West Ham fans’ patience is running thin for Graham Potter.

Since joining the club in January, West Ham have won just two games under Graham Potter. While they’re unlikely to get relegated, that’s more to do with the teams below them than anything else. In fact, with the way they’ve played, they deserve to go down.

It’s been an absolutely horrific season for Hammers fans, and any hope of building upon the foundations David Moyes laid has been destroyed.

Unsurprisingly, fans are frustrated and journalist Katherine Lucas hints that Potter could soon be on thin ice. “West Ham do not look noticeably better than they were under Julen Lopetgui, who oversaw just six league wins in six months. Lopetegui’s football was about as depressingly unimaginative as you are likely to see in the top flight,” she wrote for The i Paper.

“The wounds are too often entirely self-inflicted, and much of it comes from Potter’s uber-cautious reluctance to start on the front foot, even with the most attacking starting XI he had available to him.”

“Yet it is now six matches without a win, which even Lopetegui never managed. The enormity of the rebuild was obvious when Potter got here but it is now looking more urgent than ever.”

However, she does recognise that not everything is entirely Potter’s fault, and many of the issues come from the mess his predecessors left behind. “He has largely been thrown under the bus by a recruitment policy that led to the premature departure of director of football Tim Steidten, with no replacement forthcoming.”

“The consequence: a vacuum of power in east London filled occasionally with hot air from the board about a vision for which there is no real evidence.”

“The fear is that Potter – whose side are averaging fewer goals per game than they were under Lopetegui – is never going to be given the tools he needs to succeed where his predecessors failed. Ever the diplomat, he is towing the party line, insisting they do not need a major overhaul. That, frankly, is not true.”

“West Ham fans have shown patience – little wonder it is starting to wear thin,” she concluded.

Unfortunately, the boards attempt to modernise their transfer system by bringing in Tim Steidten caused more issues than anyone would have expected. This has left Potter with a harder task than he should have, but it certainly wouldn’t have been this complicated if he was appointed directly after Moyes’ departure.

Ultimately, it’s going to be impossible to judge Potter fully until at least the end of 2025, but is it unrealistic to say that he may not even get that long? If he cannot find results between now and the end of the season things could get extremely ugly in the stands, and the board’s hand may be forced.