Four games, four defeats, 10 goals conceded, just two scored and zero points make grim reading for West Ham United fans.
Manuel Pellegrini was appointed to usher in a new era for the Hammers.
Backed with £100 million in the transfer market the least supporters expected was a more comfortable season.
But an all too familiar pattern is unfolding in East London.
With a daunting run of fixtures West Ham face the very real prospect of being involved in a season long relegation scrap.
The Hammers faithful can barely fathom what is unfolding at the club this season.
Many console themselves with the narrative that it is still early days.
That it will take time for Pellegrini to get the team performing in his system.
But after the dismal home defeat to Wolves on Saturday things look bleak.
Supporters growing sick of tired rhetoric
There are no signs that West Ham will ever be a competitive, cohesive team playing in the Chilean’s preferred formation.
And many supporters are already sick of hearing tired rhetoric to the contrary from star names like Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hernandez.
Before the Wolves game, Hernandez was the latest to tow the party line on the official website.
“We are playing with a winning mentality and playing very offensive and attacking football,” Hernandez told whufc.com.
“That’s what the manager loves and, talking about myself as a striker, I love it when a manager comes and creates that sort of atmosphere, telling every player to be confident with the ball.
West Ham fans aren’t stupid
“I definitely feel things are coming together.”
With the benefit of hindsight the Mexican’s comments are nothing short of laughable.
West Ham fans are a knowledgeable bunch.
They won’t have the wool pulled over their eyes.
‘Lazy, pathetic’
Hammers fans know when things aren’t working, when something isn’t right, when players aren’t giving their all.
Alan Shearer rightly and brilliantly tore the team apart on Match of the Day labelling them ‘lazy and pathetic’.
At least Arnautovic, who has flopped as the lone striker so far this season, is a touch more realistic.
He told the official site after Wolves that things must improve fast or there will be ‘big trouble’.
Less talk, more action
But even then there is too much talk from the Austrian.
His comments come from the heart.
They lift the lid on the atmosphere in the dressing room but it is hardly reassuring.
If anything his admissions only add to a feeling of ineptitude around the club.
Four games in and some fans are already willing the season to end.
So here’s a novel idea.
Less talk, more action.
Bunker down, knuckle down. Stop telling everyone things are coming together and go out on the pitch and prove it.
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