Fans recently claimed West Ham star Mohammed Kudus is cursed and they may be onto something after a new disaster.
For West Ham to have a successful season they need Mohammed Kudus at his brilliant best.
The club sit 14 in the Premier League under new boss Lopetegui and are out of the League Cup.
There have been heavy defeats, fans have been leaving games early and the manager is under pressure to keep his job.
Very few Hammers players have covered themselves in glory.
Indeed for Julen Lopetegui to survive as Hammers boss that is key.
It feels like things are unravelling at West Ham, though, with bad news following the club around like a bad smell this year.
West Ham have won just nine games in 2024 from 39 attempts.
There has also been indiscipline and dissent in the ranks, some of it very public indeed.
Kudus and Lopetegui had a bust-up at Brentford which saw the Ghana star hauled off at half-time.
The former Ajax man then had complete head loss at Spurs, getting a three-game ban which has since been extended to five matches.
That means Kudus will not be available again until the game against Leicester on December 3rd.
Kudus started this season looking unplayable on the ball. He was doing everything but score for West Ham.
But he started to cut a frustrated figure at being played out of position on the left.
Many believe that was a contributing factor to the red mist descending in West Ham’s embarrassing 4-1 defeat at Spurs.
It emerged at his FA appeal hearing – where one panel member wanted to hand him a mammoth ban to send a deterrent to others – that Kudus was ‘stressed’ as a result of criticism in Ghana.
Cursed West Ham star Kudus at lowest ebb after new disaster
West Ham’s most talented player enjoyed a brilliant debut season with the Hammers, scoring 14 goals and laying on six assists.
It was punctuated by a dismal African Nations with his country at the start of 2024, though.
Despite climbing off the treatment table to single-handedly put Ghana on course to make it out of the group stages, Kudus saw his team throw it all away as they crashed out.
That cost ex Hammer Chris Hughton his job and resulted in a backlash against the team in Ghana.
After bowing out of the group stage of the last AFCON, Ghana also dismally failed to even qualify for the next one.
The Hammers ace issues a grovelling apology for the form of the national team after angry backlashes.
Ghana fans even suggested Kudus is cursed since being handed the number 10 shirt and captaining the team.
Well maybe they were onto something.
Ghana have won just once in a year after a 1-1 draw with Angola on Friday was followed by a late 2-1 defeat at home to Niger this evening.
Kudus’ misery continued and then some.
West Ham’s attacking star, who has been linked with a summer move to Arsenal, captained Ghana again.
He then stepped up to take a last minute penalty for the Black Stars to salvage a draw.
But he saw his effort saved as the Hammer hit rock bottom.
Things go from bad to worse for star boy after late penalty miss
Because Cursed West Ham star Kudus is at lowest ebb after a new disaster and you couldn’t make it up.
