West Ham Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 25/26

Ooh. Todibo back but Disasi partnering Mavs. Good call.

After Liverpool beat Notts Forest 0-1. Crazy VAR ending in injury time. Great for us. But Perieira is a decent manager, so not so good.

Remaining West Ham United PremierLeague Fixtures (2025/26)

February 2026

• Sat Feb 28: vs Liverpool(A)
• Wed Mar 4: vs Fulham (H)
• —West Ham also have an FA Cup tie on Mar 9(not a league fixture).

March 2026

• Sat Mar 14: vs Manchester City(H)
• Sun Mar 22: vs Aston Villa(H)

April 2026

• Sat Apr 11: vs WolverhamptonWanderers (H)
• Sat Apr 18: vs Crystal Palace(A)
• Sat Apr 25: vs Everton (H)

May 2026

• Sat May 2: vs Brentford (A)
• Sat May 9: vs Arsenal (H)
• Sun May 17: vs Newcastle United(A)

Nottingham Forest

March 2026

• Sun Mar 1: vs Brighton & HoveAlbion (A)
• Wed Mar 4: vs Manchester City(A)
• Sun Mar 15: vs Fulham (H)
• Sun Mar 22: vs Tottenham Hotspur(H)

April 2026

• Sat Apr 11: vs Aston Villa(H)
• Sat Apr 18: vs Burnley (H)
• Sat Apr 25: vs Sunderland(A)

May 2026

• Sat May 2: vs Chelsea (A)
• Sat May 9: vs Newcastle United(H)
• Sun May 17: vs Manchester United(A)
• Sun May 24: vs AFC Bournemouth(H)

Or whoever you copied those fixtures off needs one, West Ham absolutely do not have 7 remaining home fixtures 😉

And Villa, 3 of your next 4 away…it's not that hard to look up

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Yeah, like I said, I need a secretary.

Point is, points will be hard to get for both teams, so despite looking good of late, we need Forest to gain less ground than us.

No **** 🙄

factually we have 6 home games

Looks like Santo wants to load up the midfield to snuff out build-up, but where it can easily switch to a 4-2-3-1 on the attack. West Ham used to be disastrous in terms of a goal against them easily achieved with sustained attack in the first 15 minutes of a game. That's vastly improved, and now they score the most in the Premiership in the first-half, without conceding much, whereas Liverpool have been slow to start, with many of their goals occurring in the last 15 minutes including injury-time. I would imagine Santo's plan is to try to score early then defend. The latter part, as we all know is the most frustrating part of the Hammers' game.

FFS. 3 set-pieces to make it 3-0 in the first half. It's not as if the coaching staff haven't been unaware of this Achille's heel for some time now.

Great result, albeit I nearly had a heart attack watching the last ten minutes - City did us no favours…

Even though there was 7 changes to the now-standard line-out from last game, not pleased that it had to go to extra-time and then penalties - despite the mainly leisurely pace (except for speedy Gonzales Pablo who was haring about the place until replaced in the 60 minute) : everyone was shagged by the end of it, which is not good when we have to face man City on Saturday, and still in the process of trying leap-frog other teams battling for survival as well. Yeah, they have Champions league on Wednesday, but they have a far bigger squad with better players.

My heart sank when Mavs stepped up against Kelleher for the potentially winning peno, but I punched the air when he rifled it into the top corner. Through to the quarter finals in a few weeks, at home against Leeds.

Spirit on and off the pitch looks sky high - that's got to be good for the run in

There was a time when I'd see Mav's name on the teamsheet and roll my eyes in expectation of an inevitable howler. Now he's a stalwart. Great to see Hermandsen come back from the dead as well and show how good he is.

I'd say all Hammers' hearts sank when that cross floated in to the top corner. Yes it was a cross. Tonight, they were staunch against a City desperate to catch up to Arsenal.

With Leeds drawing last night, it's still a 4 horse race to get/stay above the finish line.