Report: David Moyes wants to reunite with Forrest Gump

David Moyes wants to reunite with Everton defender Seamus Coleman according to the printed version of Sunday Mirror page 70.

It’s claimed that Moyes is a big admirer of Coleman, and now wants to bring him to West Ham before the October transfer deadline.

Moyes thinks Coleman has the ‘experience and leadership’ to solve West Ham’s defensive issues, and hopes Everton will be open to selling.

As Toffees boss in 2009, Moyes invested a fraction of his modest transfer budget in a 20-year-old Seamus Coleman from Sligo Rovers after being alerted to the Irishman’s potential by his scouting team.

Moyes at the time said: “Coleman had been in at Birmingham, Celtic, somewhere else, and nobody took him. We took him and he was £60,000.

“I used to think he was like Forrest Gump. He could run for fun. He went to Blackpool on loan and I used to go and watch him. He played outside-right and he wasn’t ready to be a full-back yet. Even though that’s what he was, he hadn’t learnt the art of defending. But boy could he run, he could put folk on the back foot because he was positive.”

At 31 years of age now he is hardly the young, hungry player that Moyes spoke of in his desire to build a RedBull model of recruitment

Coleman can play at right-back or a right side of midfield, he was also deployed as a right-sided centre back by Carlo Ancelotti.

At the time the defender said “I enjoyed it, it was something the manager worked on during the week – when we have the ball to drop into a back three.

“I was happy to do it. We did it for a few days in training and I really enjoyed it actually.”