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Nuno opens up on West Ham's failed final-day bid for PL survival
West Ham have dropped down to the Championship after a dismal 2025/26 Premier League campaign.
Despite a hard-fought 3-0 win over Daniel Farke's Leeds to close the season, their efforts were not enough, thanks to Tottenham's narrow one-nil win over visiting Everton to keep Spurs in the English top flight next season.
As distraught fans remained in the London Stadium amid the realisation that the Hammers will contest the second tier of English football for the first time since the 2011/12 campaign, boss Nuno Espírito Santo gave his thoughts after the final whistle.
"Yeah, it's tough. It's tough." Nuno said, when coming to grips with a reality he wished the Hammers did not have to face.
"We, all of us, we believed. We dreamed that things could be different. We did our part. We knew that it was going to be tough."
"We finished the season with character, with dignity...we played and won the game, but it was not enough. And like I said, a very, very tough day for us."
West Ham will now face the prospect of losing key pieces in the senior side, with star names the likes of Jarrod Bowen, Mateus Fernandes, Crysencio Summerville, and El Hadji Malick Diouf sure to garner transfer interest over the summer.
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