Outspoken pundit Simon Jordan has been adamant all season that West Ham will be relegated – but now he has changed his mind after watching Tottenham’s first game under Roberto De Zerbi.
West Ham have Premier League survival in their own hands after dumping bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur into the relegation zone at the weekend.
The Hammers have climbed out of the bottom three for only the third time all season at the expense of Spurs, who have not won a league game in 2026.
Up until quite recently, most journalists, pundits and fans have felt Tottenham would “wake up” and pull out of trouble sooner or later with West Ham the favourites to join Wolves and Burnley in the Championship.
Jordan now believes Spurs will drop instead of West Ham
Simon Jordan has never hidden his disdain for West Ham’s majority owner David Sullivan and so it should be no surprise he rarely has much positive to say about the east Londoners.
Not that there have been many positives for Jordan to run his silver tongue about in the last couple of years.
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Jordan has insisted all season that West Ham will be relegated and has been one of the many dismissing the possibility of Tottenham going down.
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That has all changed now, though.
Jordan has made a seismic West Ham U-turn after watching Spurs’ first game under new boss Roberto De Zerbi.
Tottenham hoped the Italian’s arrival would spark an instant revival in north London, but while West Ham beat Wolves 4-0, De Zerbi lost his first match 1-0 at Sunderland.
With Mohammed Kudus and now captain Cristian Romero ruled out for the season, Tottenham’s issues are piling up.
De Zerbi has made an honest West Ham admission after one game as Spurs boss.
Now Jordan has admitted he is reconsidering his prediction the Hammers will drop, with Spurs ‘the only side not showing anything’.
Jordan: West Ham momentum puts Spurs in ‘mortal danger’ of relegation
Jordan says West Ham continuing their momentum leaves Tottenham in ‘mortal danger’ of relegation.
And while he rates De Zerbi and expects him to get a tune out of his players, Jordan pointed out he’s no wizard.
“De Zerbi isn’t Harry Potter. He isn’t going to be able to just turn it around instantaneously, there’s no magic wand,” Jordan said on talkSPORT, which you can watch in the video below.
“They are in mortal jeopardy now, Spurs. Clearly, obviously, there’s no doubt about it. They’re in the bottom three. You can’t hide from it.
“Look, I can’t forecast Spurs are going to stay in this division now, because my belief was that somehow or another West Ham would run out of momentum. But when you go and beat Wolves 4-0, and you keep the momentum going, the belief will be in West Ham now. They’re out of the bottom three. The psychological battle will have been laid down for them.
“You know, Forest got back in and got a point against Aston Villa. The only team that’s not showing anything at this moment in time is Spurs. And so it becomes a very challenging perspective. And of course the story, if you talk about media-wise, the story is obviously, if you want a media story, Spurs getting relegated, isn’t it?”
Jordan is right about the Hammers having all the momentum after Nuno Espirito Santo’s side made it 18 points from 12 games while Tottenham have one point from 24.
What will be interesting now is how the Hammers respond to the pressure of being the hunted rather than the hunter.
Tottenham face another tough test when they welcome De Zerbi’s old club Brighton to north London next while West Ham go to Crystal Palace on Monday night.
If Tottenham don’t win and West Ham pick up another three points, the Hammers will be four or five points clear of their rivals with five games to go.
Relegation run-in remaining fixtures: