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In preparation for the club’s ‘mass-axing’ in the summer window, Hammers fans can expect over 15 players on the chopping block, with some of those being long-serving members for the club.

One of which is Tomas Soucek, the Czech has been very eager for the club to offer him a new contract, yet the people above feel otherwise and they aren’t confident to extend further on his current deal, and a departure in the summer from the Irons is looking more and more likely.

David Moyes has been sniffing after him ever since his return to the Premier League, and you get the feeling that the Czech chapter is coming to a close with Coufal also set to leave with no extension in sight.

Despite the Scotsman wanting Tommy, it won’t be all that easy. A large fee is to be expected but not as much as initially anticipated as Potter is willing to let him go as he doesn’t see him as a concrete player for his future plans.

Is it the right decision to let Tommy go? If his departure were to happen, it would leave a massive hole in the leadership aspect for the squad, something of which the Hammers have severely lacked in. A lot of fans have always been 50/50 with Soucek, but you definitely can’t fault the commitment he gives to this club and the leadership he provides on the pitch and in the dressing room.

With the players that do and don’t need to go, Soucek can’t be that high on the axe list. There are plenty of other players who should depart before the Czech and he should certainly be kept considering our current circumstances, but with the club stalling contract talks, can you blame him if his head went elsewhere?

It’s hard to not sound like a broken record with the recent results but today was the definition of lacklustre and lame.

The performance was an embarrassment, the tactical decisions were appalling, and this is a low that many fans didn’t even anticipate us reaching. A starting defence of a back four we knew wouldn’t work, and the midfield gets worse each week.

James Ward-House was appalling, his work ethic is nowhere near Premier League quality, League 1 at best! It was so bad to the point where it makes you question why did we sell Flynn Downes? He was miles better than Housey today.

Boos at halftime around the bowl, even louder boos at full time and fully deserved so, to not beat one of the worst teams in the history of the competition goes to show the state of this squad, season and club.

Potter needs to figure out something because we can’t find any bit of consistency nor play style. Not beating this Southampton squad is a sackable offence.

In terms of the attack, our numerous chances and from the few passages of play we had, they seemed to all end up in the feet of Mohammed Kudus, who must’ve had his ‘no shooting’ boots on. It felt as if he was repelled from the goal; he would consistently hold up the ball and hope that someone else would turn up.

Not to mention the substitute choices at the end… why would any manager take off Jarrod? He’s one of the only attackers who will run the 90 no matter how knackered he is, we still take the captain off and then go concede.

There’s 5 games to go, and thankfully, we can now count them out on one hand. The misery isn’t over yet, but it’s getting closer.

It’ll come as no shock to Hammers fans that it’s yet another window where the club has to sign a marquee striker, Uncle Ingy’s dreamland contract is coming to a close, Micky is set to sign a new deal but isn’t reliable enough and Fulkrug is unable to play for more than 45 minutes!

Since joining the club, Potter and his team have had their eyes set on Canadian international Jonathan David, he’s been the ‘number one priority’ and continues to be so, well… unless you want to listen to Claret & Hugh! Who’s now suggesting that Potter out of nowhere has put the deal on hold due to having ‘second thoughts’.

I’m sure it couldn’t possibly be dithering Dave from above now believing that the rumoured £27,500,000 deal is too much for someone of David’s calibre, and he’d much rather get someone on the cheap from somewhere else to still bring in the same brand exposure as the Canadian would.

Sully has already gotten to his puppets, and the fake rumours are already starting to linger around six games before the end of the season! That’s got to be some record of some sort, but then again, early business is what Potter will want so the rumours are expected.

Early business isn’t appreciated by those above as we all know, and especially by the man who will be affirming or reprehending our targets! But, we’ll undoubtedly be able to get plenty of easy business through Salthouse, who has Walker-Peters and Harwood-Bellis under his wing that we’re interested in already.

This window will be utterly chaotic with the media and the puppets out in full force, how long until we’re ‘interested’ in Hee-Chan Hwang from Wolves?