**The transfer window is over, no more players can be signed, this group of players have to be the ones to keep us in the Premier League, they need to fight, battle, and do everything they can to keep us up.**
Hammers fans aren’t delighted with the transfer window, some might even say our squad has good weaker, at least on paper. Taty Castellanos and Pablo Felipe have been excellent additions, Adama Traore looks like he could be a decent signing, and the late signing of Axel Disasi is uninspiring, but it was needed, especially with Todibo’s suspension.
As for outgoings, the loss of Lucas Paqueta was a tough one to take in our situation. Yes he hadn’t been great for a couple of years, but he was still one of our top scorers with five and started almost every game he could.
I guess one Pablo and Castellanos was technically his replacement before he even left with the switch to 4-4-2, but the fact our only ‘creative’ midfielder is not Mateus Fernandes who is probably better in a deeper role is appalling. What will we do if Fernandes or one of the two strikers gets injured? It’s really poor squad management from the board and Nuno.
Talking of poor squad management, the decision to loan out Ward-Prowse was stupid. He had just made his first squad since Nuno arrived and we loaned him out. After selling both Rodriguez and Irving for small fees it made no sense to loan out JWP, especially to what is a relegation rival.
I don’t think our squad has really got any stronger this month, but what it has done is brought the squad together. Getting rid of Paqueta, someone the manager clearly loved, but someone that clearly didn’t want to be here has clearly brought the boys together.
Since that QPR game the squads attitude seems to have really lifted, the mood in the camp seems better, they look like they’re fighting for each other, the club and for Premier League survival.
The collapse against Chelsea is grounds for the team to lose all of that fight, but Nuno and his coaching staff can’t let that happen. We were excellent in the first half, we need to look at that, if we play near that level for the rest of the season we won’t go down. We need to keep those levels up, keep fighting, and I believe we can get out of it with this group of players.