding 11, is a shocking record, and that is why David Sullivan is contemplating Potter’s future.
TBR Football exclusively revealed after the defeat to Chelsea that Potter has two games to save his job at West Ham, and the first of those has ended in defeat against Wolves.
The clash against Nottingham Forest could be make or break for Potter at West Ham, but O’Hara believes that the Englishman is not in the wrong.
The pundit blamed West Ham’s owners for not giving their manager the tools he needs, and he also branded the sale of Mohammed Kudus to Tottenham as a ‘ridiculous’ decision.
Furthermore, O’Hara has claimed that Lucas Paqueta looks like he has no interest in playing for West Ham anymore.
Speaking about Potter, he said on talkSPORT: “When he came in, I thought it was a really decent appointment. I thought: ‘Okay, that’s not bad. That’s a decent appointment with a half-decent track record. Alright, it didn’t work in Chelsea, but it was a mess there.’
“He has gone there, and I thought ‘that could work, if they give him the tools, I think he can make it work’, but I don’t think they’ve got the tools.
“Apart from Jarrod Bowen… I mean, they sold Kudus to us, which is ridiculous. Paqueta looks like he doesn’t really want to be there.
“Jarrod Bowen is the only player I look at and go ‘he’s the only decent, proper West Ham player’. The rest of them are bang average, really bang average.”
West Ham’s next five games are very difficult
West Ham could’ve done without playing a newly-promoted side like Sunderland away from home on the opening day, and the same applies to Chelsea in their second game.
Those fixtures are behind them now, but things won’t get any easier for the Hammers.
The away games against Nottingham Forest, Everton in their new stadium, and Arsenal will be extremely difficult, while Tottenham and Crystal Palace at home are not easy games either.
There is a serious possibility that West Ham will not win any of those games if things don’t change, and that would be a disaster, especially as all three newly-promoted sides have picked up wins already.