West Ham United boss David Moyes is facing an uphill battle to keep the club in the Premier League.
West Ham have made their worst ever start to a Premier League season with just two wins from 15 so far.
With only 10 points on the board and the club in the relegation zone David Moyes has it all to do to keep the Hammers up.
Moyes was only brought in on a six month contract at West Ham and has lost three and drawn one of his first four games in charge.
And things don’t get any easier for the Scot either with daunting London derbies against Chelsea and Arsenal up next.
So could Paul Merson’s cutting prediction about Moyes at West Ham come true by the time the whistle is blown at the end of the game against the Gunners next Wednesday?
“You’re looking at them fixtures, you wouldn’t be surprised if they’e still in the bottom three come what Christmas,” Merson told The Debate.
“Then you’re virtually halfway through the season so there’s a lot of trouble at West Ham at the moment…the six months (contract) tells you everything of where David Moyes is in his career at the moment as a manager and you’re talking what four years ago he was the manager of one of the biggest clubs in the world.
“He’s got it all to prove. But six months could be six games looking at those fixtures.”
Whether West Ham would consider another managerial change so soon remains to be seen as David Sullivan and David Gold tend to stick by their managers.
That tendency is partly to blame for the mess the club finds itself in this season having stuck by – and often undermined – Slaven Bilic before his sacking last month.
There are a number of candidates out of work at the moment which may tempt the owners into action in search of the new manager bounce Moyes has failed to deliver.
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