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Pressure... West Ham boss Graham Potter

Graham Potter admits West Ham are "hurting" but he heads to Nottingham Forest for Sunday's 2pm kick-off insisting they are not far from getting back "on a good path".

Potter is under increasing pressure after the Hammers started the season with back-to-back Premier League defeats and an early Carabao Cup exit after losing at Wolves in midweek.

But the former Brighton and Chelsea head coach, whose squad was boosted by the £40m signing of Mateus Fernandes from Southampton on Friday, said it was not time to look for reassurances over his job.

He said: "I don't think it's about reassurances. I'm an experienced manager, I try my best and it's my job to help the players.

"We're all hurting, because the pre-season was encouraging. We lost at

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