Don’t feed the vultures, a sense of West Ham perspective over project Pellegrini after Hammers horror show

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The feelgood factor around West Ham United going into the new season was intoxicating, but it didn’t last long did it?

There was a sense of inevitability about the 4-0 humbling dished out by Liverpool from kick-off at Anfield.

From the first minute West Ham looked inferior.

But more worryingly for some fans they looked leggy and lacking in desire, particularly when they went 1-0 down.

Everyone from Pellegrini to Arthur Masuaku and Mark Noble was criticised.

Perhaps only new signings Felipe Anderson, Lukasz Fabianski and Andriy Yarmolenko emerged with any credit.

I say ‘perhaps’ because nowadays it is difficult to tell.

Sense of perspective needed in an impatient world

The instantaneous way people can react to a football match on social media is bad for the game.

Football fans in general have become ridiculously shortsighted and impatient.

Even knowledgeable, loyal fans like West Ham’s, there is a growing generation who cannot see past one bad performance, or put it into any context.

Yes West Ham were terrible at Anfield. Yes they must improve fast given their difficult opening fixtures.

But a sense of perspective is needed.

Project Pellegrini is still embryonic

Let’s look at the facts.

Liverpool are three seasons into project Klopp, hundreds of millions have been spent. And still no silverware.

Project Pellegrini is one game in. Ninety minutes.

West Ham may have spent £100 million but in reality that is what was needed just to keep pace with this increasingly competitive two-tier division.

Naive? Maybe, but everybody just calm down

Pellegrini is tasked with not only improving on two torrid seasons flirting with relegation, but changing the entire philosophy at West Ham. Giving the team an identity, a discernible style of play.

Yes Pellegrini was perhaps naive to play a rigid high line.

But perhaps the players did not play the system correctly and time is needed to gel.

Time is not a virtue afforded in modern day football but West Ham fans need to keep things in perspective and not feed the media vultures that are already circling.