Bilic doesn't fear the sack

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic says he has no fears about getting sacked despite the club’s indifferent start to the season.

The east London club are currently just a point above the drop zone following last Saturday's stoppage-time defeat at Tottenham and face some difficult fixtures over the next few weeks.

They travel to Old Trafford twice in the next five days, once in the league and once in the EFL Cup, before entertaining local rivals Arsenal and then heading for Anfield to play Liverpool.

Despite the predicament, however, Bilic says he has no fears for his job and has the full support of joint-chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold.

"There is not much to say, I am doing my job," he said. "I speak to the owners, mostly Mr Sullivan, regularly after every game and in between if something needs talking about.

"I feel supported and as I have said so many times I concentrate on my job and our next game, and that's basically it.

"I'm not fearful. I feel pressure, of course, because we are not producing, we're not delivering and we don't have enough points to feel happy and to feel safe.

"But I see the improvement. Against Spurs I saw a team hungry and alive, the points were there for us in a difficult away game, so that's what I'm confident about.

"I take my job in good times and bad times. How I look at my job, or any manager's job, is that the next few games can change everything from good times to bad times, and bad times to good.

"When we were doing well I wasn't thinking about getting a new contract. All I concentrate on is how to improve the team, to lift them after a defeat or improve after a good run. That's how I look at my job.

"The table is still very tight. If we had won at Spurs we'd have been about 12th.

"We can say it's still early days but we have to start picking up the points. We can say we deserved more or were unlucky, but the table doesn't lie.”

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