David Moyes says West Ham’s target must be to find a greater level of consistency in their play next season. After guiding the Hammers to Premier League safety with a 2-0 win at Leicester City on Saturday, the manager spoke to the media about how to ensure the Club is not dragged into another relegation battle in 2018/19.
“I think it’s hard to judge how I’ve done this season. I actually would like to be a manager who wins games regularly. I don’t want to be a manager who is battling around relegation. I want to have winning teams. I had eleven years of, in the main, winning teams, and that’s what I want to do. I want to be challenging the top teams and have a team that, most weeks, I have an idea of what their level of performance will likely be, because that means I’m feeling a lot better every week, rather than wondering if we are up or down.
“Some of our performances here have been excellent and some I’ve wondered ‘Where did that come from?’.
“Consistency is getting yourself at a level of play and building it, and everybody would like consistency.”
Unfortunately, in this day and age, consistency partly involves having a top quality squad. All things considered, we have done OK, bearing in mind our terrible start, but unless we can get in 4-6 top quality players, we could well struggle again next season.
We need something around 250-300 million pounds (for new signings) if we are serious about any positive changes in the next season or two. How can we expect 60 million quid to be sufficient to even dream about a top 10 finish. Of course we have some terrific U-23 players on the verge of breaking into the first team, but we can’t expect too much in such a short space of time.