Opinion: David Moyes is boring but duo being linked with West Ham job simply aren’t fit to lace his boots

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David Moyes is boring but a duo being consistently linked with the West Ham job simply aren’t fit to lace his boots.

Lucas Paqueta, Jarrod Bowen, Mohammed Kudus, Said Benrahma, Maxwel Cornet, Emerson scream pace and skill.

James Ward-Prowse is capable of putting the ball on a six-pence, scoring worldie free-kicks, Tomas Soucek and his fellow West Ham giants are a constant menace aerially.

Watching West Ham should be like a fireworks show. But for much of the time it is like watching paint dry.

It may sound strange after winning and losing five-goal thrillers 3-2 in consecutive Premier League games.

But we cannot kid ourselves on, supporters – rightly or wrongly – have been making it clear they’re not happy with the football at times under David Moyes.

Moyes is boring fans

The general consensus among West Ham fans is that the team should be playing a much more exciting, attacking, expansive style of football with the players the manager has at his disposal.

Moyes has admitted himself he’s trying to transform that side of West Ham’s game.

The Hammers were booed off after the defeat to Everton, lambasted for the defeat at Brentford and even jeered off at half-time in the win over Forest with the score at 1-1.

West Ham started that game pressing high and playing on the front foot. Lo and behold it forced Forest into mistakes which gifted the Hammers the lead and could have seen them go 2-0 up.

Then Moyes reverted to his risk averse, low block looking to play on the counter attack. All that served to do was invite Forest onto them in a game that was comfortably there for the taking.

Hammers should be like a fireworks show

Look how much better West Ham played when they were forced to go for it after falling behind in the second half of Sunday’s game. After being bored to tears in the first half, West Ham fans responded to the change in approach.

A reporter with access to West Ham’s press conferences recently claimed Moyes has made the team boring to watch. And many fans concur.

But then Moyes has always been about substance over style. Occasionally you get a bit of both. At 60 years of age, though, it’s unlikely he’ll suddenly change his approach.

A Telegraph journalist recently proclaimed ‘when Moyes-ball doesn’t work, it really doesn’t work’. And he has a point.

Thankfully for West Ham since his return to the club in 2020, it has worked more often than it hasn’t.

Hammers News has it on good authority from the top source inside the club that Moyes is going nowhere. Not until the end of the season at least.

That hasn’t stopped the rumour mill whirring over potential replacements for the Scot.

Duo linked with job aren’t fit to lace Moyes’ boots

There’s no hiding Moyes is boring but a duo being linked with the West Ham job simply aren’t fit to lace his boots.

Moyes’ football much of the time is dull. But when it’s getting results, then it is justified to a degree.

West Ham are ninth in the Premier League, top of their Europa League group with knockout European football guaranteed for a third successive season for the first time in the club’s history. And they’re in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals too.

So it almost seems ridiculous to hear other managers being linked with Moyes’ job. That, though, tells you everything about how many fans are feeling about the entertainment value doesn’t it?

Boyhood Hammers fan turned Reims boss Will Still and West Ham academy graduate turned Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick have both been heavily linked as potential replacements for Moyes.

West Ham have status to attract a top modern, young boss

Taking a chance on one of those essentially rookie managers might pay off for West Ham. They might end up blowing people away by marrying a progressive, attacking style of football with results.

But they might not. Indeed the overwhelming probability is that they won’t. Then where will West Ham turn?

Kevin Nolan recently spoke out about the speculation surrounding Moyes’ future at West Ham saying it is ‘baffling’.

But it was something else he said that should perhaps be given more consideration by those in the ‘Moyes out’ camp.

“I think it’s probably the most stabilised the club’s been in a long, long time. I think what we’re doing at the minute is really good for the club,” Nolan said.

If Moyes is to depart at the end of the season with eyes on a more modern manager, then West Ham have to get serious over the replacement.

Next boss must bring style and substance

Any new manager needs to be more Roberto de Zerbi, Xabi Alonso or Thomas Frank than a Will Still or Michael Carrick.

They may have impressed at much smaller clubs but West Ham would be a different proposition entirely.

At the very, very least Moyes’ replacement is a decision which must not be rushed. West Ham have earned the status to be able to attract a leading, modern coach.

And Moyes has more than earned the right to be the man to lead us to a natural and amicable parting of the ways.

Then it is up to Tim Steidten and David Sullivan to make sure that, whoever the next boss is, they can bring new ideas while delivering the combination of style and substance Moyes seemingly cannot.

It’s not so much better the devil you know but more the devil in the detail for West Ham’s Moyes succession plan.

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