Could West Ham United go down to the Championship at the end of the season?
West Ham are 16th in the Premier League table at the moment with just eight points from nine matches.
The Hammers’ recent results and performances have been disappointing, and pressure has increased on manager Slaven Bilic following last week’s embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion at the London Stadium in the Premier League.
The London club are currently level on points with third-from-bottom Everton, and former West Ham striker Wright believes that Bilic’s side are in danger of getting relegated to the Championship at the end of the last season.
“They are in danger,” said Wright about West Ham on Match of the Day 2 on BBC One on Sunday night (10:30pm, October 22, 2017).
“They are in danger because they don’t seem to have any energy about them and there’s teams who are playing a lot better than them.”
Meanwhile, former Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Danny Murphy has said that West Ham will struggle to be anything more than a mid-table club at this stage in their history.
“Even though West Ham have the fourth-highest average attendance in the Premier League this season, their fans need to understand that they will struggle to be anything more than a mid-table club at this stage in their history,” Murphy wrote in The London Evening Standard. “The move to the Olympic Stadium really set them back and they signed too many average players during the summer of 2016.”
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