West Ham United refused to enter into public statements about David Moyes explaining he had been offered a new contract because they wanted to avoid all public arguments.
Ex confirms Moyes contract situation
That would have been seriously bad news for the club at a time when all sorts of rumours and tensions have been flying around about his future.
Ex confirms Moyes contract situation
However, ExWHUemployee has now confirmed what Claret and Hugh revealed a couple of night ago, that there was never a contract on the table in front of the manager.
Instead, there had been agreement – prior to the run of poor results – that things were looking ok and that was the optimistic hope.
Now,. however, the manager will need to wait until the end of the season for an answer to the question everybody is asking.
One source said however prior to the Brentford victory: “Things need to pick up quickly and we have to start winning otherwise anything could happen.”
Meanwhile Ex said: “There have been provisional talks over a new deal for David Moyes. However, I’ve been advised that at no point it’s been put forward for signing.
“The manager possibly was referring to an agreement but that’s provisional, but not in front of him to sign.
“It’s understood that any decision by the board as to whether to offer him an extension will be made at the end of the season, following a review on how the season pans out.”
If DM stayed that would be ok, but he would need to get rid of perennial hang-ups that accompany him over the years: good players frozen out, CFs too often feeding off scraps (Antonio), good players ran into the ground, frosty/poor relationships with skillful players who then leave, one style of play, etc.
On the plus side he brings in players like Dawson, we beat good teams with brilliant counter-attacking football., but only sometimes. We just need more variation of style of play and we have international players more than capable of doing this, plus training & analysis is so advanced nowadays. Where’s the difficulty?
If he had trusted lieutenants and ditched all the flaws we’d have a complete setup even a very good manager. It is as if he shoots himself in the foot. Maybe this is why everyone is so split. All that is wrong contrasted to all that is great and makes him is a good manager.
Where he has failed though is in integrating academy players. Clubs such as RB Leipzig, Liverpool show the way. Saying it is harder is not true, the game is less physical and kids receive intelligent training from the age of 8 or so.