Moyes plan was to build squad around Declan…that looks a bad joke after a window which could lead to disaster

 

By ClaretandHugh editor Hughie Southon

As I write there has been not a single new arrival at the club!

That could of course change before 11pm although I’m tempted not to stay up 🙂

We are now reading that Jesse Lingard is still an option and that the Hammers are making a late move to bring him in.

Our northern man Terry Robbins has written that Manchester United won’t allow him to join us as they continue to see us as top four rivals.

We at CandH are not naive enough to believe that couldn’t change in the last few hours but at the moment it’s a big no no

Many would welcome him but more would have hoped for an out and out striker and/or central defender.

Disappointing doesn’t start to cover our window situation and there will be many looking for and naming scapegoats from the board, Moyes and his recruitment geezer Rob Newman.

As written here the other day Moysie’s job is still only half done this season and it really isn’t about how you start but how you finish.

If it’s lower in the PL than last season this term will have been a failure after all the high hopes.

Given that he and Newman have had four months to sort things since September to bring in urgently needed replacements or cover players it really won’t be good enough if it doesn’t happen.

What’s Newman been doing – listening to what Moyes wants and finding the job is impossible as a result?

Here we are with a new investor and not a penny looks likely to have been spent, a new recruitment man who was Moysie’s chosen employee (perhaps because he would do what he was told) and no new players!

There will be those that will or will want to blame GSB but they can no longer do anything without Kretinsky’s approval and the manager actually giving them time to sort deals out so it’s all nonsense to be blaming them in the current situation.

Moyes failure to bring anyone in and living up to the not inappropriate “Dithering Dave” title could have other major effects and one is particularly frightening.

Moyes made it clear weeks ago he wanted to build a team around Declan in order to help ensure he stayed at the club. So what happened and how is Declan likely to respond to a missed opportunity of the manager  beefing up a paper thin squad. I can’t blame him if he decides to move on as a result.

And should he decide to quit where will that leave Tomas Soucek whose representatives are currently discussing a new deal.

Then there’s the Jarrod Bowen Liverpool talk – where is he gonna be in 18 months time should the  ghastly winter window business be followed by another in the summer where to honest, apart from Zouma, the rest of the dealings were pretty average.

I can’t see how we can hope to finish in the top six never mind top four – nor can I see us winning the Europa League and qualifying for the CL so why should top players stay?

Moyes has let it be known that none of the players he was offered were better than what he had but he got that all wrong too. He only need two or three who were better than Yarmolenko, Masuaku, and Fredericks.

It now looks more than likely David Moyes has let us down in this window. I hope come May I’ll be profusely apologising but I really don’t think that will be the case.

The repercussions of what’s happened here could be disastrous and I hope that once the window is closed everything I have written here can be discounted!