David Moyes has played down new contract talks at his virtual press conference this morning saying he would sign a new contract ‘When the time is right. Lets wait and see’
His comment confirms a ClaretandHugh article two weeks ago when we said West Ham are not planning to discuss a new contract with manager David Moyes until the end of this year at the earliest.
Although he has made a great start to his second spell at the club, both the board and the manager himself will wait until the club is safe from from relegation before talks take place.
Moyes is keen to re-establish his reputation which suffered after spells at Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland.
So his sole focus at this moment will be to keep the squad performing to a high level as he bids to put the club on a healthy number of points by December/January.
It will be at that point – should he have achieved that – the two sides would seem likely to formalise a new deal which could see the Scot tied down for another three years.