Moyes to West Ham? No Thanks

Well the David Moyes rumour seems to be less likely with every passing minute largely because the fans don’t believe it’s a terribly good idea. If as we are led to believe Slaven Bilic’s time as West ham manager is at an end then surely we have the ideal opportunity to choose the correct appointment to take the club forward.

To place a manager such as Moyes in position for six months would surely create more instability and can anyone seriously expect him to be backed financially in the transfer window? Surely the biggest problem at present with Bilic is that the whole football world knows that he’s a ‘dead man walking’ and as such the players are not playing for him. Do we honestly expect the team to perform any differently for a manager who is on a six month probationary period? Of course not.

This is too good an opportunity to miss, I laugh every time I read that we’ll not approach a manager in a job because compensation will be required. We’re more than happy to pay £24 million on a winger from Stoke or even £5 million on a loan fee for Gokhan Tore but supposedly we’ll not cough up the same amount for Watford’s Silva. The manager who the board seem to truly covet is Rafa Benitez who evidently has a buyout clause for roughly the same amount that we banked for Darren Randolph but yet again we seem in a state of paralysis.

The managerial position is the most important job at any club and we are flirting with relegation so now is not the time to be rummaging through the reduced basket at Aldi. Pay the money, entice the best and arm them with a sufficiently large transfer kitty to make the position alluring.