CandH Exclusive by Hugh Southon
David Moyes has risen to the top of the West Ham most ‘wanted list’ over the past 24 hours.
Manuel Pellegrini’s sacking will be a formality if the Hammers can persuade the manager they allowed to leave before appointing the Chilean.
It’s very much forgive and forget time as far as they are concerned and they are hoping the Scottish boss feels the same way
ClaretandHugh has learned that although the 56 year old’s spell at the club finished ‘badly’ the Hammers board are now ready to bring him back to the London Stadium.
The big issue standing in their way is Marco Silva’s position at Everton with the sack appearing to be looming as the Toffees struggle in 15th position – one point more and one place above the Hammers.
Behind the scenes developments are moving fast at the London Stadium with the club set to contact not only Moyes but Chris Hughton whilst looking closely at Sean Dyche’s position.
Rafa Benitez is fourth on the list but it would probably take a sacking or a resignation from Chinese outfit Dalian Yifang for him in China to be a real prospect with a £15 million buy out clause believed to be involved in hi contract.
Insiders at the Hammers have made it clear however that if Moyes can be tempted into returning he would be the board’s choice.
If we take him back I’ll do what I did last time we had him – boycott games until he’s gone!
Please go all out for Dyche if he is really interested, doesn’t get the credit he deserves, with better players I really think he could push on!
What a joke!!!!!! Him and Hughton are no goes!!!!
Totally agree.Keeping Moves last year wouldn’t have been terrible but it wouldn’t work now.
This would be so mindblowingly West Ham as to be unbelievable.
No progression. What is it with the board and their desire to get managers from the relic section who are on a massive downward arc? Totally uninspiring. Frankly I hope this is a C&H clickbait article or that Everton come in.
Dyche is clearly the most suitable candidate given our club. Howe is a nice idea but has everything very cushy at Bournemouth and comes across a little weak. Dyche has a self belief and strength of personality, is on an upward curve, and has shown that even in times of strife at Burnley he can turn it around. Is used to working with the kind of budget our club specialise in and getting the sum of the parts to be greater than the individuals.
If we turn back to Moyes I’ll be done with this club!
Why so you can continue to watch a team that has given up PLAYING?.Moyes should have kept the job and I am certain we would be in a much better place today with him.
Interesting article. I for one, would be happy to have Moyes and his team back. Maybe the negative commentators here have forgotten what Moyes did with a very average team … saved us from relegation and kept us up. What do we need now? Another dose of Moyes for this team of overpaid, lazy un-professionals who have lost their spark, zest and passion. They need a good kick up their backsides. If Moyes can do that … great. If Dyche can do that … great. If Houghton … ? Just get it done asap before turn-around is too late. Coyi. God bless West Ham.
Well said
I would be really happy if Moyes did return as I thought that he did a good job two seasons ago – hopefully he will come to us rather than return to Everton. I think that this time he would want at least a two and a half year contract
Well said.It makes perfect sense.The sooner the better.Pellegrini is finished.
No…..just no….past it like Pellers and Hughton.
Well, well; I’ve always said it was a mistake to get rid of the man, and could never understand some of the negativity on this site towards him??? Do you remember his last three games in charge: a fine win at Leicester (where we never do well), a 0-0 draw at home to the Mancs (I was there, we should have won against a very strong United team), and then beating Everton at home in our final game (again, a feat we mostly never achieve), and still they got rid of him for the old and very poor Chilean. Ok, I’m more inclined to go with the younger manager option, but if that’s not to be, then Moyes is top of my list. And let’s not forget how he tamed the looney Austrian, too
MIstake! There must be a better choice!
Why is Poch not being offer a ransom to come to the club?
Exactly! Poch is what we need.
It’s either us, or Madrid.
Tough choice 😉
Come on really our club is a shambles !
Second time who do u want? Come on and Howe won’t come
Irvine and Pearce as well Hugh?
There’s a big doubt with Everton so volatile but presumably yeah
Already been said Howe would consider coming to West ham by someone that actually gets things right and most fans would want him over any other ones suggested
I would be happy with Moyes, he would get the team motivated and organised.
Someone wasn’t here when he was last in charge then
This is my comment to the previous article but it fits this one just as well.
Haller’s form fix is Antonio!
