On re-joining West Ham in January David Moyes promised to give West Ham United “no choice” but to extend his 18-month contract after returning for a second spell as manager.
Asked after returning to succeed Manuel Pellegrini if there were any hard feelings, Moyes said: “No, because things were done correctly – I wasn’t taken on and I was told that. I was disappointed, I’ve said that, but I’ve got another chance to go again.
I think it says a lot about the owners, they thought the job I did was good enough to give me another opportunity. This time I’m going to make it so there’s no choice but to renew. There’s a clause in there and I’m going to make it impossible to ignore that, that’s my plan.”
ClaretandHughsays: Retrospect is a word that says everything and nothing but there has never been any question that whilst David Moyes got a bum deal to be told: “Thanks but you are on your way” not too many were complaining. However, there were some who genuinely believed he should have been kept on although by and large most seemed excited at the prospect of Manchester City’s former boss arriving and being handed – in West Ham terms – the crock of gold at the end of a claret and blue rainbow. That went to prove that spending multi millions doesn’t necessarily buy success. Somebody once said: “Any fool can spend money but what matters is what you buy.” By comparison Moysie has spent very little and shown he knows exactly what he’s doing. Where might we have been had he remained in the job? Who knows but the future is looking a lot more exciting under him than it ever did Pellegrini.