West Ham suffered their seventh Premier League defeat of the season on Saturday after being swept aside by Manchester City, who secured a comfortable 4-0 win at the London Stadium.
The Hammers have only managed to win three of their opening 13 league games this season, despite splashing over £100m on new additions during the summer, and it is clear there is still plenty of work for Manuel Pellegrini to do.
It has certainly been a turbulent past 18 months for West Ham fans as the club have hovered in the wrong half of the standings, although one positive has been the fine performances of Marko Arnautovic – who was named the club’s Player of the Year last season.
However, there has been some speculation that the Austria international wants to leave to join a bigger club and some have suggested a Dimitri Payet-like situation could occur – but other supporters believe it is just making a mountain out of a molehill.
We have gathered some of their thoughts below.
No. Stop the speculation. Just an off day….do we have to start a new conspiracy theory?
— Charles Flores (@charlesfloresma) November 26, 2018
Nope. He chased, closed down, dropped into defence when being countered. He wasn’t given anything because we were playing the best team in the league. Your making it up.
— Sam Archer (@westhamsam27) November 26, 2018
He tracked back from a corner to the right back position to make the tackle for a city counter attack… They seems pretty devoted to me
— Danny Guy (@danlar101) November 26, 2018
Statements like this from feeds like this and yourself only hate fuel to a fire that doesn’t even need started. Hes a west ham player now and rumours and talk from west ham fans shouldn’t be happening as everyone else will be talking, don’t need our own fans at it. Back arnie!!
— DanielGardner (@danielgardner8) November 26, 2018
People forget he’s ALWAYS had an attitude, win or lose. That’s his personality and it’s how he plays the game, so no, nothing different.
— Dan (@DJS__97) November 26, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheCole01/status/1067007717846458368
No not at all. He was his normal self. This is just pointless speculation. He always plays with attitude, that’s what makes him.
— James Cole (@TheCole01) November 26, 2018