Relegation = Reset?
I genuinely don’t understand why some West Ham fans are convincing themselves relegation would be some brilliant “fresh start” for the club.
On paper, I get it. Younger hungry players, academy lads finally getting real opportunities, proper away days again, no VAR, rebuilding the identity of the club etc. In theory, that sounds great.
But the problem is none of that actually matters while David Sullivan is still here.
That’s the part people keep ignoring. The ownership is the one constant through every failed rebuild, every short-term decision, every panic appointment, every bargain-bin transfer strategy.
If we went down, does anyone genuinely believe it would suddenly become this smart long-term project? Or would it just be the same cycle again? Cheap signings looking for a final payday, another manager who’s already been sacked elsewhere, trying to scrape back up instead of actually building something properly from the ground up.
People talk about relegation like it automatically wipes the slate clean, but it doesn’t when the person making the decisions is still the same. That’s why I can’t see it being a “reset” at all under Sullivan just more chaos in a lower division.