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Moyes insists West Ham culture must change

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David Moyes is determined to build West ham into a club with a winning culture.

We have all had enough of seeing the fits and starts of form that has bedevilled the Irons for too many years and the manager is making sure that all his energies are directed at a win. win. win objective

Given he only arrived in late December with the club in the sort of mess the fans had rarely witnessed, Moyes deserves great praise given all the uncertainty so many expressed as he arrived for the second time.

And the criticisms of his so called defensive approach has been blown to pieces over the last five games which have seen us win three vital games, lose just one and draw one – scoring a dozen goals along the way.

He’s now talking like a man in total charge of things and has had enough of the West Ham which only wins when it has to,

Speaking at his presser ahead of the Man united game he said: “That word ‘integrity’ has been used a lot, but you couldn’t question us. We’ve been on the ball from game one and we will be until the end and I expect us to win every game.

We want to get away from being a club who just win when we need to, to a club who wins all the time and get more regular wins under our belt

That culture needs to change at this club and we have to show what we can do. We need to go out and play well.

I’m excited by the future. I’m hoping we can try and make a difference, but sometimes small steps are all you can take at different times, when sometimes people want to see a massive difference.

We need to make some changes here and some of those changes take time to be implemented and operate and I hope we get the opportunity to do that, but time is very hard to ask for and to get in management these days.

I’m really pleased I’m at a great club with a great history and an incredible fan base which is starved of the real level they want to be at, but I want to give them a bit  of realism as well, which is we have to build this and we have to get better.

I want to do this in a way I see as the correct way, building from the bottom, putting the foundations in and build in the right direction.

If we do that, I think we can start to build a really good West Ham.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • Paul H says:

    His words are exactly why I’m really looking forward to having him here for a good few years. It’s exactly what this club needs. None of this DOF crap. A manager with a vision and wanting to put the things in place to Build the club from the ground up. With the youth prospects coming through the work effort he instills and a couple of smart transfer windows there could be light at the end of a dark tunnel.

  • Che says:

    I’m not going to get carried away just because we managed to beat 2 of the worst sides in the league on the spin.

    Moyes record has been poor, again. He’s going to have to do a lot better, or expect us to be in the same position next season.

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