Long term Claret and Hugh follower Dusty Miller looks at the Moyes factor and where the Hammers may go under his management.
By Dusty Miller
What has Moyes won in his career as a football manager – one trophy – the football community shield in 2013 and that’s it !
But he managed to stay in the Premiership with Everton for 11 years with keeping them often in the top half of the Premier League and that his he’s claim for fame in his words a winner and top coach ?
The team he nurtured at Everton were always hard to play against if not that attractive or entertaining. He kept the Everton board happy who weren’t big spenders.
But what Moyes had at Everton were players of British and Irish backgrounds and with of course a good youth system (Rooney) being one of his success stories, similar to Chris Wilding at Sheffield United today??
The point I’m making is if Moyes does continue as manager at West Ham what he will need to do with our current squad and is not going to take five minutes. The dead wood or the mercenaries in the last years of their careers have to go??
We need a new young team that’s hungry and want to come or play for the Hammers in the mould of Rice and Bowen?? Players like Anderson and the like need to find another mug team to take money under false pretences.
Facing facts, the whole of West Hams recruitment needs overhauling and if Moyes can’t do it try someone like Sean Dyche who uses home grown players at Burnley players with a sense of purpose and strength and hard to beat.
We need to go back to basics on recruitment and get the right people in top to bottom and if we do go down then we need to use that as a starting point for new beginnings and not carry on has we have done in the last 4 or 5 seasons buying players that are only in it for the money??
Keeping the faith
C.O.Y.I
totally agree rebuild team/squad with young hungry players, hopefully coming through the academy
As it has been commented we have to build the team from its roots once again. Patience is not something that many have in this get now pay later society and our younger supporters don’t remember what it took to win two FA Cups in the space of 5 years.
We had our ups and downs, but with the youth system we always had a basis on which we could build upon. The team had to become a long term project to get to those two FA cup wins.
John Lyall was a good manager but we were still relegated with him as well.
It would be a disaster getting relegated but if we do stay up we need to have a major shake up as though we have been relegated. A great manager Moyes is not but he’s a manager that is capable of building for the long term. Look what Pellegrini was. A luxury manager in a team spending too much too soon without taking care of the basics first.
Agree with all that , BUT the fans maybe patient with a capital P . Much of the deadwood we have signed is driven by fans clamouring for the club to sign big name players in every transfer window and consequently the board trying to appease the fans . We should all realise the only players we attract with big transfer fees, have largely been a big disappointment. I like the idea of hungry championship players like Bowen who put in a shift. But come the next transfer window we will probably have fans clamouring once again for big names with hefty fees and wages.
Totally agree with Dusty Millet but the trouble nowadays is it’s a business more than a sport, and teams buy big and expensive because they need results like now!
Also the fans have it in their heads that overpaid and overpriced big names make for a good team, when the realists out here know it doesn’t.
As said you need young, hungry good players that can be moulded into a tight well organized unit and if they have one bad game the social media fans need to get off everyone’s backs with their Professional Football Manager verdicts of how and why it should be done like this and that.
COYI.
In a perfect world the sentiment is correct . These players do not bleed claret and blue but it is the way the game has evolved because of the agents and money men . There is absolutely no chance of Sullivan and Gold investing in a youth policy just look at the young raw talent that has been passed on over the last few years . If people like Cullen ,Coventry , Holland and many others had been given a chance we would not now be watching dead wood like Noble etc playing every game and contributing nothing . The transfer policy and mamagerial selection have been the poorest in the country and the downward spiral of our once proud club will be dragged down into the mire .
I couldn’t agree more with Dusty’s sentiment, however, with the xxxx Brothers I am sad to say it is just a pipe dream.