West Ham set for bumpy ride

Peter Crouch says West Ham will be in for a bumpy ride this season but should be OK and avoid relegation.

On Grady Diangana departure and Mark Noble’s tweet he added that the West Ham captain had courage to speak out and he respects him as it would have been easy to say nothing.

Crouch was speaking in his Daily Mail Ask Crouchie column when he said “They will be all right but I would say strap yourself in because it is going to be a bumpy ride. I don’t envisage West Ham being relegated with David Moyes in charge, he’s too experienced and will grind out the necessary results.

I’ve watched the situation over the last couple of weeks and I would say it took a fair bit of courage for Mark Noble to tweet his frustration over the sale of Grady Diangana to West Brom. The easy thing to do would have been to say nothing publicly and to bitch about it in the dressing room.

Someone from the board will have spoken to Noble about it, I’m absolutely certain. But fair play for him having the conviction to speak up. I don’t know a huge amount about Diangana, so I respect what Noble says. He is the link between players and fans.”