West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady backs Graham Potter after embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Sunderland. 

The Hammers opened their 25/26 Premier League season with a 3-0 defeat to newly promoted Sunderland, however, Karren Brady isn’t panicking yet. The 56-year-old has full trust that the former Brighton and Chelsea manager is the right man to take us forward.

Unsurprisingly, Brady spoke to talkSPORT, she said: “Graham is a forward-thinking manager. He’s sort of calm under pressure, he’s very detailed in his approach, he’s a great man-manager of players.

“He builds a special relationship with players and they understand where he’s coming from. He has a modern mindset and all of those things mean it does take some time to put a team together, to get the team playing the way that you want.

“West Ham is not a club that panics about its managers. We tend to stick with them, tend to support people, stick with them and see it through. I really hope he does well. He’s a pleasure to work with, he’s incredibly professional.

“I know his relationship with the players is good. I know he’ll be sitting down with them today to have a long, hard think about what went wrong yesterday, expecting a reaction and expecting to put it right.”

Next up for the Irons is a return to the London Stadium on Friday to face Chelsea. If we see a similar performance to what we saw on Saturday, the London Stadium could get toxic very quickly. Obviously the performances on the pitch aren’t helping, but the fans are really angry at the board, for the first time in a while.

The past couple of years, they haven’t got too involved in transfer dealings, but this summer it’s completely changed. They did to do well to sign Potter’s targets Malick Diouf and Mads Hermansen, however, Kyle Walker-Peters and Callum Wilson were signed by Sullivan when Potter reportedly didn’t even want them.

We also haven’t signed players in midfield which everyone knows was our biggest problem last season, the board are claiming poverty, and maybe that’s true, but the fact we have spent £30m this summer and not signed a midfielder is pathetic.