‘We have a small recruitment department and that has to be addressed because that is not the situation at any other club. We have to put that in place. We have to have a professional ethic about how we go about our business.
David Moyes May 30, 2021
West Ham’s manager has made the most significant statement since he came back to the club in today’s interview published by the Daily Mail.
More important even than his declaration that Declan Rice was happy at the club and that so long as that continued he wanted to keep him.
Moyes has one huge advantage in that area when holding onto the younger Wayne Rooney when he too was heralded as a sensation – at least for a couple of years before Manchester United forked out £25.5 million.
But it’s the statement above which has you realising just how much he has become the central figure at this club and the influence he is wielding with a few months.
The recruitment situation has always been held up as something of a joke by fans of this club and since Moyes chooses to address the issue publicly we can see the amount of control he is starting to exert.
To say straight out: “We have to have a professional ethic about how we go about our business.”
That’s some sort of statement to put into the public domain and as a result it demonstrates his fingerprints are all over this club.
David Moyes has always been very much his own man and this is what we have been waiting for – the earliest result – European football!
Come on you Moysie
Thanks for sharing the link, High. Not being a Daily Mail reader, I would’ve missed this one, if you hadn’t shared 🙂
It’s another ‘class apart’ interview from David Moyes, for me. He gave a similar one at the end of last season, when he, quite rightly, said that the time for over-promising and under-delivering was over. Can you imagine the clowns that we’ve had to put up with over the last few years saying the same things: Pellegrini, Allardyce? I can’t.
The key quote for me was: “We need the supporters behind us and I want to try to help build a bridge so we become a more all-in-one football club.” It’s so true. We really need to get behind this guy, particularly those of us who (Covid permitting) will be going to Thursday night games next season. We need to remember to give him and the players some breathing space, if progress over the next two or three seasons isn’t as linear as we want it to to be. We need also to remember that recruitment isn’t about signing big-name players, if we don’t attract the players that the media tell us are the brightest and the best, should Moyes plump for less-gifted, but harder-working players.
Also, the quote’s reminded me that it’s been a long time since the supporters in the ground have really got behind a manager, and sung his name. Redknapp was the last one, as far as I can remember.
I’m also left wondering whether there are any supporters left still unconvinced by David Moyes. How about a carefully-worded C&H poll?!
I am on the left mate but I find more Hammers exclusives and news generALLY innthe Mail than any other. I can’t be bothered with their politics but they do get decent stories on Hammers etc. And yeah we’ll do a poll