Moyes reveals how long he wants to be an Iron!

Just as was the case at Everton he hopes he gets the chance saying: “I think West Ham has got unbelievable potential, unbelievable potential to be up there. They have got the infrastructure now to grow.”

However, although his fingers are crossed that h can be the man to finally take the club to the next level he knows things have changed dramatically in the game since his time at Goodison.

He said: “I hope that is the case [stay long-term] and I’d love to say that is what it is. But, when I came in I spoke about it, I don’t think managers now tend to get the time or that period.

“It’s a case of the job moves on managers much quicker now than it did. I remember at Everton, the first year went well, second was a dip and it’s at those times where we had been safe from April time and hardly won any games and that was the only time I thought it was going wrong.

“But we got rid of that feeling that being safe was good enough.

“If I can get good stability, strengths then I hope, it could easily be eleven years. I think West Ham has got unbelievable potential, unbelievable potential to be up there. They have got the infrastructure now to grow.

“When I took over at Everton, just as an example, we trained at Bellfield, it reminds me of here but here is slightly bigger.

” Within a couple of weeks we had brought the academy in to train and one of the biggest strengths was them bringing young boys through, I always thought it was better to have them all in one building.

“Overall, I got the time to do that and make changes and do things. Sometimes, you need directors to put things in place for the long-term. You want an academy to develop, your infrastructure to be good.

“Bill [Kenwright, Everton chairman] would say I had £5m a year to spend, I shook his hand and I asked him for a couple of things in exchange to prepare the players any way I like, he wouldn’t sell any of my players and he agreed with it. I knew I had £5m a season to spend and that’s how we started.”