{"id":519177,"date":"2025-10-22T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519177\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:37:11","slug":"the-quick-fix-required-instant-improvement-ahead-of-leeds-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519177\/","title":{"rendered":"The quick-fix required | Instant improvement ahead of Leeds encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many news sources are focussed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/the-aws-outage-that-dioutage-throws-brentford-clash-into-chaos-as-west-ham-caught-in-tech-meltdownsrupted-football-how-west-ham-was-affected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham United\u2019<\/a>s lack of squad depth and how the Hammers \u2018must\u2019 dive into the transfer window in January in a desperate bid to save their season.<\/p>\n<p>None of which helps come Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>If performances continue to be as pathetic as the Brentford \u2018effort\u2019, West Ham could well have been condemned to relegation by the time the window comes around.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Improvement is required now. Today, not January or February. It is all well and good lamenting the failures of recent transfer windows but that won\u2019t secure the points for West Ham to stay within reach of \u2018the pack\u2019 now starting to open up ground in the Premier League survival race.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Irving surely not up to speed for Premier League\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andy Irving, sadly, may be a lovely guy but has no place in West Ham\u2019s starting line up. Potter\u2019s signing of Soungoutou Magassa in the last week of the summer window has provided West Ham with a combative, pacy defensive midfielder who, right now, would provide the Irons with a better option that Irving who looked slow and every inch the \u2018squad\u2019 player.<\/p>\n<p>Quite how Nuno\u2019s muddled, Lopetegui-like confused team selection settled on Irving instead of Magassa- who can tell: Especially after the 22 year-old\u2019s first showings under Esp\u00edrito Santo where he looked raw but capable against Everton and Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the slowest teams I\u2019ve seen in Premier League history\u201d is how Sky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkySportsPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1980363708690812966%7Ctwgr%5Ece512935352d57f4fe3b9da3d79d488e778a9938%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.footballfancast.com%2Fnuno-santo-must-drop-west-ham-star-irving%2F\">Jamie Carragher<\/a> described West Ham\u2019s woeful athleticism \u2013 and Magassa, preferably alongside Freddie Potts and Mateus Fernandes- would transform the Irons\u2019 midfield performance and at least provide a quick fix: \u00a0Pace to combat the threat as Leeds are surely licking their lips ahead of Friday night\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many news sources are focussed on West Ham United\u2019s lack of squad depth and how the Hammers \u2018must\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-519177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115416914048158558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}