Word from Nottingham Forest after Sean Dyche's first day is a major concern for West Ham

Word coming out of Nottingham Forest after Sean Dyche’s very first training session will be a huge worry for West Ham.

It has been all change again on the managerial merry-go-round and Nottingham Forest have piled the pressure on the Hammers.

When Graham Potter was heading for the sack, West Ham were once again heavily linked with Sean Dyche.

The former Nottingham Forest centre-back has been linked with the Irons on several occasions in the past but has always been overlooked when final decisions are made.

This time around West Ham appointed Nuno Espirito Santo following his sacking by Nottingham Forest.

West Ham and Forest set for Premier League survival scrap

Nuno made an encouraging start in his first two games while his replacement at Nottingham Forest, Ange Postecoglou, became an instant villain.

Poestcoglou was not wanted from the beginning and the writing was on the wall early doors when Forest fans chanted ‘Nuno’ at him as they made their feelings clear about the club’s decision to let the Portuguese go and end up at West Ham.

Nuno had impressed at West Ham ahead of the international break with his interviews, approach, team selection, ruthlessness and passion.

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But things took an ugly and unexpected turn on Monday night.

While Nottingham Forest were putting the finishing touches to appointing Dyche, the Hammers find themselves staring at rock bottom after losing 2-0 to Brentford.

It has been billed the worst performance from any Premier League team this season as West Ham emerged fortunate not to have lost by a cricket score.

Pundits have dubbed the Hammers one of the worst teams in Prem history too.

Nuno has taken a lot of flak after he made five shocking changes to the team which completely backfired.

The ex Nottingham Forest boss left out some of West Ham’s best and most athletic players like Aaron Wan-Bissaka and El Hadji Malick Diouf and played full-backs on the wrong sides.

Word from Forest after Dyche’s first day is a major concern for West Ham

Nuno also played without a striker and did not bring on Callum Wilson at all even though the Hammers were chasing a game they had to win.

The result leaves West Ham in the mud, sat second bottom of the Premier League behind Nottingham Forest and ahead of Wolves.

West Ham also have the worst goal difference in the top flight too.

Many now have the Hammers marked down as relegation certainties.

But with 30 games to go the key will be finishing above three worse teams.

Now word from Nottingham Forest after Dyche’s first day is a major concern for West Ham.

At the moment it is hard to see a worse team than the Hammers in the top flight.

However, after Nuno’s first two games and with Postecoglou in charge at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest were definitely one of them and Wolves another.

That gave West Ham hope they could find one more – perhaps a Burnley or Leeds – to finish ahead of in the battle for survival.

The Hammers were so abject against Brentford that the seriousness of the situation has really started to hit home.

Meanwhile Forest have now piled the pressure even more in east London.

Because Dyche has reportedly hit the ground running, instantly transforming the mood and intensity at Forest — and it’s bad news for Nuno’s struggling Hammers side.

Dyche instantly transforms mood at West Ham’s relegation rivals Forest

ESPN were down at Forest’s Wilford Lane training ground to watch Dyche’s first training session ahead of his media unveiling.

And what they have reported back should be ringing alarm bells in the West Ham boardroom.

Images shared by ESPN show Forest’s players laughing, joking around, smiling and seriously enjoying Dyche’s first session as the new Tricky Trees boss takes centre stage.

ESPN claim the mood around the team has been instantly transformed.

“Just hours after announcing Sean Dyche as their new manager, the mood at the Forest training ground was already something else,” ESPN reports from Forest training.

Meanwhile Nuno must somehow pick his players up off the floor to go again in a quick turnaround game at Leeds on Friday night.

After the initial enthusiasm around Nuno’s appointment, the bizarre changes he made and the team’s woeful performance – which was as bad if not worse than anything under Potter or Julen Lopetegui – has seen doom and gloom descend on the London Stadium once more.

The worry now is that Dyche will completely turn Forest around given the reaction of the players to his appointment.

If that is the case then West Ham may be hard-pressed to find three worse teams than them if they are to avoid demotion to the Championship.

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