Antonio can get close to Haller , therefore if the rest of the team punt the ball up to that general area we add a primitive but useful tactic. This started to happen in the last quarter of the Spuds match.
Not big club football but neither is going 3 nil down.
Anderson must start crossing the ball or actually shooting on target.
Burnley cross the ball ASAP and it has got them higher than us in the league.
The manager must adjust his high handed principles or he is toast.
Yes this all seems like David Moyes will be back, but at least he will have some better players to employ these tactics with.
Great news. Never deserved the bullet the first time. Why would he want to come back to us though after the way we treated him? I’ve heard he’s going to Everton anyway.
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OMG no we need someone new, young and ambitious. But above all believes in good attacking football to take us forward, no more dinosaurs, money grabbers and defensive minded managers. We should look at British managers who believe in giving the youth a chance.
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Moyes won’t come to us for another six month contract though, knowing that we will replace him with Benitez in the summer and shaft him a second time.
I would rather Moyes than diyche and certainly more than Houghton who is a terrible choice…poch would be great and Howe…
Hope they ask him and he tells them to stick it, until the board change their outlook towards the club and supporters we will always be in the shadow of an eternal shambles, again its not who the board want its which manager wants our board !!!!!
I really believe that Moyes did enough in his time here to have been given a full-time contract. I can guarantee that if he was in charge now we would not be conceding goals left, right and centre and certainly wouldn’t be bottom of the “distance covered” statistics. He simply would not be pandering to our under-performing primadonnas like MP seems to be. Everton were always hard to beat when he was in charge. I want winning football. Sexy football is a bonus and can be worked on
Nice one Sully, I mean “Tony” 😉
Moyes for me .. should never have been kicked out in the first place . Pretty sure we would be in a better place today if we had kept him on-board .
Why should we go back to a manager who we’ve already sacked. Who we need is Rafa Benitez or Eddie Howe. They would motivate and get the best out of our players. They are just who we need.
We need someone who doesn’t take any prisoners and both moyes and dyche fit the bill for me.
I cannot see moyes coming back though after the way our board treated him last time and if he was offered the everton job he would take it with both hands.
Moyes gets undeserved stick tbh. He did his job kept us up and apart from a few games against then relegation rivals wasn’t too negative, once the pressure was off actually played some good stuff. Not forgetting turning a flop winger into a star striker and a flop left back into a star winger.
My issue with this though.
1. it’s a total step backwards in terms of yet another old freebie manager past his best. In this case one we had before already.
2. We got rid of him only 18 months ago, getting him back it looks like we really have absolutely no idea what the hell we are doing as a club. Other than just trying to stay in the league another season closer to selling.
3. Do these ever work out as well 2nd time round? And you can bet he will not do it on a 6 month contract this time, would want a proper duration.
Better to go for someone new and preferable younger.
Moyes is the cheap option, after paying off MP but he’s a steady option who knows the stadium, some of the players and the youngsters. Needs to be done fast. Depends on how much the Board ****ed him off and if he can stomach having to put up with their BS again.
shoot me now
we can’t have people who won’t come (poch, Howe , Benitez) so from the rest, Moyes or Dyche
If we do go back to Moyes hardly forward thinking. However guess what we will still be
a premier league side next year. and given a fair crack may even progress the club. At the moment the only way is down as the song doesnt say!
Moyes is out of a job for a reason
Like Pullis, Rednapp, Sam, Bruce and McIleish he is one of a band of over rated British managers without a title or European trophy between them and with no invention or style,
Can anyone tell me what poch has actually ever won he did ok at spurs but not great considering the squad he had. Dyche has done a great job at Burnley with far lesser players. Moyes done well considering the circumstances. I think it will be hard to get any decent manager the mess we are in .
Poch should be first choice.Levy didn’t bring in a new player for 2 seasons.Pich would do really well with us and even though Pelle was a waste of time and money,we need to cut our losses and fix things before we get relegated and things really get ******.
By most measurements, West Ham is an above average club, but not a big club.
It is only the size of support which makes us above-average.
As such, our priority should always be stability; stability means staying in the division.
Once stability has been achieved, then we can consider moving on.
There are 4 segments of the premier league:
1. Top 3
2. Next 4
3. Next 9
4. Bottom 4
We should aspire to stabilise towards the top of 3. and then consider a push to 2.
Our current trajectory is lower 3 and heading fast to 4.
