Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola feels Sam Allardyce will be axed by West Ham United this summer.

Allardyce will come off contract next month.

"Normally people don't look at the first half of the season, they only look at the end of it," Zola told talkSPORT.

"Over the last fourteen games, West Ham have not done very well. That's the problem with Sam.

"He did fantastically well at the beginning of the season though. Sometimes there was a difficult relationship between the way Sam played and the sort of football West Ham supporters wanted to see.

"I know how important the style of football is for West Ham fans. That might be the biggest problem to overcome. I don't know what's going to happen.

"Nobody can question whether Sam Allardyce has done a good job for the club though."