Moyes claims “we were really ambitious” in window
Having missed out on bids for strikers he added that in his view it would be difficult to find a better back-up to Mikey Antonio than Jarrod Bowen.
He was also keen to pile praise onto the board whom he described as “fantastic ” adding that they had been really ambitious and probably made three record bids towards the end of the window.
The manager continued to insist that he had to buy top players and wanted the fans to know that he wasn’t ready if you like to settle for second best.
In a lengthy interview at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2022/february/02-february/manager-david-moyes-speaks-west-ham-tv he covers a lot of ground on the wheeling and dealing that apparently went on as the window progressed towards its close.
Describing the end of deadline day as a “long long night” he said: “ I would have loved to have said we’d got everything done and dusted early doors but, look, it wasn’t for the want of trying, that’s for sure.
West Ham supporters can be reassured that we were really ambitious in what we were trying to do. We were really ambitious in trying to get good players and players who could help us and make a difference.
We’ve also got Jarrod Bowen and it would be very difficult to get a better back-up to Micky Antonio than Jarrod. We were always looking to try and find replacements in several areas, but it just became pretty difficult in the end and we missed out on one or two late on.
Overall, all I can say is that the Board have been fantastic. We probably made three record transfer bids from the Club in this January window and let’s be fair, January is never really a great time.
We’ve been quite good in January in the main and in the last few Januaries we’ve been here we’ve signed players and sort of done quite well, but this one for some reason became tougher.
I also believe it’s probably been tougher because we’re looking at a much different level of player now and trying to attract some of the top players throughout Europe.”
He added: “I think that’s one thing I want to do is I want to make sure that the supporters at West Ham can trust that I’m trying to spend the money wisely.
And we’re trying to bring in good players but also, we don’t want to bring people in who I think are only here just to pad it up and maybe makes everybody in the media think that we’ve done a bit of good business. The idea in this job is to try and sign good players.”