Said Benrahma shouted “Everytime!” to manager David Moyes angry at being substituted on 73 minutes at the London Stadium this afternoon.
Benrahma’s body language said everything but the manager was annoyed at his player’s slow departure from the field of play as he felt West Ham could still win the game. Moyes said of the row post-match: ‘I said, ‘run off, you are wasting our time”
The winger has been subbed off 17 times for West Ham, his last goal came in December last year in the 4-1 away win against Watford, and his last assist was on New Year’s Day against Crystal Palace.
Moyes said of the Algerian to reporters: I want Said to be a team player, which he is, I want him to make and create goals and score goals and understand when to pass and dribble and keep it. “So they are the key things for Said.”
When asked if he has any issue with the former Brentford man, Moyes added: “No, none at all.”
“I just asked him to run faster and get off the pitch so we could get the sub on fast and use the time at our home stadium to our best advantage.”
Make the sub 1 minute 30 seconds earlier Moyes.
A dressing room that was so warm friendly seem now cold, it took Mark Noble to get the cat issue out and cool down feelings. But to witness a manger and player , arguing is a sure sign of massive issues. A East End saying is never put dirty washing out for all to see. We are doing this big time. Declan seems to gone off the boil, the whole team lack passion, belief and most of all for each other. So a lock the door time to air issues. Face it we are going to finish 7th or 8th
Benrahma walking off slowly and begugingly with sulking attitude does no one any favours. If Benrahma was a team player he would get off the pitch quickly so his mate can get on with his fresh legs and make a difference. That’s the point.
I see your point but it is not correct in this case. Moyes was completely wrong in both taking off Benrahma and the way he spoke to him. He played far better yesterday than either Soucek and Antonio and it seems to me at least other players can play poorly and not be taken off but others are taken off even if they are playing well. Double standards by Moyes is the reason for the incident yesterday and his inept performances and decisions from the line are seriously damaging our European hopes. We needed to score and win the game yesterday against a team without their most dangerous attacker and it was quite obvious to nearly everyone that we had to leave as many attacking players on the pitch except Moyes of course. It is time to trust Benrahma and not treat him like the way Moyes is and drop players liek Soucek as we are playign with 10 men at the moment with him in the team.
I see your point but it’s not correct either. If you want to play for Moyes you have to be a team player. If Moyes doesn’t trust Benrahma it’s because he has been playing recently like an individual, a one man show pony and hasn’t contributed much to the team for some time.