West Ham United have had three managers since May 2024. The latest, Nuno Espirito Santo, joined in September 2025 and was understood to have spent much of Monday with the owners discussing the future, which most took to be his future.
Sack the coach is the standard reflex of owners seeking to distance themselves from the consequences of appointments they made. The real architect of West Ham’s demise and the focus of dissent is, of course, chairman and joint owner David Sullivan.
Nuno inherited a mess and could not clean it up. Any culpability that might attach surrounds a 10-game winless spell in the middle of the season when form fell away, plus judgement that persuaded him the gamble was worth taking in the first place.
Out-of-work coaches are like actors who convince themselves appearing in adverts for washing-up liquids are a legitimate gig. Desperation is the mother of acceptance. Of course I can fix your club Mr Sullivan. Julen Lopetegui and Graham Potter? Pah. It will be different this time.
It rarely is. Nuno is not Pep Guardiola or Luis Enrique. Neither is he the bloke who spent £40m on Maximilian Kilman, or £27m on £30-year-old Niclas Fullkrug. On a four-year contract. He was, however, the assessor who rightly judged them beyond use.
Supporters directed their anger at chairman David Sullivan in protest at the club’s decline (Photo: Getty)In the immediacy of relegation Nuno was the only member of the leadership to answer for the outcome and address those hurting the most, the fans. He expressed contrition, apologised for the club’s obvious failings. Not a peep from Sullivan, who left his seat with 10 minutes remaining, triggering an angry response from the fans.
An hour or so after the final whistle, the club put out a perfunctory statement. “We must face the consequences of failure with honesty, transparency and a determination to repair, focus and rebuild…We will fight with everything we have to return to the top division at the first time of asking. The hard work begins immediately.”
From this we must conclude the club was not working hard enough in the first place, were not fighting with everything they had, so why should we believe the same people are any more capable now?
Sacking the manager is pointless if the conditions that led to his failure, namely those created by the owners, remain untreated. It merely condemns the next in line to the same fate.
Nuno can be truculent and uncommunicative. Some of his selections appeared erratic, but he was working with many players he did not buy alongside a coaching staff he did not appoint.
Sullivan oversaw a £104m loss in the last financial year. The cost of dropping out of the Premier League is estimated at £200m, which will mean cashing on saleable assets like Jarrod Bowen, Crysencio Summerville and Mateus Fernandes.
For Sullivan, an exemplar of the Essex boy stereotype, the purchase of the Hammers was the ultimate play, returning to the manor after his spell in the provinces with Birmingham City.
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Kevin Garside: West Ham’s future has never felt bleaker Michail Antonio: The man I blame for West Ham’s demiseThe move to the 2012 Olympic Stadium was his signature move, a marque London venue that projected substance and status. It has delivered neither and serves only as a symbol of the hatred the fans have for the whole West Ham enterprise under Sullivan.
A decision on Nuno is expected in the coming days. Would that any parting involved Sullivan, a man out of touch with his community, for whom ownership is less about the club and its traditions and more about the power and status that comes with Premier League ownership.
The fans have had enough, not of Nuno so much as the lifestyler who has taken them all down.
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