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Be careful what you wish for....Having stumped up a not inconsiderable £90 Million or so to fund stage one of Manuel Pellegrini's three year plan to take West Ham to that legendary next level, the Hammers hierarchy find themselves in an unusual but not unpleasant situation depending on your take of the status quo.

The dust has now settled on last Saturday's extraordinary 4-3 victory over relegation strugglers Huddersfield Town at the London Stadium, however the fall out has not! It is difficult to explain how a 'top' team can perform so badly for so long against a team destined for the lower divisions and then suddenly play like Barcelona for the remaining 15 minutes unless it is because there is a 'bad apple' in the squad.

West Ham: Fabianski, Cresswell, Diop, Ogbonna, Zabaleta, Noble, Rice, Anderson, Antonio, Lanzini, Arnautovic Subs: Adrian, Balbuena, Snodgrass, Hernandez, Nasri, Masuaku, Perez
Huddersfield: Lossl, Lowe, Kongolo, Stankovic, Smith, Bacuna, Durm, Mooy, Rowe, Pritchard, Grant Subs: Hamer, Billing, Mounie, Zanka, Hadergjonaj, Daly, Puncheon