West Ham Progressing

It seems West Ham won't be relegated this season. The Sun quotes Lars Jacobsen saying,

"We will be sure to get away from those bottom positions. There is no doubt that the team is clearly a top-10 side. There are plenty of good players and there is enormous potential in the team.

"But now we just have to get out of the bottom region first."


In The Mirror Avram Grant says West Ham are getting better,

"We lost the first four games of the season, but there was no panic here.

"When you have a vision, you need to be sure of ­yourselves. That means not panicking when you have a bad result, or thinking everything is great when you have a good result.

"We had a good pre-season, but it was always going to be a hard start ... The games we lost were against teams who were better than us – Aston Villa, United and Chelsea – but we deserved more against Bolton.

"Villa was the worst game I have seen, but we have progressed and I can see us getting better. We have now shown we know how to play together."