David Moyes hopes the best is yet to come for him and West Ham amid testing times after two years of progress

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David Moyes says he hopes the best is yet to come for him and West Ham amid testing times after two years of progress.

Moyes finds himself under huge pressure at West Ham after overseeing a woeful Premier League campaign so far compared to the last two seasons.

They are seasons in which the Scot has been making history with the Hammers. In 2020-21 Moyes’ West Ham recorded their highest ever Premier League points total of 65, missing out on a Champions League spot by a solitary win and finishing sixth.

Last term saw a seventh place finish which secured European qualification – and indeed now last 16 European knockout football – in consecutive seasons for the first time in the club’s existence.

They are – justifiably – the reasons Moyes has been publicly backed by West Ham’s majority stakeholder David Sullivan to turn things around after the World Cup break.

But tensions are high given the context. The poor Premier League campaign comes against the backdrop of having spent a whopping £170m on eight new players in the summer.

The Hammers are two places and one point above the bottom three and have scored just 12 goals all season – the joint second worst in the top flight. And West Ham have also been sent crashing out of the League Cup at the first hurdle to Blackburn’s reserves.

The Hammers malaise is not new this season either. Moyes has overseen just 13 Premier League wins in West Ham’s last 42 games.

Club insiders have claimed Moyes must oversee a sharp upturn in results to save his job when domestic action resumes on Boxing Day night.

Moyes spoke out on seeing his stock fall among some West Ham fans in a national newspaper column last week.

Some feel the Hammers boss has taken the team as far as he can and a new voice is needed. Others believe he has more than earned the right to try and turn things around – especially having warned the owners and fans this season could prove tricky due to the big turnover in playing staff.

Now Moyes says he hopes the best is yet to come for him and West Ham amid testing times after two years of progress.

Speaking in a fan Q and A with Sky Sports’ Saturday Social, Moyes remains optimistic about the future.

“I’m ready (for the questions) but I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it, I have to say!” Moyes said in Sky Sports interview.

“Look, I’ve got to say I still believe I’ve got the best moment to come yet (in management), I really do.

“I think there’s better to come (from West Ham), hopefully there’s some cup wins along the way.

“I think on the journey (in my management career), qualifying for Europe with Everton – I finished fourth in the Premier League – with probably not anything like the budget of any of the other clubs – but it was a long journey, you know, five or six years to get to that point.

“I’ll always remember that.”

Those last comments very much feel like a message to the West Ham owners and fans that patience is needed for the team to progress to that next level.

How thin that patience wears very much depends on how West Ham perform when the Premier League returns from December 26th.

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