David Moyes has fired a clear message to the owners about his West Ham squad with a grave warning that’ll make fans shudder.
After their summer business many declared this to be West Ham’s best ever squad.
Technical director Tim Steidten was regarded to have overseen one of the best transfer windows in the Premier League.
But many of West Ham’s performances have left a lot to be desired.
Especially when key Hammers players have been rested.
It only took one or two star men dropping out of the side against Fulham and Liverpool for the drop off to become clear for all to see.
Moyes fires clear message to owners about squad
West Ham have shipped 10 goals in those last two away games. And the truth is it could have been a lot more.
As we reported recently, West Ham do plan to be active in the January transfer window if they can sell fringe players to make space and satisfy FFP rules.
West Ham fans are furious with some of the performances they witnessed at Liverpool.
The likes of Ben Johnson, Said Benrahma, Pablo Fornals, Danny Ings, Konstantinos Mavropanos and others proved the drop off in quality in West Ham’s squad is far too steep. Indeed in some positions there is simply no back-up at all.
But if you thought that was bad, West Ham also have AFCON to contend with between January and February.
Now David Moyes has fired a clear message to owners about his West Ham squad with a grave warning.
Grave warning over what’s to come
And it will send a shudder down the spine of fans.
Because the Hammers boss says fans will be seeing a lot more of those bit-part players in the starting XI due to AFCON.
“We’re giving the players in the team opportunities, we’ve been questioned a bit about rotating, not rotating enough – well maybe people look at it and see ‘well maybe the manager is making the right choice because he’s playing the ones he thinks can get him the results’,” Moyes told West Ham’s media team after the game.
“We wanted to save some of the players… and we’re trying to find a way of giving those boys a breathing space somewhere.
“But we’re also trying to give the other boys who’ve not had a game the opportunity to show what they can do.
“You know again you can use the word rotate, we’ve not rotated that often – we did in the early games in Europe – and some of them our performances weren’t that good.
‘These are the players who are going to be involved’
“So we just need to see what we’ve got. But I’m going to need a lot of these boys over the busy period and African (Cup of) Nations for example players are going to go away. So these are the players who are going to be involved in the coming weeks and months.”
That is a clear message to David Sullivan and his fellow co-owners – as well as Steidten – from the manager.
And it says ‘this is what we’ve got’ if we don’t improve the squad in January.
On this evidence that is now an absolute necessity if West Ham are going to achieve anything of note this season.
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