Three Daves roll dice on biggest gamble
In terms of gambles, David Sullivan and David Gold have rolled the dice on their biggest yet – failure will finish Moyes and plunge the club into the Championship which could see the owners them studying theirs.
Little point in gilding the lily here – that’s where we are at and none of the three are unrealistic enough to try denying the facts.
As I have written before, I believe Slaven Bilic should have been fired last summer and now Moyes has a “monster” job in steadying the ship that quite honestly has been rudderless though Bilic’s last few months.
Personally I believe we will be ok. I am optimistic enough to believe that Moyes has more than enough incentive and footballing nous to save his career long term at the club.
I also believe he is back at the size of club that suits him. Manchester United was never on and it was here that he became known as ‘Dave the Ditherer’ as he allegedly changed his mind on transfer targets daily.
With money no object, and so much available he found he had no experience of working in such a situation and possibly couldn’t handle it.
He’s not going to suffer that problem at West Ham is he?
He described his current situation as being similar to a loan player saying: ‘I have said it often enough about loan players. When you bring a loan player in, you get a chance to see him, if you think he is good enough you try and keep him,’ he said. ‘If you don’t, then he goes back to his parent club. No different for me now.’
No serious encouragement there is there? He needs to be back at the top of his form from Day One both on the training ground and in the transfer market if this club is to have the future it has always claimed is theirs.