Kurt Zouma and Konstantinos Mavropanos should be fired by the team, according to a former West Ham United striker, who called the defenders’ performances this season “pathetic.”
On their day, West Ham can be a deadly offensive force thanks to David Moyes’ ability to employ stars like Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus, and Jarrod Bowen in forward positions. Although West Ham is the highest team with a negative goal differential, they are currently ranked sixth in the Premier League.
Indeed, with 45 goals and 49 goals allowed, Moyes’ team has a minus four goal differential.
February was an especially bad month for the West Ham defense, conceding 14 goals in only five games.
Regarding center backs, Mavropanos had a rough afternoon in Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Burnley, as he let Burnley’s second goal go in by turning a Josh Cullen cross into his own goal.
Club captain Zouma, on the other hand, has not been able to reclaim the strong form he had when wearing a West Ham shirt.
Frank McAvennie, who played two spells with West Ham and amassed 119 games, has now criticized Mavropanos and Zouma harshly.
He has recommended that West Ham sell the underperforming pair, whose transfer fees were close to £50 million.
Players for West Ham “give gifts away”
“That defense—my goodness. Every week, Mavropanos and Zouma give away gifts, he stated in an interview with Football Insider.
“When those two are playing, they can be improper players, and West Ham will give up goals.”I’m not sure I’ll get a clean sheet because sometimes they act so sad. If you have these attacking players, you must have a strong back four.
“I have always liked [Vladimir] Coufal.” But [Angelo] Ogbonna is undoubtedly superior to the two youngsters in the middle, right? What has become of him?Mavropanos and Zouma appear incapable of running.
West Ham will be looking to snap their awful streak of not keeping a clean sheet since January 2 in their upcoming match. The East London team’s next league game comes on March 17 against Aston Villa; on Thursday, they play Freiburg in the second leg of their Europa League last-16 match.