Former Millwall striker Tony Cascarino believes that West Ham United boss Manuel Pellegrini will get the sack after the team’s poor start to the season.
The Hammers sit rooted to the bottom of the Premier League after their recent clash with Wolves resulted in their fourth defeat of the season, and Cascarino reckons that Pellegrini will be out of the job after their winless start.
The ex-Premier League attacker claimed that it was a massive mistake on West Ham’s part by getting rid of former manager David Moyes, and said that he should have tipped them as one of the teams to go down in his pre-season prediction.
“Last year I said after four games that Frank de Boer had to get the sack at Crystal Palace and I’ve got the same feeling with Manuel Pellegrini, at West Ham,” he wrote in his column for the Times.
“Given the way they are getting beaten, I cannot see a way out for this team. It was a big risk getting rid of David Moyes and I thought after one game of the season that I had made a mess of my pre-season predictions and should have put them down as one of my teams to go down.
“The signs were there in the first game against Liverpool. It was alarming. They could have lost by eight.”
OPINION
This is a very bold claim to make, but Cascarino has given an honest assessment of West Ham’s chances this season. The fact that he thinks Manuel Pellegrini will be sacked after just four games in shows just how much of a mess the club are currently in, and that does not bode well for them. It would not be a shock to see Pellegrini be binned so soon, but it would be a risk by the club’s board to do so after pumping in so much money this summer. Perhaps the team need more time to gel together in order to start getting positive results, but this winless start already signals one of West Ham’s worst starts to a campaign. The need to get points on the board imminently, otherwise they will find themselves in a relegation battle. The money spent in the recent transfer window was to avoid this type of scenario, but at the moment, West Ham are definitely on the way there.
