Out Of Ideas And Struggling; Why West Ham Were Right To Sack Slaven Bilic .

As Slaven Bilic's 28 months reign as West Ham United's manager came to an end last week, the Croat might feel unfairly treated considering his record exploits in his debut season (2015-2016) yet a part of him will be sincere to accept that he lacked ideas and creativity when needed most soon after his first season in East London.

Having led the Hammers to a record sixth place finish in the 2015-2016 season (their joint best league finish in a century) as well as finishing ahead of the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool in addition to playing one of the best attacking style of football in the league with Frenchman Dimitri Payet pulling the strings in central midfield, it felt like the West London club would only go higher and challenge for the League title the next season. Fast forward to the end of the 2016-2017 season and West Ham flirted with relegation all season despite finishing 11th as well as collecting 17 points less from the previous season. This is not all as the Hammers also made the most individual mistakes that led to goals , lost most points from winning positions which is made worse due to the fact that Payet ended the season as their most creative player despite moving to Marseille in January. West Ham became a laughing stock in his second season unable to play with the attacking Vibe and creativity witnessed in his first season despite playing in their new Olympic stadium (more than 50,000 capacity). 

Despite the results of last season, Bilic was given a lifeline by the board likewise £45 million spent on new players Pablo Zabaleta, Joe Hart, Xavier Hernandez and record signing Marko Arnautovic who has received more red cards than goals so far . In total £100 Million has been spent by the club in player sigings  since his appointment with little or no success as the endless list of flops continues to pile up Sofiane Feghouli, Ashley Fletcher, Alvaro Arbeloa, Havard Nordveit, Simone Zaza, Robert Snodgrass and Gokhan Tore to mention but a few with only Dede Ayew impressing yet lacking match fitness and injured most of the time . As if things weren't bad enough, Bilic often times played Hernandez out of position often playing him on the wings with Andy Carroll the main striker. 

Though he is seen as fans favourite and one of the best managers of West Ham, it was not enough reason to keep him on the job considering how woeful the Hammers have been this season rooted in the 18th position five points ahead of bottom placed Crystal Palace as well as having lost six out of their 10 league games so far. 

Whether or not new manager David Moyes will do better is a topic for another as at present what is clear is that Slaven Bilic was on clearly out of his depth before his sacking in East London.