A penny for David Moyesâ thoughts on whatâs currently happening at West Ham.
Thereâs a strange sense of ironyâthough Moyes might call it justiceâthat Everton could not only put the final nail in Graham Potterâs coffin, but also make life deeply uncomfortable for chairman David Sullivan.
Moyes will no doubt feel he was unfairly released twice by the Hammers, Sullivan in particular. The official line is that he chose not to renew his contract at the London Stadium, but letâs be honestâhe jumped before he was pushed.
David Moyes will be relishing the chance to give West Ham a bloody nose
Now, the former Irons boss must be licking his lips at the thought of pushing Everton closer to Champions League qualification while simultaneously leaving West Ham mired in the relegation zone.
Potterâs promised attractive football has failed to materialise, and the club now look closer to appointing Nuno Espirito Santoârenowned for his pragmatic, defensive approach. Sound familiar?
The Toffees boss must be laughing at the irony: he lost his job in pursuit of so-called âsexy football,â yet his former employers are preparing to dive straight back into another version of Moyesball.
Honestly, you couldnât make it up.
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Moyes had a team that was built on a certain Declan Rice !
Once he left it was all downhill !
Moyes transfers in with the Rice money were awful .
Alvarez , Ward Prowse , Cornet âŚ.. there!s 75 million !
Moyes had his time and we were all thankful for the trophy he bought to the club âŚ. End of !
Moyes had his faults as a manager – but he has always struck me as a decent human being – so the idea that he would relish pushing us further into the relegation zone is rather mean spirited
Letâs get it right Moyes was forced out of our club by Sullivan putting the squeeze on him, not offering him the contract he deserved, undermining him by bringing in the disaster that was Tim Steidten etc but ultimately it has to be said Sullivan only ever reacts to fan pressure. If the fans want a manager out Sullivan will oblige. Sullivan will take any scapegoat he can get to deflect any of the flak from himself. Moyes was a perfectly good manager , 6th, 7th, 9th place finishes, on top of 3 years playing in Europe. When you think many teams league form suffered when they play mid week in Europe on top of premier league thatâs no mean feat. The West Ham collective turned against him though despite this. The counter attacking football wasnât sexy enough for them, they wanted the passing game. Well now weâve got that under Potter but unless youâre Manchester City itâs not too easy to play is it. So Potter will be gone soon as fan pressure once again leads Sullivan to bring in the next manager to be in the firing line.
A case in point as to why our club needs renaming to West Ham Divided.
Because that is a total nonsense, and you have rose tinted glasses on J… Unless you didn’t actually watch any of the last 18 months of Moyes…
Some of what you say holds true, but your “be careful what you wish for” claptrap shows you have a short memory.
Nonsense. Moyes got the best out of the players at his disposal in my opinion.
Ha ha ha! So you obviously didn’t sit there and watch any of the games then, J? Because if you had, you wouldn’t be writing this.
Players deteriorate after they arrive and improve when they leave. I wonder what that tells the board. Pay the money and get a manager. Get a stadium that loyal supporters can be proud of and enjoy. Sit back and watch West Ham grow. Well I can dream.
Do you remember when everybody thought we were mad to pay out so much for a goalkeeper in Phil Parkes and the difference he made? You get what you pay for.
Moyes is most of the reason we are where we are now. He created a defensive team that couldnât defend, an aged squad with no pathway for young players. Also he wasnât released, he had a contract in front of him that he refused to sign in December which was subsequently withdrawn. We just need to have a little more patience with new managers these days. Youâre not going to repair what Moyes has done to us in a short space of time.
Amazing he was so successful if he was as bad as you think!
Well if we really are getting closer to appointing Nuno as our next manager we might want to hurry up a bit. Because “Four Key Aston Villa Players Lose Faith in Unai Emery as Sack Update Emerges” is now on givemesport.com website. It doesn’t go as far as mentioning any possible replacements at this stage but maybe we should be worried. Aston Villa would certainy attract interest.
Letâs wait then because Iâd prefer Emery
Most enjoyable football I’ve seen us play in the last 10 years was when there were no fans during Covid and we were comfortably sitting back and soaking pressure before rocketing out on the counter with Antonio. Why care about possesion when you get exciting breaks and score actual goals and wins?! But it got way less comfortable and more frustrating at the end though, after Dawson left maybe, then he also lost some good assistants and the whole drama with Steintden meddling with the players didnt help anyone.
Can’t blame Moyes for not wanting to accept having no say in transfers in his last contract offer with us, and now Everton are benefiting and playing some pretty decent football, so fair play to him and yeah it was frustrating to watch toward the end but there’s no denying he was the most successful at winning we had for a good amount of time.
I donât think Silva would want to work for Sullivan and Brady Gonzo!
The thing is those two deserve relegation and we could get rid of them both if the worst happensâŚ
yeah, I wouldn’t argue with any of that Ed
Remember he was offered a new contract at Christmas that year with West Ham 6th in the league, in the last 16 of the Europa League and having just beaten Arsenal and Spurs away. He didnât sign the contract because he would have lost final say on transfers. What happened after Christmas was irrelevant as he had mentally already left, look at his inactivity in his final transfer window. He must have felt so insulted after the success he brought to the club
Moyesball mk4 you mean.
Floppy was mk2 and Potter was mk3. All horrible crimes against entertaining football
Ha ha. . .yes indeed
All very true, but I feel that we will miss out on Santo through our procrastination !
I think he’ll wait unless perhaps another prem team pull the trigger first
Good!