Moyes: Overpaid and over-priced players not the way to go

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David Moyes has spelt it out – he flatly refuses to bring in a striker as cover for just three months!

And the reality is it’s easy to understand why given the dreadful shortage of money in the game.

Ok there are those who will disagree violently but, as now repeated many times, with clubs overall spending just over £3 million each on players in January the situation speaks for itself.

He won’t be moved and speaking to reporters finally made his point in no uncertain terms declaring: “We can’t just bring somebody in because we have a  centre forward out and they’ll help cover us for three months until the end of the season!

The recruitment is changing. I want to breed a new West Ham. That has to be, that we do things correctly.

“We are trying not to spend excessive money like we have in the past. What’s going to happen is that a lot of people don’t like change, whatever  walk of life it is in.

The small time that we’ve had and the small changes we have made have already made a difference.

“I would hope that most people would look at it and say it is the right way to go. Maybe in a few years people will look at it and say that hasn’t worked so let’s get back to signing players for any amount of money.

“Overpaid, overpriced I don’t think it’s the right way and if you’re a West Ham supporter you’d like to think your club is doing things in a way that will give you a chance to succeed.

The players I want are the ones who want to be here for the long term and are hungry to play for the club. If anything their value will go up rather than down and we end up losing money whenever we bring somebody in.”

ClaretandHugh says: It’s good to hear Moyesie talking in such terms because if anyone believes cash is still as readily available from clubs as it has been in the past they are living in a false reality. The argument about a back up striker will no doubt carry on but let’s be harsh and truthful about this. We didn’t really have one to Mikey Antonio in Seb Haller but it didn’t stop us enjoying a brilliant season. Like most I’ve had enough of seeing so called marquee signing appear at the club and fail big time. Let’s give the Moysie way a chance. Based on what we have seen so far all is well and set to get better.