West Ham legend Harry Redknapp offers to manage club for FREE

West Ham legend Harry Redknapp has offered to manage his relegation-threatened old side for free.

With Nuno Espirito Santo seeing his team fall to a 2-1 home defeat by Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night, the pressure on the manager is higher than ever.

The Hammers are seven points adrift of safety in 18th, with Forest the side above them now enjoying more of a cushion after a huge six-point swing from their win at London Stadium.

Redknapp, who joined the club as a 15-year-old schoolboy in 1962, went on to play for them for more than a decade.

He then took the helm as manager between 1994-2001, leading the club to the UEFA Intertoto Cup and is revered by fans.

On Wednesday, he told TalkSPORT: 'I'd work for nothing. I'd go anywhere if someone rang me up, I'd go and do it for nothing.

'I really would, I'd enjoy it. It's not the money. I'd enjoy going in and being around the players. I love it.'

The 78-year-old added: 'Martin O'Neill has gone in [at Celtic] and he knows what he's doing. He's experienced, he knows the game. It ain't rocket science.

'Get the best out of the players you've got. You've got to get the best out of them.

'In West Ham's situation, whoever goes in has got to get the best out of an average group, to be brutal.

'At the moment they don't look like they're even capable of scrapping hard enough to stay in the league.

'I really needs a miracle. There's only Forest who are within touching distance if they're going to get out of trouble.

'I can't see Leeds, I can't see Brentford, Sunderland have done fantastic. Who else is going to go?'

The Hammers look destined for the drop, with Nuno only managing to win two Premier League games since taking charge just over 100 days ago.

His side have drawn five and lost nine of the 16 total matches under him in the top flight and they have the worst defensive record, conceding 43 times in 20.

They gave bottom club Wolves their first win of the season at the weekend at Molineux before Tuesday night's grim defeat by Forest.

Taty Castellanos signed by for an initial £26million, with another £4.3m in add-ons, while the club were also bolstered by the addition of Pablo Felipe but it remains to be seen whether either will inspire a turnaround.

If Nuno is dismissed, it would be his second sacking of the season having lost his job as Forest boss back in September.