That is what the illusion of fast flowing forward play has brought us.
It is true that Fabianski’s injury has not helped but all that has done is highlight what a bunch of numpties we have playing for us and, worse still, coaching them. Those who had demonstrated potential e.g. Diop, Haller, Rice are now victims of the general malaise initiated by the coach and compounded by lazy good for nothings like Anderson (which was well known long before he joined us).
Our owners’ problem is that they have hired some sound ‘local’ coaches who have brought the stability, but they then are too impatient to replace them with someone they think can move the club on and, as with the current incumbent, could not care less about the future of the club.
The thing with Poch is he trusts younger players. Don’t want Houghton anywhere near the club. If he was that good he would have got loads of offers from other clubs already. Moyes .. I’m not convinced he would come back after what the Dave’s did to him. But Pelle has to go. Players have given up with him. I keep saying the same thing. We looking at a dog fight already. So give the job to the U23 Management team. Until the summer. If we go down then we got the summer to sort it out.
Cant believe some of the comments. Moyes was dumped in when we were 18th and pulled us out to 13th. He did more than enough to get the job. We went from 20th in the league for km ran up to 8th or 9th in just 6 months. The football wasnt great but there were some really good games as well. Much better with Joao Mario (why didnt we sign him?) Lanzini and Arnautovic, then this Pellegrini walking style football. I would want Moyes and Irvine, Mckinley and Pearce back in. The players know they have to run for them or they get a right rollocking in the dressing room.
Poch would never come because we would be career suicide for him. His stock is as high as it ever will be currently so he’ll capitalise on that.
In football circles it’s pretty clear Sullivan is not a well thought of Chairman. If you read between the lines after managers leave, the comments of Zola, Allardyce, Bilic and Moyes all point to him being a nightmare.
That means we will only get someone inspite of that, which means someone borderline desperate or in it purely for the cash. We’re not a good stepping stone club.
Moyes and Hughton fit the billing in that respect. If Moyes was to come back after last time it tells you everything about where his career is at (and have people forgotten the drubbings we took under his “more organised” stewardship? Pretty sure we conceded as many per game as under Bilic. His team were pure football dinosaurs too).
We are classless from the top and that translates all the way down. Doesnt matter who you stick in charge frankly. We’re run like a hobby…the best change Sullivan could make is to get a proper CEO in like Levy and back away. He’s shown he doesn’t have what it takes to drive the club forward. His taste is “ostentatious baubles”. Even the signing of Pellegrini fits that mould. For the money he was paying and offering to spend in season 1 he could have got someone on an upward trajectory. Instead he got the expensive big name on the downward curve in. Now we’re back in panic stations. The man doesnt have a strategic or visionary bone in his body at the football level. He even screwed up the DoF setup…rule 101 is the manager doesn’t choose the DoF…appoint the DoF to have the strategic vision, and let them choose the manager to fit the vision. That approach is about strategic continuity from manager to manager. Not with Sullivan and West Ham though!
I desperately hope Pellegrini turns it around, as the alternative is more doldrums and the unthinkable.
Frankly the club is doomed until we get a professional in charge of the setup at the top, and then allow that to filter down.
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Hugill
Nasri
Evra
Moyes a good idea?
Nasri, Hugill, Evra – Moyes such a good idea?
I’m anti-Moyes 100%, but Nasri was Pellegrini
Moyes for me, should have been given more time in the first place. He worked hard and was always out and about doing his homework on the opposition. You never see the current manager anywhere other than the dugout on match days or at press conferences. Apart from picking strange combinations of players and getting them to walk around and pass it sideways, he doesn’t bother with things like tactics!
I wonder what Moyes would have if had remained and had the financial backing Pelle received. I bet we would be in a better position now. Anyway, for me, I would like to see us go for Poch.
Moyes is no,no.
How’s he going to inspire this squad.
A younger manager please and not someone who has been stuck in China for a couple of years.
Benitez,maybe before he realises the error of his ways.
Someone like Chris Wilder but with WH connections.
Who?
Moyes did well at Everton for a long time with a limited budget & was well liked by the club supporters. They expressed regret when he went. Given time Moyes would have had us knocking on Europes door as he did year after year at Everton. If he came back we may not win the championship but he would have us performing far better than we have for many a year. Reappointing him would not be a bad decision.