talkSPORT’s Alex Crook has made a wild, and quite frankly ridiculous, suggestion regarding who could replace David Moyes as West Ham manger, if he is indeed moved on at the end of the season.
Steve Cooper has just been sacked from Nottingham Forest, with the east Midlands outfit sitting just outside the relegation zone, whilst David Moyes has his West Ham team flying high in sixth spot in the Premier League table.
The Hammers have turned things around recently, after a really poor couple of months from September through until November, and Cooper is someone who was linked with replacing Moyes during that specific period.
At the time, it was a ridiculous shout. I’m far from a Moyes fan, but it’s hard to argue with what he’s achieved since returning to take over at West Ham for the second time four years ago.
However, it has been claimed that the club will move the 60-year-old on at the end of the 2023/24 season.
If David Sullivan is going to make a change in the managerial department, he absolutely should be targeting a big improvement on the Scot.
So with that in mind, the latest claim from talkSPORT really isn’t believable whatsoever…
West Ham could replace David Moyes
Alex Crook has told the Premier League All Access Podcast how Cooper could well be on the Hammers owners’ radar, should they decide to part ways with Moyes:
“He’s a project manager and it’s difficult to make Forest a project club. As I say, Forest fans are mourning Steve Cooper. He will walk into another job, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was Crystal Palace, keep an eye on West Ham as well based on what we’ve been saying about David Moyes and his long-term job prospects.”
This would be an absolutely disastrous move from the Hammers board, and I don’t even think that Cooper is a bad manager.
He’s just not as good as Moyes, and if we are to make genuine progress, the worst thing we can do is make a downgrade on the Scot.
Cooper spent plenty of money in charge of Forest, and whilst a lot of the players he signed probably weren’t his choices, he still should have done so much better at the City Ground, especially this season.
West Ham could replace Moyes at the end of the season, but if we do, Sullivan had better bring in a top-class manager to take over from the Scot.
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